The civils servant and government officials affiliated to the Union Syndicale des Travailleurs de Centrafrique USTC and the coordination of the trade-union power stations, were put in strike since more than one month.They claimed the improvement of their living and working conditions. The thorn-bush problem which touches all the civils servant it is that of the payment of at least three or four months of their retroactive pays. To recall, it should be mentioned that the civils servant of the public sector; add up approximately eight months of retroactive pays under the current leaders, without counting the arrears accumulated unders the two preceding modes.
This strike which is not the first of the kind, cruelly affected all the significant sectors such as finances, education and health. Following that, the school establishments whose opening of the doors was planned for September 17, 2007 always remained closed so far. The hospitals and the centers of health function in an irregular way.
In order to evaluate the impact of their movement, these civils servant met on Saturday September 29, 2007 in a general assembly. During this meeting, they wer satisfied with the full success of their movement, almost observed in all the government departments. However, they did not fail to deplore the behavior of some compatriots who did not respect the watchword of the strike. To end with, they had all the firm resolution to continue their fight until the satisfaction of their claims. As a whole, it should be said that, the major concern of the people is to give them their daily bread.
The government, however, did not cease multiplying the efforts to answer the complaints of the workers. Thus, a meeting took place in the night of October 4, 2007 gathering a Cabinet led by her excellence Mr the Prime Minister and persons in charge of the movement.
Out of this meeting, the Government was committed paying two months of wages to the civils servant, two months of grants to the students and two quarters of pension to the pensioners. This decision was automatically put into application the hours which followed the reading of the joint official statement read by the spokesman of the Government.
The banks of the place, encased the step and started to serve their customers. The life seems to start again with the resumption of the activities in nearly all the sectors.