Unhonoured agreements, closed dialogue: teachers prepare their response
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Business News
The General Federation of Secondary Education of Tunisia called, in a letter dated 9 November 2026 addressed to the secretaries-general of its regional unions, for general assemblies to be held in schools throughout the month of November, ahead of a first day of protest on Friday 4 December 2026. The gatherings will be held inside educational establishments, according to the federation, which said their arrangements would be defined with the regional unions.
The federation justified the call by what it described as an attack on trade union rights and on the rights of teachers, as well as by the failure to honour signed agreements and the closing of the doors of dialogue and negotiation. It said it wanted to give teachers a voice at the general assemblies, to gather their concerns and to sound out their positions, before deciding on the next steps.
The federation presented the gatherings of 4 December as a first stage of a protest movement whose subsequent forms would be decided by the competent union bodies. It invoked the memory of Farhat Hached, founder of the Tunisian trade union movement, and reserved the right to resort to various forms of mobilisation.
