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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Tarek Amara

Tunisia union threatens to 'occupy the streets,' rejects 2023 budget

FILE PHOTO: The head of UGTT union, Noureddine Taboubi, speaks during a joint news conference with Minister of Employment Nasreddine Nsibi in Tunis, Tunisia November 15, 2021. REUTERS/Jihed Abidellaoui

Tunisia's powerful UGTT union will hold mass protests and "occupy the streets" soon to show its rejection of next year's austerity budget, the leader of the union said on Monday, in its strongest challenge to the government of President Kais Saied yet.

The union, with more than a million members, has proven able to paralyse the economy with strikes. It has at times backed Saied after he seized most powers last year, but on other occasions has voiced opposition.

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