Dakar – Yesterday evening, in Dakar, Senegal, the Italian confederation USB and its Senegalese counterpart UDTS (Union démocratique des travailleurs du Sénégal) signed a bilateral agreement to promote collaboration between the two trade union organizations for the protection of Senegalese and Italian citizens, workers and pensioners. Aboubakar Soumahoro, a member of the National Executive of the USB confederal, and Mariéma Ba Konate, the secretary general of UDTS. The agreement wants to “concretely and in a consistent manner improve cooperative relations between the USB and the UDTS”, and intends to “lay the foundations for a concrete model of international solidarity, collaboration and cooperation”. Among the first effects of the agreement is the opening of information, assistance and guidance points offering trade union and legal advice, both in Rome and in Dakar. The USB union expressed strong satisfaction with the agreement, which “is an important step for the development of international trade union alliances”. (9Colonne)
