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18 April, 2012
On the morning of April 16, 2012 thousands of Palestinian workers demonstrated in front of the Palestinian cabinet offices to demand passage of the law of the minimum wage as well as lower prices of consumer goods and increased basic support. At the head of the demonstration was the PGFTU Secretary General, Shaher Saad, together with leaders of other PGFTU unions including Mohammed Abu Adwan, Secretary General of the ICEM affiliated Petrochemical Workers Union. The demonstration followed a union-researched comprehensive and in-depth study on the situation of workers and the scale of the suffering which they suffer in the light of the rapidly deteriorating economic and social conditions compounded by prohibitively high prices throughout Palestine.
