Moroccan Pilots’ Union Dissolution Challenged: Legal Battle with Royal Air Maroc Continues

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Moroccan Pilots' Union Dissolution Challenged: Legal Battle with Royal Air Maroc Continues

After the verdict pronouncing the dissolution of the Moroccan Association of Airline Pilots, the pilots’ lawyers want to appeal and challenge the decision. Hope seems allowed for the pilots gathered within the AMPL, as the action for nullity targeting all the agreements signed between RAM and the AMPL is deemed inadmissible by the court of first instance of Casablanca.

All is not yet lost for the airline pilots, reports Le360. According to the judge in charge of the case, he did not rule on the nullity action because the plaintiff did not "present the agreements targeted by this request". This refusal by the judge does not mean that the request for nullity would be unfounded, it is indicated.

Faced with this situation, the pilots have two possibilities: to appeal and defend the principle of the "fruit of the poisoned tree" according to which the agreements signed by a dissolved association would in turn be null and void, or to file a new request and list all the acts signed between the AMPL and RAM.

While Royal Air Maroc has not yet decided on the continuation of the trial, the lawyers of the AMPL want to appeal. "Would calling members of an association to reflect on the idea of a strike be prohibited by law, to the point of opening the right to dissolution? Today, there is no text that gives the exclusive exercise of the right to strike to unions," laments Me Zakaria Mrini, lawyer for the AMPL. "We welcome the judgment as it is. We will appeal as soon as possible, having full confidence in the justice of our country," he adds.