Collective Action
Employee groups demand payment of workers’ salaries
A national federation of labor unions (FENASOL) and representatives from Sultan Center - a large retail company - discussed how the rights of workers can be protected following Sultan Center’s August downsizing announcement. Sultan Center – a Kuwait-based company known in Lebanon for its upscale TSC supermarket chain – has reportedly not paid their employees for several months. After the meeting, the two groups decided to hold a sit-in in front of Sultan Center’s offices. The sit-in was moved to the Kuwaiti Embassy given the lack of administrative presence at the offices, and their failure to respond to requests for workers’ salaries to be paid.
Date:
October 13, 2017
Actors/ Mobilising structures:
Workers group (inc.union, syndicate, etc.)
Multi-organisational field (collaboration, allies) :
N/A
Mode of Action:
Sit-in
Objective:
Protest of a policy/ governmental measure/ etc.
Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA:
Access to socio-eco rights
Spatial characteristics:
Location on the Lebanese territory
Frequency:
N/A
State response:
N/A