Collective Action

Ogero employees and workers in Tyre are continuing their open strike demanding salary scale wages, the National News Agency reported Wednesday.

Although the workers were present in their offices, they refused to work, saying they would continue to protest until their demands were met.

The salary scale law, passed by Parliament in July, mandated an increase in wages for all public sector workers. However, the law has not been fully implemented.

Ogero’s executive board began holding strikes on Feb. 15, after the Finance Ministry failed to approve a draft salary scale adjustment for Ogero workers that was endorsed by the Telecommunications Ministry and submitted more than a month ago.

Although the executive board later called to end the strike, protests are ongoing in different branches of Ogero’s offices across the country.

Ogero runs and manages all of the country’s landlines and provides internet services.