Collective Action

Tank owners and fuel distributors strike and gather outside the Ministry of Energy to protest the decision to standardise fuel tanks

وطنية - أفادت غرفة التحكم المروري عن تجمع عدد من الصهاريج على أوتوستراد الرئيس لحود بالاتجاهين أمام وزارة الطاقة وحركة المرور كثيفة في المحلة.

A number of tankers gathered on the main Lahoud highway in both directions in front of the Energy Ministry’s headquarters on Tuesday as a one-day strike called by tank owners and fuel distributors got underway. The gathering caused a traffic jam in the area, the Traffic Control Center reported. The strike was announced on Thursday in response to a demand by the ministry’s Petroleum Directorate that the tanks on these vehicles be standardized. The tank owners say that to do so would create unsustainable additional costs. The Petroleum Directorate at the Energy Ministry urged truckers to homogenize tanks’ capacity since 2019 in an attempt to limit fraud, according to the General Confederation of Lebanese Workers head Bechara al-Asmar. However, truckers oppose this measure saying that it burdens them with additional costs.

Date: 
March 22, 2022
Actors/ Mobilising structures: 
Workers group (inc.union, syndicate, etc.)
Multi-organisational field (collaboration, allies) : 
N/A
Mode of Action: 
Road blockade
Strike
Objective: 
Protest of a policy/ governmental measure/ etc.
Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA: 
Policy Grievances
Spatial characteristics: 
Location on the Lebanese territory
Frequency: 
One off
State response: 
N/A

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Village Name: 
Corniche El Naher
Local Name: 
Achrafieh
Caza: