Collective Action
Telecommunications Ministry employees across various parts of Lebanon, including Tripoli, Akkar, and Saida, stage sit-ins asking the Finance Ministry to settle their outstanding salaries.
BEIRUT — Telecommunications Ministry employees across various parts of Lebanon, including Tripoli, Akkar and Saida, staged sit-ins Tuesday morning to demand the Finance Ministry settle their outstanding salaries, L'Orient Today's correspondent in the North reported.
In a statement released on Monday, the workers warned they would observe a strike "in protest against the Finance Ministry's withholding of their salaries for three months now, and to demand a quick solution to it."
In Halba, Akkar governorate, telecomms employees arrived at their jobs Tuesday morning only to close their sales offices and said they would refrain from any technical or administrative work, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent.
In Saida, South Lebanon, employees of the Lebanese state-owned telecoms operator Ogero also staged a sit-in in solidarity with "their colleagues in the Telecommunications Ministry" to demand their salaries, L'Orient Today's correspondent in the South reported.