Collective Action
Ogero workers hold wage strike in Sidon
Employees of state-run telecoms giant Ogero held a strike in Sidon Thursday in protest of their wage stagnation, in the latest development in a months-long dispute.
The strike reportedly took place in all of Ogero’s Sidon branches and in other areas of southern Lebanon after workers’ wages remained largely unchanged despite the passage of a salary hike for public sector workers last year.
Workers also blocked the entrance to the regional Ogero headquarters in the center of Sidon, defying calls to end the strike by the company’s executive board, which had held strikes earlier this month.
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, the executive board began holding strikes on Feb. 15 and 16. The strikes have continued since then, after workers’ demands remained unmet.