Collective Action
Ogero workers start an open-ended strike nationwide to demand a salary increase and transportation allowances
Phone and social media customer services at the state-run telecommunications company Ogero halted Tuesday after the Ogero workers’ union announced a strike, the company tweeted. The Ogero workers are demanding a salary increase in light of the rising cost of living, the General Confederation of Lebanese Workers clarified.
Announcing their solidarity with Ogero employees, the General Confederation of Lebanese Workers said in a statement published on state-run National News Agency that the strike was triggered by the “government’s continued neglect of the union’s demands, especially the failure to amend Article 49 of the Telecommunications Law No. 431 on the fate of 2,500 families who live from this vital sector.” The General Confederation of Lebanese Workers added that it supports “these just demands for allocating the necessary funds to run the sector and pay salaries to redress [wages of] employees and day-to-day workers, and apply laws and decrees to add transportation fees in light of a suffocating crisis affecting various categories of workers in Lebanon.”
وطنية - مرجعيون - أقفل مكتب "أوجيرو" في مرجعيون ابوابه التزاما للاضراب المعلن من قبل نقابة موظفي الهيئة.
وطنية - بعلبك - أفاد مندوب "الوكالة الوطنية للإعلام" عن تنفيذ موظفي هيئة "أوجيرو" باقسامها كافة في بعلبك الإضراب، ورغم حضورهم إلى مراكز عملهم أقفلوا الأبواب الخارجية وامتنعوا عن استقبال معاملات المواطنين، أو تقاضي رسوم فواتير الهاتف الثابت او القيام بالخدمات البريدية في قسم "ليبان بوست".