The National Cement Company workers entered into an open-ended, last week, protesting against the 75 percent cut on their salaries and asking for the payment of the incentive rate that reduced wages to 25 percent.
Contrary to the claims made by the Ministry of Labor Sector in a statement, the workers asserted that their average wages did not exceed 12 000 pounds, and that there were workers who worked in the company for 10 to 15 years, whose salaries became so small, after the deduction of the installments of loans received from banks.
The workers' protests come amidst a critical situation for the company, which is due to the absence of governance and mismanagement, whose debts in the oil and electricity sectors amounted to 3.7 billion pounds, according to union sources.
The workers had earlier protests to ask for the activation of the suspended production lines, which stopped following the decision of the General Assembly of the Holding Company for Chemical Industries late last November, in light of news about the efforts of many parties to weaken this old public institution of bankruptcy and disruption of production in order to sell it.
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