Algeria: Workers dismissed from 'Beko' protest

Last Sunday, workers of Tunisian-Algerian 'Beko', a specialist in household appliances, blocked the national road number 44 to its level leading to Tunisia.

The workers rallied to protest against the authorities who still have not solved the problem of lifting the freeze of the import of raw materials needed for the manufacture of household appliances (manufactured at the headquarters of the company with Tunisian-Algerian capital) and explained that the freeze in question led the company to lay off dozens of workers and civil servants last August.

The protesters called on the authorities to intervene in order to free the import of raw materials in order to preserve their wages and have, in this context, recalled that the economic life of several border towns depends on the continuity of the company's activities.