Jordan -Workers at the Lafarge Cement Factory protested to claim annual and extraordinary increases and end of service benefits or early retirement. Protesters carried out a protest in a tent erected inside the company headquarters, in preparation for escalating to a strike, to achieve demands that they have been asking for time saying that their demands is legitimate but have not been implemented. The head of the general union for construction workers in Jordan Mahmoud al-Hayari said that a meeting was held by representatives of the workers and the management of the cement company in Amman, but did not result in anything, pointing to the intransigence of the parent company. Al-Hayari said that the employees of the cement company in Al-Rashadiyah after the results of this disappointing meeting are authorized to take what they deem appropriate to continue the sit-in and stop working. He said the company had confirmed that workers will get their annual increases by the end of the month, while the demands for early retirement incentives would be reduced by the company and would not be the same which included about 2,400 workers.
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