TRANSPORT EMPLOYEES IN ADEN, LAHJ & ABYAN GO ON STRIKE. [Archives:2000/32/Local News]

More than 800 employees and workers of the state establishment for Land Transport, Aden branch, went on a general strike last Thursday and stopped work at buses and trucks in protest to delay in paying their salaries, social security rights and also the rights of dead employees.
Mr. Mohammed Ali Saad, President of Aden-branch Transport Trade Union Committee said workers’ families demanded solutions for their just demands as they were on the brink of hunger and displacement. They have censured officials in Aden Province of negligence over their grievances.
Meanwhile workers at the establishment’s branches Lahj and Abyan provinces, suffering from the same problems, have joined Aden workers in their demands.
Officials at the Sana’a-based General Confederation of Republic Workers’ Unions and also the General Transport Union have been mediating with the Ministry of Transport officials in Sana’a to solve the problems and pay their past 8 months wages. A move which led to the suspension of any strike till August 15 as a last chance.

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