REPORT: EDL contract workers stage fresh sit-in

24 April 2017 English
Electricite du Liban (EDL) contract workers staged on Monday a sit-in outside the Ministry of Energy to protest state’s failure to give them full-time tenure.
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A number of workers headed to the Ministry of Energy on the Emile Lahoud Boulevard in Metn to prevent Minister of Energy Cesar Abi Khalil from entering his office.

 

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The contract workers burnt tires, causing suffocating traffic.

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