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Télé-Liban employees announce one-day strike

BEIRUT — Employees of the state-owned television channel Télé-Liban will go on a one-day strike on Wednesday to demand an increase in their salaries and social aid to enable them to cope with the country’s ongoing economic crisis, the state-owned National News Agency reported.

Here’s what we know:

    • The channel’s employees’ union announced the strike in a press release, saying that while it continues the channel’s entire program production chain will be suspended for both live programs or television news, except for coverage carried out from the Presidential Palace, the Grand Serail, Parliament and the evening news. The union has called on all employees to show up to their workplace to join its demonstrations during the strike.

    • The union also said that it refuses the “carrot and stick policy” of certain officials in the face of the employees’ demands, which include “an immediate” salary increase, social assistance and schooling grants for their children, as well as the finalization of the specifications for the call for tenders aimed at contracting new insurance for employees.

    • In early May, now caretaker Information Minister Ziad Makary announced the organization of a telethon to help revitalize the channel; this event is scheduled to take place in June. 

BEIRUT — Employees of the state-owned television channel Télé-Liban will go on a one-day strike on Wednesday to demand an increase in their salaries and social aid to enable them to cope with the country’s ongoing economic crisis, the state-owned National News Agency reported.Here’s what we know:     • The channel’s employees’ union announced the strike in a press release,...