EDL and Service Provider Workers Hold Sit-in

Contract workers of Electricite du Liban and service providers staged a sit-in at the state-run firm's headquarters in Beirut's Mar Mikhael area on Saturday to protest the dismissal of 62 KVA company workers.

The contract workers committee issued a statement asking the management of KVA, a private company, to give the 62 individuals back their jobs.

It warned that it would activate labor movements starting Saturday to “topple the plan of service providers.”

The statement urged politicians to speed up the approval of an urgent draft-law on the employment of the contract workers.

It also urged the management of SP -service providing companies - to “withdraw the intruding workers and mainly foreigners who have been trained by contract workers.”

The committee issued another warning that it would take unprecedented escalatory measures.