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Amal Khalil wrote in the Al-Akhbar newspaper:
For the fourth day in a row, workers at the Sidon waste sorting plant continued their strike, demanding an increase in their wages following deteriorating living conditions. The strike at the Siniq factory was reflected in and around the city, where piles of waste accumulated, after workers prevented the company “NTCC” in charge of collecting and transporting the waste from entering the factory premises.
The mayor of Sidon and the Union of Municipalities of Saida Al-Zahrani Muhammad Al-Saudi announced, during his visit to the factory, the start of waste collection, accompanying the security forces, “because it is not allowed that waste are piled up in the streets in the face of the Corona pandemic ”, asking the workers to“ understand and not obstruct the entry of the mechanisms ”that TCC».
Regarding the demands for which the workers went on strike, informed sources confirmed to “Al-Akhbar” that the measure “was promoted by the plant’s operating company (IBC), which tried to pressure the state to calculate the price of a treated waste ton of $ 95, at an exchange rate of 3900 pounds and not based on the official exchange rate you are currently receiving. In this context, the Saudi referred to his meeting last Tuesday with Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni and his intention to meet with the governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon to discuss the agreement that was carried out between the Lebanese state and the contractors in the city of Beirut, so the payment would be based on an exchange rate of 3,900 pounds per dollar and applied to the agreement to operate the Sidon waste plant. The Saudi said that Wazni “took note of the matter and will seek to make the appropriate decision with the cabinet and the governor of the Bank of Lebanon.”
Activists from the “Saida Uprising” movement dumped quantities of rubbish in front of the municipality building in Nejmeh Square, protesting the garbage crisis. Representative Osama Saad contacted both the Saudi prosecutor and the southern appellate prosecutor, Judge Raheef Ramadan, and the director of the NTCC, to demand that the accumulated debris be removed before the rains fell on the piles. of waste.
While the former mayor, Abdul Rahman Al-Bizri, lamented the recurrence of the waste crisis “over and over again, despite the tens of millions of dollars that have been and continue to be spent to address this thorny issue, which It seems that it has not been approached in the right way and it did not gain full transparency. “
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