Electricity workers shut down offices across #Lebanon
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Part-time electricity workers shut their offices and blocked roads across Lebanon on Monday to warn legislatures against back tracking on a 2012 agreement to grant them full-time contracts. Dozens of workers set tires ablaze at doors of state-run Electricite Du Liban’s (EDL) headquarters in Beirut’s Mar Mikhael neighborhood, and briefly shut down the Dora highway, causing heavy delays for morning commuters. Labor minister Sejaan Azzi visited the workers at their headquarters in a bid to get them to call off the protests, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) said. read more