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Kuwait Oil Workers Union Rejects Minister Appeal To Cancel Strike
The Kuwait oil workers union Saturday turned down an appeal from Kuwait's acting oil minister to call off a strike in protest of possible pay cuts and to accept negotiations. Anas al-Saleh, in a statement cited , urged workers to "give priority to the public interest and resort to reason and wisdom by sitting at the negotiations table."
The union, however, immediately rejected the minister's call as offering nothing new and said the strike will go ahead from Sunday morning. "The strike will go ahead as planned," union chief Saif al-Qahtani said, holding oil companies and the minister responsible for the strike and the potential losses from it.
State-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (KPC) on Thursday reviewed "maximum" contingency plans in the face of the total strike threatened by oil workers. Kuwait planned to deploy national guard units to run and protect some oil facilities during the strike, according to the Gulf News.
Hit by the sharp drop in crude prices on world markets, Kuwait is introducing a new payroll scheme for all public employees and wants to include the country's 20,000 oil workers, which would mean an automatic cut in wages and incentives.
KPC said the workers union had boycotted negotiations called for Thursday by the Social Affairs and Labour Ministry. KPC had offered to "suspend" all spending cuts if the union agreed to join a committee to negotiate a settlement.
The union is also protesting plans to privatise parts of the oil sector.
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SOURCE : IIK
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