Saudi sanatorium staff strike over delinquent wages
A record print of an expat working. PHOTO: AFP
RIYADH: Staff during a sanatorium in eastern Saudi Arabia have left on strike over delinquent wages, workers pronounced Monday, in a kingdom’s latest box of corporate financial difficulties.
“We are on strike,” a helper during Saad Specialist Hospital in a Gulf seashore city of Al-Khobar told AFP by telephone.
“We didn’t accept any income for three-and-a-half months,” she said, reluctant to be identified out of fear of being fired.
She pronounced a sanatorium is partial of Saad Group, whose website says a Saudi-based organisation runs “diversified businesses” in a Gulf and has investments around a world.
The financial and construction firm tranquil by Saudi billionaire Maan al-Sanea done a high-profile and hostile separate from another Saudi business group, a Algosaibi family, in a arise of a 2008-2009 tellurian financial crisis.
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Saudi construction firms have been quite tough strike this year, with tens of thousands of employees left unpaid.
Sources in Mar told AFP that behind profits from a government, whose oil revenues have slumped over a past dual years, had left employees of a kingdom’s construction giants struggling.
“The sanatorium doctors and nurses are on strike,” a sanatorium confidence workman reliable to AFP.
A orator for Saad Specialist Hospital could not immediately be reached for comment.
The helper told AFP that “almost all” a medical staff, that includes about 1,200 nurses, have assimilated a strike movement in a nation where work unions are banned.
Lower-paid housekeeping and confidence staff have been paid and sojourn during work, she said.
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“They betrothed us, after Eid we will accept your salaries though we didn’t,” a helper said, referring to Muslim holidays final week.
About 100-150 sanatorium workers stood outward a sanatorium on Monday morning as partial of a walkout.
They also designed to revisit a internal governor’s bureau to state their grievances, and if that brings no formula they would continue a pursuit movement on Tuesday, a helper said.
Only out-patient clinics are sealed during a strike and obligatory cases are not endangered, she said.
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