Byآ Reem Nafie First Published:آ Juneآ 30,آ 2008 CAIRO: Telecom Egypt’s transmission engineers reportedly went on strike in several governorates on Sunday, objecting to the discrepancies in salaries between engineers within the company, press reports said on Monday. According to Al-Masry Al-Youm daily newspaper, engineers sent an internal email calling for a strike, which brought work to a halt at the Ramses, Tanta, Alexandria, Suez and Sharqeya call centers. They claimed that their salaries were only LE 1,000, when other engineers got paid up to LE 15,000. The engineers on strike did not call for pay raises toآ match the salaries of employees in private telecom companies, instead saying “we want to at least get paid as much as the engineers in the [company’s] IT department.†Sources inside the government-owned...
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