KWD 40? The Cost of Keeping Your Country Clean
Yesterday, I posted about the cleaners’ strike. An update in the Arab Times today says the issue has been resolved:
Of the 5,000 Bangladeshi cleaners, who had gone on strike on Sunday, many went back to work Monday after the company cleared their two months’ back pay, says Shariar Siddiky, the Labour Attache at the Bangladesh embassy. Siddiky was unable to provide the exact number of workers who returned to work, but added that over 5,000 cleaners had stopped working, accusing their company of flouting the contract. He added that cleaners working at the health and the defense ministries resumed work and the embassy is exerting efforts to find a solution to the problems of workers employed with other establishments. The workers of the above two ministries, who were being paid KD 18 salary earlier, will now receive KD 40.
On the one hand, it’s good that they bumped up their salaries 220%. On the other, aren’t their services worth more than KWD 40? Keep in mind that only the workers at the Health & Defense Ministries got a pay hike. The workers at other Ministries will have to wait to see their issue resolved.
In other strike news, the Kuwait Times reported there was a gas station workers strike. Did it affect you?
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these people are so poor man it kills me to read about things like this… 40 KD! el 7amdellah for what we get
7esbe allah 3alaihum
thats just heart breaking!
Didn’t affect me, i pump my own gas.. more over they dont have help in Salmiys station near Jawazath.
i didnt even notice, bs i did hear abt it ena they will stop giving governmental contracts to companies who dont pay their employees, which is a good thing.
Outside Kuwait street/park cleaners usually earn between $20000 and $35000 per year.