Transport Unions will go on strike Thursday
The General Labor Confederation (GLC), farmers and the public-transport unions in Lebanon have decided to go on strike Thursday to press the government for their demands.
The Union said public transport and taxi drivers will not work on Thursday.
The Union promised that the strike will be peaceful and no demonstrations or road closures will take place during the one-day strike.
The trade unions are divided along political lines and cannot therefore agree on the issues and actions required to resolve them and for this reason not all the taxi drivers will join the strike Trade unions that are closely associated with the ruling majority rejected the call for the strike and called instead for use of dialogue to resolve the issues.
School busses will be participating in the strike but the universities and schools will remain open as usual on Thursday according to Mr. Kabbani, Minster of Education
Separately the Catholic schools have also declared that they will be open on Thursday as usual.
Banks and all financial retail outlets will be open as usual on Thursday
The bakeries union will not be participating in the strike and will therefore operate the bakeries as usual and therefore there is no need to rush to buy bread according to the Union of bakery owners.