Hourly workers march on presidential palace demanding pay rises

Hourly paid government employees marched from the finance ministry to the presidential palace on Wednesday morning chanting slogans including ‘No to Starvation Salaries’ and ‘End the Mockery, we are not Second-Class Workers’.

The workers, who started a 24-hour strike at midnight, gathered at 10am at the finance ministry and marched to the presidential palace where they handed over a memorandum to the president, requesting his intervention in an agreement on salaries and working conditions, in...