Labor Watch - On Sunday, a number of truck owners who transport cement carried out a protest in front of Al Rajhi Cement Factory in Mafraq protest against the reduction of cement prices.
The cement transporters clarified that they have affected by the reduction in prices of cement where the low prices lead to reducing the quantities of manufacturing and supply to the local market, which affected the procurement, sales and transport of truck owners and affected them and their returns and causing a partial recession in their work, In addition to laying off a number of workers by the Lafarge company in line with the low price of cement locally, which caused heavy losses.
The owners of trucks asked the five manufacturers of cement to agree on a unified price, and non-speculate in prices between companies to exclude one the another and take it out of the market, which has economic and negative reflections for employees who are working in those factories and transporters at the same time, and they are warning of taking escalatory steps if there will be no responding to their demands and increasing their losses.