Giant steel company “Arcellor Mittal” workers to oust their general manager

Some 5 thousand employees of the giant steel company “Arcellor Mittal” in Annaba (east of Algiers) Friday marched in a feint funeral procession entitled “ The emperor’s funerals” to express their anger against Aissa Meadi.

• The protesters who answered the call of the Union’s president Smail Kouadria gathered inside the complex and brought a coffin on which they wrote “ the death of the emperor”  and marched through the different pavilions calling for an immediate departure of Aissa Menadi and his acolytes.
• For his part, the Union’s President Smail Kouadria addressed the angry crowd and took the veil on some irregularities and abuses inside their company revealing that the general manager’s son benefited from huge sums of money over the last two years adding that he had evidences on the subject.
• Meanwhile, the employees assigned M. Kouadria to conduct negotiations on their behalf with the company’s managers slated for the upcoming July. Thousands of outraged employees demanded professional and social rights including salaries’ rise and other incentives.