By Sami Zaptia.
Tripoli, 10 May:
Well over . . .[restrict]a week into the strike that has stopped the Tripoli-based government-owned presses from printing the overwhelming majority of newsprint in Western Libya, and there is no sign of the industrial impasse coming to a resolution.
The strike by state employees at the presses over improved conditions and pay has forced Tripoli’s daily newspapers Febrayer (February) and Libya to print in Tunis and ship to Libya at great cost and inconvenience. Whilst Libya has kept its price of 0.25 LD, Febrayer has been forced to put its price up to 0.50 LD.
Yesterday, Wednesday, the spokesperson at the government’s official weekly press conference, Nasser Al-Mana, said that ‘the government was looking into this and that a decision will be taken soon’. [/restrict]
