About
3,000 Kuwait customs employees ended a two-day strike on Wednesday, after being
promised by the Gulf Arab state’s government that their demands will be met, a
union official said.
The
strike, part of a wave of strikes by many government worker after the cabinet
approved last month better employment conditions for oil sector workers, halted
vessel traffic in and out of Kuwaiti ports on Monday, including at least five
oil tankers.
“The
strike has been suspended after officials understood our demands and promised
to meet them,” Ahmed al-Enezi, the head of Kuwait customs employees union,
said on Wednesday.
Sources said
on Tuesday that oil shipments from the OPEC member and world’s sixth-largest
oil exporter started moving, after port clearance for the stranded ships was
obtained after delays.
Kuwait’s
cabinet that it had appointed a committee headed by the country’s interior
minister to take all necessary measures to run all state businesses that may be
impacted by the strike, state news agency KUNA reported.
In late
September, Kuwaiti Central Bank employees held a demonstration while employees
of the Kuwait Stock Exchange agreed to delay a planned strike and gave
authorities three weeks to meet their demands.
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