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High Fuel Prices May Spark General Strike in Sierra Leone

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16 July, 2005

Another general strike over the price of fuel may occur in neighbouring Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone Labour Congress has called on its government to rescind a late October price hike—the third fuel price hike in nine months—or face a strike. “Most industrial firms and employers depend on generators. Which invariably affects cost of production with a high probability for redundancy for workers and high process for products,” the national center said in a release last week.