Yemen national airline employees end strike

SANAA, Yemen?? Employees of Yemen's national airline, Yemenia Airways, ended a two-day strike Thursday after the country's new transport minister suspended the company's director over accusations of corruption.

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There has been a growing trend of strikes, involving industrial workers, students and even soldiers after the swearing in of a new national unity government this month. That followed the agreement of longtime Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down after months of protests.

The strikers have generally called for dismissal of longtime Saleh loyalists or officials perceived as corrupt.

The pilots union welcomed the decision of the transport minister to strip the authority of Abdel-Khalq al-Qadhi over the airline, calling it "brave." He is Saleh's son-in-law.

Thousands of striking workers wanted to see him put on trial over charges he misused the company's assets and drove it into bankruptcy.

The strike stopped all flights in and out of the country's two main airports, in the capital Sanaa and the southern port of Aden.

In other labor actions around the country, workers at a large cement factory in Hodeida have been on strike for three days, demanding the factory head be replaced for embezzling assets.

In a rare strike in the country's military, hundreds of soldiers from a brigade in the southern al-Daleh province prevented their commander from entering the camp, accusing him of corruption. The soldiers encircled the camp with armored vehicles, and soldiers to prevent the major general, a member of Saleh's tribe, from entering.

A defense ministry official, speaking on condition anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters, said negotiations with battalion officers were under way to resolve the crisis.

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