VOL. XLI

No. 36

7-September-1998

YEMEN

Hunt/Exxon Workers Stage Strike; Four Workers Arrested

A one-day strike staged by about 1,300 employees and workers of Yemen Hunt Oil Companyon 1 September - which operates the producing Marib-Jawf concession (block 18) and a smallrefinery in central Yemen held jointly by Hunt/Exxon - was called off for a period of onemonth after the government arrested four of the workers for inciting the industrialaction. According to an official representing the union,...