Cellcom Guinea workers launch indefinite general strike over 45 layoffs
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Mosaiqueguinee
Cellcom Guinea workers began an indefinite general strike on Thursday 12 November, with no minimum service, to protest management’s decision to place 45 employees on technical leave. The union’s secretary-general, Alexandre Niambalamou, denounces unpaid wages since 2023, according to Mosaiqueguinee.
Cellcom Guinea workers launched an indefinite general strike on Thursday 12 November 2026 to protest the announced placement of 45 employees on technical leave out of a total workforce of 87, reports Mosaiqueguinee. The action, decided at a general meeting, calls on union members to stop going to their workplaces, unlike previous strikes during which minimum service was maintained.
Alexandre Niambalamou, secretary-general of the Cellcom Guinea union delegation, accuses management of seeking to impose the measure without consultation with the labour inspectorate. Union representatives also contest the conditions set out in the technical leave notice and are asking employees not to sign it, while discussions are under way with the inspectorate.
The union official says the 45 employees concerned discovered, when they reported for work, that their access to the offices had been blocked and their computer accounts deactivated. He also denounces recurring delays in the payment of wages since the current management took office in 2023. According to him, the employees' initial demands mainly concerned the regular payment of their wages.
