TPCC Workers, not employees, sentenced to prison over sit-in -statement

CLARIFICATION-Tourah Portland Cement Company (TPCC) sent us a statement explaining that the 32 workers who were sentenced to prison for a sit in on company premises were never TPCC employees. They were employees of a private security firm contracted for services on the TPCC plant. The private security firm’s contract with TPCC expired on 30 April 2017 and TPCC contracted a new security firm that offered the old firm’s workers new contract that they refused. The employees had resorted to a sit-in on TPCC’s premises and refused to leave despite having “no contractual relationship with the Company,” TPCC clarified.