BBC staff in Cairo strike in call for equal pay with Middle East colleagues

The BBC said the broadcaster was aware of Egypt’s economic situation and has been planning ‘increasing salaries by 27% between March and July this year to mitigate the levels of high inflation in the country’ (PA)

The BBC’s staff in Cairo have gone on a three-day strike to demand equal pay with other colleagues in the Middle East as Egypt’s economic crisis deepens further.

According to Khaled el-Balshy, the strikers’ spokesperson and head of Egypt’s journalism union, the 75 staff members from the broadcaster’s Cairo bureau are demanding to be paid in dollars – like other BBC employees in the region, including in Beirut and Istanbul.