Employees of the state-owned television network Tele Liban launched a strike on Wednesday in a dispute over salary and social assistance payments. The channel’s employees’ union said that their salaries and social allowances have become “worthless” in light of the Lebanese economy’s downward spiral since the 2019 economic crisis, reported The New Arab’s Arabic-language sister site Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. The strikers demanded an increase in salaries, and the reinstatement of cost of living allowances and social assistance payments that were stopped in November 2021, Tele Liban’s union head Hana Ba…