The General Union of Textile Workers has invited the Ghazl el-Mahalla December strike leaders to come to Cairo for a meeting, one day before the end of the ultimatum set by the labor activists. The workers are expected to arrive in buses at the General Union’s HQ at 11am, and should receive the latter’s reply to the workers’ demand to impeach their Factory Union Committee officials.
After their strike victory last December, the Ghazl el-Mahalla workers submitted on 29 January a petition signed by around 13,000 workers demanding the impeachment of the factory’s local union branch officials, after the latter took a negative stand towards the strike.
The workers gave the General Union an ultimatum of the 15th of February, threatening, for the first time since 1957, to resign en masse from the General Federation of Trade Unions, stop paying their membership fees, and launch an independent labor union.
The General Union’s HQ is located: 327 Shobra – Mazallat St. There’s an Underground Metro station meters away: El-Mazallat Station, Shobra line.