Around 3,000 garbage collectors in Giza ended their two-day strike on Wednesday, following threats from the company management threatened to fire them all, Al-Masry Al-Youm reported.
The strike started after the Giza governor decided to fire General Hafez Fekri, the head of Giza Cleaning & Beautification Authorities. The garbage collectors went on strike and protested in front of the Giza governorate HQ, denouncing the decision.
It may be unusual to find some workers going on strike in solidarity with their boss, but in the case of those garbage collectors, they feared the firing would be accompanied by taking away the bonuses and financial gains they achieved under the directorship of General Fekri.
“The strike did not just end by intimidating the garbage collectors,” a socialist journalist who followed the strike told me. “The company management assured the strikers that their gains would not be taken away, and that’s when the garbage collectors decided to suspend their action.”