500 workers on strike at the Suez Al-Zoyout Al-Motakamla company have announced they are starting a hunger-strike tomorrow Tuesday 3pm, after the owner threatened to send in the police to smash the industrial action.
The workers staged a sit-in last Wednesday, and then brought production at the factory to complete halt since Saturday, demanding their bonuses and profit shares unpaid since 2004.
The company owner Ahmad Alam Eddin sent a fax from Cairo on Monday accusing the workers’ industrial action of bringing losses to the firm, which produces cooking oil, worth LE3 millions up till now, and threatening to send in the Interior Ministry troops to break the strike. In response, the workers announced they will be starting a hunger-strike tomorrow Tuesday 3pm.