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Cement workers refuse buyouts, propose self-management

Posted on By 3arabawy

The Cement workers in Tora, Helwan and Suez are refusing an early buyout scheme their Italian management is currently drafting, with the aim of cutting down the labor force.

Instead the workers want to buy the shares of the foreign management, and are proposing they (the workers) run the company themselves, promising to bring down the cement market price from LE400 per ton (expected to rise soon to LE600) to LE200.

7 US occupation troops killed in Iraq

Posted on By 3arabawy

The US military announced six more occupation troops were killed by a roadside bomb in west Baghdad today.

Iraqi Resistance, Cartoon by Carlos Latuff

UPDATE: From Al-Jazeera:

A soldier from the 13th Sustainment Command was killed and two were wounded when a blast struck their vehicle on Saturday near the city Diwaniyah, the command said.