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Ghazl el-Mahalla workers threaten sit-in
A 100-strong delegation of Mahalla textile workers is arriving in Cairo, today Sunday morning, 10am, to meet with the head of General Federation of Trade Unions, Hussein Megawer, for negotiations over their January demands, that include the improvement of working conditions as well as the impeachment of their corrupt Factory Union Committee, threatening to stage a sit-in at the Federation’s HQ, to be followed by a strike. Another delegation from Mahalla will be also sent to the Ministry of Social Affairs to denounce the closure of the Center for Trade Union and Workers Services, and to lobby for the factory workers’ demands.
One of the December strike leaders called me to say he and his colleagues are requesting solidarity from Kefaya and Cairo’s press corps.
PLEASE SHOW UP AT THE GENERAL FEDERATION’S HQ, 90 GALAA ST., (NEAREST UNDERGROUND METRO STATION: AHMAD ORABI) 10AM TO WELCOME THE MAHALLA WORKERS IN CAIRO AND TO EXPRESS YOUR SOLIDARITY WITH THEM.
Crackdown on labor activists in Mahalla
Mubarak’s crackdown on the left continues. Ministry of Social Affairs officials, in the company of State Security agents, shut down the Center of Trade Union and Workers’ Services branch in Mahalla, on Wednesday 8pm, sealing its door with red wax.
Activists will assemble Sunday 15 April, at 1pm, in front of the Ministry of Social Affairs HQ in Cairo’s el-Qasr el-Eini, for a two-hour sit-in, to protest the closure.