Hossam el-Hamalawy
Around 700 from the Aswan Educational Hospital employees went on strike today over incentives, allowances and to protest the collapse of the transportation services.
In other developments, around 3,500 workers from El-Wataniya Steel Company (owned by Nassif Sawiris) have started a strike today in the 6th of October City factory, and in the company’s workshops in Ain Sokhna, and Giza. No more info is available yet…
It is happening again, this time in Aswan.
Clashes broke out on the Aswan Island in Upper Egypt as a mobile phone company tried to install signal tower on the island. The residents, believing this would endanger their health and safety, fought the company officials and threw the construction materials for the tower in the Nile River.
Police detained 11 from the island’s youth, but around 1000 residents showed up in front of the prosecutor demonstrating, forcing the government to release the detainees, stop the building of the tower on the island, in exchange for the residents compensating the company for the construction materials they threw in the river.
More details in Arabic from Al-Masry Al-Youm.