The state-backed General Union of Textile Workers has aborted tomorrow’s protest, planned by the Tanta Flax and Oil Company strikers in front of the Labor Ministry HQ in Nasr City.
A strike leader expressed his deep frustration to me in a phone call, and accused the General Union Head Said el-Gohary of continuously curbing and restricting the strikers’ actions. My source added that tomorrow 7pm, Said el-Gohary will be meeting with the members of the factory’s local union members, in the General Union HQ in Shobra el-Mezzallat, to update them on his talks with the head of the corrupt, state-backed General Federation of Trade Unions Hussein Megawer and Labor Minister Aisha Abdel Hadi.
“We will not suspend the strike until all our demands are met,” said the strike leader. “Every sacked worker must return to his job. If Gohary tries to push for a settlement that doesn’t include this, then we won’t accept it. If we allow the Saudi investor to get away with sacking nine workers, then tomorrow he will sack the whole factory.”
Meanwhile, the strike continues…