Al-Masry Al-Youm published a good feature.
Tag: garbage collectors
3,000 Garbage collectors stage protest
From Al-Masry Al-Youm:
About 3,000 garbage collectors in Eastern Shobra el-Kheima (Cairo) staged an open sit-in yesterday in front of the district headquarters in protest against the decision taken by Major General Fawzi el-Shami, the head of the local council, to stop paying their salaries and impose deductions on them as much as twice their salaries.
They raised slogans such as “No more injustice”, “Where is justice, Adli Hussein?” and “Save us from the head of the local council”
Police detain Giza strikers
Agents from the Omraniya Police Station arrested yesterday a number of garbage collectors, who are involved in the ongoing strike over unpaid salaries, and transferred them to the 6th of October Prosecutor’s Office, on charges of illegal assembly.
The police had invited a number of strikers to the station for negotiations with the company managers. When the strikers arrived, they found out it was a trap, and the police detained them immediately.
More details from Al-Masry Al-Youm could be found in Arabic here.