The Tanta Flax and Oil Company workers accuse the Saudi investor of deliberately “killing” the factory, by refusing to invest in modernizing/maintaining the machinery, in order to sell the 74 feddans of land the company lies on, as a real estate property, instead of continuing production operations.
Tanta Flax and Oil Co strikers Safwat Michel and Ibrahim Allam. Amid some of the worst sectarian fighting Egypt is witnessing, the strike wave in contrast demonstrates strong unity between Muslim and Coptic workers.
I’m back in Cairo after spending the day in Mit Hebeish with the Tanta Flax and Oil Co strikers.
I’ll post more later.