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Hundreds of Tanta workers stage sit-in

Posted on 01/10/200728/12/2020 By 3arabawy

Hours following the victory of Ghazl el-Mahalla strikers, hundreds of workers from the Tanta Flax and Oils Company, staged a strike demanding an increase in their profit shares to a six-month pay, an increase in their food allowance, and instating 200 workers who are on temporary work contracts. The company is owned by a private Saudi investor, and is located in the Nile Delta province of Gharbeia, where Mahalla is.

UPDATE: According to Al-Masry Al-Youm, a total of 600 workers took part in the protests. The paper also reports more on the situation of the uninstated 200 workers: They’ve been working in the company for seven years, with a LE6 (roughly one US Dollar) daily wage.

“I don’t think whatever happens there will go away anytime soon”

Posted on 26/09/200723/03/2015 By 3arabawy

A journalist friend just called me from Tanta while on his way to Mahalla.

“The country is on fire,” he said. “I don’t think whatever happens there (in Mahalla) will go away anytime soon. Everyone in Tanta is talking about what’s happening in Mahalla.”

Suez strikers score victory!

Posted on 25/08/200715/01/2021 By 3arabawy

Lovely news from home…

The strike of the Suez Fertilizers Company workers was suspended Friday 5:30pm, following negotiations between the CEO of the company Sayyed Abul Hawa el-Daw and the Labor Ministry officials in Suez on the one hand, and six of the strike leaders on the other, whereby the following had been agreed up on:

1-The monthly salaries of the workers will be raised by LE200

2-An Ambulance car will be provided and stationed at the factory

3-A daily meal will be provided for the workers in their shift breaks

4-A sacking order against one of the strikers has been revoked

Mabrouk!

[I had to check with my sources again in Egypt about the timing of the strike, coz I was skeptical about how the strike started on a Friday, which is supposedly a holiday. But it turned out this company is one of those who work 24/7, with three alternating eight-hour daily shifts.]

I still don’t have details about the situation in the mother company in Kafr el-Zayat, where 2000 workers warned the management on Friday that they would start a strike on Sunday if the Social Bonuses are not paid.