Hossam el-Hamalawy
Around 1000 cement workers are currently staging two sit-ins south of Cairo in Helwan and Tebbin, demanding the 30% raise decreed by Mubarak last May, the “schools grant” (paid to workers in the fall to help them with the fees of their children schooling) and a compensation for the overtime work shifts they do.
No more details are available at the moment.
Workers for Change and the Tagammu Party are holding a public event, to commemorate the 19th anniversary of the heroic 1989 Helwan Steel Mills occupation, which was crushed by the police using live ammunition, resulting in the killing of one worker.
The event will take place on 20 August, 5:30pm, at the Tagammu office in Helwan, located at 24 Ragheb Street.
The Telephone Equipments Manufacturing Company are staging protests in front of the General Federation of Trade Unions in Galaa St, downtown Cairo.