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Mansoura-España updates

Posted on 10/07/200707/02/2021 By 3arabawy

For the second time on the row, the Mansoura-España Garments Company managment postponed the general assembly of shareholders. The first should have taken place on 30 May, but it was postponed to 7 July, only to be postponed again till “the end of the month” as the workers were told.

The meeting is expected to determine whether the United Bank will continue running the factory, or sell it to another investor within the framework of the agreement reached which ended the two-month factory occupation.

The workers are also coming under pressure from Said el-Gohary, the head of the General Union of Textile Workers, not to lobby for the rest of their rights (the unpaid bonuses and grants from 1999 to 2006) and wait till the shareholders’ assembly takes place.

AFL-CIO Cairo dispatches

Posted on 05/07/200707/02/2021 By 3arabawy

Ray Abernathy of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) paid a visit to Cairo, from where he sent two dispatches to the AFL-CIO Weblog about the Egyptian working class.

The first is about the struggle of the women workers at the Mansoura-España Garments Company. And the second is on child labor in the so-called “Carpet Schools”.

Labor Activist Ray Abernathy and Labor Journalist Stephen Franklin

Mansoura-España update

Posted on 28/06/200707/02/2021 By 3arabawy

Life resumed at the Mansoura-España Garments Company Wednesday, after the the workers received their work order from the management.

Following the end of their sit-in last Thursday, the workers showed up daily at the factory starting from Saturday, and used to stay from 7am to 3pm (the official working hours) but neither production orders nor raw materials arrived.

The workers are supposed to get paid their June salaries today, according to the agreement.

The workers are also under pressure by the management not to speak with the media. There are still from two to three State Security agents stationed inside the compound, according to a source in the factory.

In other developments, the general assembly of company shareholders, originally scheduled on 30 June, was postponed to 7 July instead. This meeting is expected to determine whether the United Bank will pump money into the factory and revive it properly, or sell it to a new investor within the framework of the agreement struck last week.