Tag: menoufiya

2,500 Ghazl Shebeen workers strike

Posted on By 3arabawy

I received the following message from Cairo:

اضرب عمال شركة غزل شبين الكوم من الساعة الحادية عشر مساء السبت حتى الساعة الحادية عشر ظهر اليوم احتجا جا على التعسف الادارى للمستثمر الهندى .شارك فى الاضراب 2500 عامل .وبعد اتستمرار الاضراب عقد اجتماع بين اللجنة النقابية واتحاد المساهمين من جانب وادارة الشركة من جانب آخر ، وتراجعت ادارة الشركة عن قراراتها التعسفية المتعلقة بمواعيد العمل والخصومات فى حال التأخير

Around 2,500 textile workers at Ghazl Shebeen el-Kom struck Saturday 11pm till Sunday 11am, protesting abusive administrative treatment by the new Indian investor. A meeting was held between the Factory Union Committee officials, the shareholders association, and the company management, resulting in the revoke of the newly imposed working hours regulations and penal codes.

You can read more background information on Ghazl Shebeen el-Kom here.

Brotherhood MPs released, Menoufiya detainees jailed 15 days

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From Ikhwan Web:

The Egyptian regime released two Brotherhood MPs whom it detained on Sunday, but it jailed other MB leaders rounded in the same raid.
Cairo state security prosecution released today MPs engineer Sabri Amer and Rajab Abu Zeid, who were arrested along with 12 citizens yesterday evening in the house of engineer Fathi Shehabuddin. The prosecution did not hold any investigation with them, saying the case of red-handedness for lifting a parliamentarian’s immunity as prescribed in the constitution doesn’t apply on the case of the two MPs, specially that the investigations with the detainees confirmed that they invited the MPs to know their opinion about the Shura Council elections.
In the same context, the state security prosecution decided to jail 12 Muslim Brotherhood leaders detained in Menoufiya for 15 days pending trial.