Joel Beinin and I co-authored a new article for the Middle East Report Online about the current longest and strongest wave of labor protests since the end of World War II in Egypt.
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Egyptian textile workers confront the new economic order
I co-authored an article with Joel Beinin for MERIP on the recent wave of labor strikes in the textile sector, and the prospects of political change in Egypt.
700 textile workers on strike in Alex
Seven hundred Alexandrian workers started a strike yesterday at the Syouf Spinning and Weaving Company, protesting the management’s decision to rent out parts of the production units to a private Indian investor. The workers fear the move is the first step towards their mass sacking.
The strikers are also demanding their unpaid bonuses, and are demanding the same 45-day bonus their comrades at Ghazl el-Mahalla received from the government, following their last December strike.
You can read Al-Masry Al-Youm’s report here.