There were 10 sit-ins, seven strikes and three demonstrations by Egyptian workers during March 2007, a report by Awlad el-Ard NGO says.
Meanwhile, 600 teachers and members of staff staged a sit-in yesterday in the Nile Delta town of Zagazig, to protest the abusive treatment by their bosses at the Muslim Youth schools.
In Cairo, 200 workers at Al-Arabiya brick-making factory are continuing their sit-in for the fourth day, to protest the liquidation of the company. Some workers have started a hunger strike; three were transferred to the hospital yesterday: Hanafi el-Sayyed, Mohamed Bashir, Zakaria Ahmad Khalil. The Ministry of Labor is busy organizing the May Day presidential ass-kissing carnival, and refuses to intervene.
In Dakahlya, 280 workers at Mansoura-España garments factory are threatening to stage a sit-in on 28 April–which will be the third industrial action they take in two months–to protest the delay in paying their salaries, and bonuses promised by the Ministry of Labor.