Al-Masry Al-Youm reports:
1,300 textile weaving workers from Trust Company in Suez have escalated the sit-in, they started on Saturday, into total work stoppage and hunger strikes, protesting the management’s abusive policies.
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Labor Updates
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.
Industrial action updates
Abul Makarem textile workers ended their sit-in two days ago after they achieved victory.
200 workers at the Arabiya brick-making factory are continuing their sit-in for the sixth day on the row, protesting the liquidation of the company.
150 workers at the yeast-making factory in Salam City have been on a sit-in for three days now demanding their annual bonuses.
A group of workers at the Egyptian Atomic Energy Agency assembled in front of the Presidential Palace in Abdeen, demanding to be instated with job contracts.
More details in Arabic here.