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Mansoura-España workers on STRIKE

Posted on By 3arabawy

250 workers from the Mansoura-España Garments Company went on strike an hour ago, after the security banned Adel Hassaballah, the deputy head of the Factory Union Committee from entering the compound. The trade unionist had been fired earlier by the United Bank, charged with allowing journalists into the factory to speak to the workers.

UPDATE 9:30am: A number of the strikers are leaving the factory, on their way to demonstrate in front of the Daqahliya Province Governorate HQ in Mansoura

UPDATE: 12noon: Central Security Forces surrounded the factory. State Security officers are threatening strikers with arrests.. Fire truck opened water canons on the strikers.

UPDATE: 5:30pm: I was out most of the day, but I’ve been twittering the strike. I hope you were following my Twitter account. The strike was suspended under pressures from the police and labor ministry officials. The troops siege was only lifted when the workers were allowed to leave the factory compound by 4pm.

Mansoura-España Updates: Bank sacks five workers

Posted on By 3arabawy

According to sources in the Mansoura-España Garments factory, the United Bank has issued a sacking decree against the four workers it reported earlier to the police, in addition to the deputy head of the Factory Union Committee Adel Hassaballah. The order will be implemented tomorrow, according to the workers, but a strike is expected to take place 8am if the five workers are barred by the security from entering the company compound.

Mansoura-España Garments Company شركة المنصورة أسبانيا للملابس

Mansoura-España Updates

Posted on By 3arabawy

I spoke with two workers today in the factory.

The security guard at the company gate, whose name is Yasser, will be punished by the management for “allowing journalists into the factory” and for refusing to testify against a colleague accused by the management of letting the workers out of the warehouses exit, after the management tried locking them up inside the factory. They will deduct 10 days from his salary.

Mohsen el-Sha’er’s saga continues, while it seems the management has halted its earlier move against the four other workers.

There was production yesterday in the company as an order for 1,600 pieces of garments came through. The workers complain since the brokering of the agreement last year (which was betrayed by the United Bank), the management did not seek any new clients for the firm and the total time spent in production amounted to one or two months out of the entire year. Prior to 2006, the workers say the company used to produce 6,000 pieces of garments a month to client around the world, including the US.