The Tanta Flax and Oils Company workers have suspended their sit-in.
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Only strikes can unite us
Naga Hammadi, which has become synonymous with sectarian murders, now brings us some good news: Around 800 workers from the Misr Aluminum Company are now staging a sit-in, protesting managerial mistreatment…
Cairo Public Transportation workers to strike tomorrow
The Cairo Public Transportation workers are starting a strike in all the Cairo garages, 6am, demanding the modernization/replacement of the obsolete buses and spare parts, raising allowances related to work hazards, increasing bonuses, reforming the health services, and CALLING FOR THE FORMATION OF A FREE UNION, independent from the CORRUPT STATE-BACKED NDP-RUN EGYPTIAN GENERAL FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS.
The strike leaders are already coming under severe security pressures to abort the strike, as I’m blogging now, and some have expressed fear of arrest.
UPDATE: The strike has been aborted, early Wednesday morning, due to pressures from the police and the Ministry of Transportation officials.