Around 1,000 workers from Tanta Flax and Oil Company started a strike yesterday. The state-backed union officials are trying hard to coopt the strike and diffuse its militancy. Officials from the General Union of Textile Workers distributed Mubarak’s posters on the strikers and banners saluting Said el-Gohary, the head of the General Union, Labor Minister Aisha Abdel Hadi and Hussein Megawer, the head of the Federation.
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Cairo garbage collectors threaten to strike
The Cairo Governor begs the garbage collectors not to go on strike.
1,000 steel mills workers demonstrate
The steel mills workers in Tebbeen, south of Cairo, staged a sit in around 4:15pm yesterday, inside their company compound, protesting attempts by the management to extend their working hours. The sit in was suspended after one hour, on receiving assurances from the management no extension would take effect.