The following newsletter was distributed yesterday by the Textile Workers League in Ghazl el-Mahalla factories:
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Circus clowns on strike!
Talk of a strike wave!
Egypt’s state-run National Circus clowns, performers and workers stage sit-in against privatization, demanding medical insurance, allowances and bonuses.
Mahalla updates: New round of negotiations with govt
Tomorrow morning, a Textile Workers League delegation from Mahalla will arrive in Cairo to negotiate with Labor Minister Aisha Abdel Hadi, Egyptian General Federation of Trade Unions President Hussein Megawer and th head of (also the state backed) General Union of Textile Workers Said el-Gohary. The League activists, who include the leaders of ’06 and ’07 Ghazl el-Mahalla strikes, are lobbying for improving the work conditions and the return/compensation of the workers penalized for taking part in the 30 October ’08 anti-privatization protest.