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.
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Tweeting industrial actions
The Ford Visteon workers are tweeting updates about their factory occupation: