The Workers’ Coordination Committee has issued a statement in solidarity with the Amanco workers.
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700 Telemasr Co workers will stage sit-in tomorrow
Around 700 workers from Telemasr Company, in Talbeya, Giza, are scheduled to stage a sit-in tomorrow Tuesday 12 noon at their factory, protesting the state-owned management’s dismissive attitude towards their demands and grievances:
1- The workers are demanding a halt to the transfer of the Butane stoves production factory, located in Telemasr, to another company, which means job losses for the Telemasr workers.
2-The workers are not receiving their insurance payments on time.
3-Part of their allowances and pay were in goods and services. These have stopped including their daily meal.
4-The management has cut down the transportation service, from 12 to 2 lines of transportation only.
‘6th of April: To be or not to be’
In the run up to the 6th of April, Ghazl el-Mahalla turned into a battleground of propaganda and agitation between the Textile Workers’ League activists on the one hand, and on the other were the management, security and the group of workers around Attar and Habib who were trying to sabotage the strike.
Each camp was distributing hundreds and thousands of statements in the week prior to the 6th of April. According to two labor organizers I spoke with, the militancy in the garments section, that is composed largely of women workers, was the highest. These were the same workers who started the 7th of December strike, as 3000 of them struck and started marching, chanting “Where are the men? Here we are the women!”
One of the strongest pro-strike statements, distributed in the factory, appeared a couple of days prior to the uprising, titled “The 6th of April: To be or not to be,” signed by “The Women Workers of Ghazl el-Mahalla,” who were close to the Textile Workers’ League.
The statement denounced PM Nazif, the National Democratic Party, the company security and the state-backed union officials, endorsing the call to strike:
