Workers at the Palestine Hospital, located in Cairo’s Heliopolis district, are on strike.
Tag: workers
The child labor behind your Egyptian cotton sheets
They work 10-hour shifts in 40C heat for 20 pence a day. Their job? Picking the cotton that makes the world’s finest bed linen. Read the Guardian report on the scandal of Egypt’s child laborers.
And you can watch more photos of cotton agricultural workers here.
Celebrating the Mahalla Heroes
Check out a report and watch some pix, by this blog, of the Center for Socialist Studies’ celebrations of the Ghazl el-Mahalla workers’ release.
And here are some more pix:
