A Socialist activist compiled some of the slogans chanted by the Real Estate Tax Collectors during their downtown Cairo sit-in.
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Suez Food Industries workers stage sit-in
Around 250 workers (out of a total force 450) from Efco Food Industries are continuing their sit-in which they started two days, in Suez, demanding:
1-Their annual shares of profits which they haven’t received from 1999, the year the company was founded
2-Food allowance or a meal, as the workers are given neither
3-Health insurance, especially as industrial safety procedures is almost non-existent according to the workers, who say accidents and severe injuries (which lead to the amputation of limps) are common in the workplace.
4-Night-shifts allowance (badal wardeya): The company’s factory in Ataqa, Suez, operate 24/7 on three successive eight-hour daily shifts. The night shifts should have a higher pay than the morning shifts, but the company are paying flat rates.
5-From the total work force of 450, only 150 workers have contracts. The protesters are demanding contracts and job security
6-A worker by the name Fathi Afifi will be interrogated by an administrative penal board. The workers are demanding this move by the management to be revoked.
Giza Labor Ministry civil servants to mobilize
Inspired by the victory of the Real Estate Tax Collectors’ strikers, the Labor Ministry’s Giza civil servants are starting a campaign to improve their work conditions.