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Strike opens labor wounds

Posted on 06/10/200721/03/2015 By 3arabawy

A week-long strike at Egypt’s biggest textile company may be over, but it is likely that similar events will unfold elsewhere, experts warn.
“These strikes will happen again unless workers’ conditions are drastically improved,” says Fouad Hashem, an economics professor.
“A comprehensive reform programme should be worked out to ensure that workers receive reasonable wages to cope with high inflation rates,” he told Gulf News.
Annual inflation rates in Egypt reached 8.5 per cent last August compared with 8.9 per cent in August 2006, according to a recent cabinet report.
An estimated 27,000 workers at the Misr Textile Company in Al Mahalla Al Kubra, some 130km north of Cairo, went back to work on Monday after going on strike for a week in protest of the low wages and increments.

Ghazl el-Mahalla on STRIKE (Day 6)

Posted on 06/10/200704/02/2021 By 3arabawy

Blogger Salma Said travelled on the last Friday of the Ghazl el-Mahalla strike, and took some pix which you can find here.

3,000 Garbage collectors stage protest

Posted on 06/10/200729/12/2020 By 3arabawy

From Al-Masry Al-Youm:

About 3,000 garbage collectors in Eastern Shobra el-Kheima (Cairo) staged an open sit-in yesterday in front of the district headquarters in protest against the decision taken by Major General Fawzi el-Shami, the head of the local council, to stop paying their salaries and impose deductions on them as much as twice their salaries.
They raised slogans such as “No more injustice”, “Where is justice, Adli Hussein?” and “Save us from the head of the local council”