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Underground Metro drivers on strike

Posted on 06/06/200724/03/2015 By 3arabawy

I’m receiving news the Underground Metro drivers are on strike, and they have assembled at Orabi Station.

I’m trying to confirm the news now…

UPDATE: Three minutes after I posted the above, I was in my car ready to take off to Ramses Sq to check the strike, and that’s when a friend called in to say the strike was suspended and the trains are running again, so I walked back home to update the posting. I’m still trying to find out exactly what happened.. but the initial reports are saying that a driver was injured, and there was a delay in his transfer to the hospital. So the drivers went on strike, and stood on the rails, in front of the trains to block their movement. The strike lasted something between 15 to 30 mins, till the ambulance arrived. I’ll update the posting when I receive more information.

Biggest strikes in South Africa since the end of apartheid

Posted on 06/06/200726/05/2023 By 3arabawy

The biggest strike wave since the end of apartheid is causing a crisis in South African politics – and shaking a government that refuses to increase pay for millions of public sector workers.

Updates on the Mansoura-España Garments Company sit-in

Posted on 05/06/200707/02/2021 By 3arabawy

The sit-in by the Mansoura-España Garments Company workers enters its 46th day.

The United Bank, which owns the biggest percentage of shares in the company, has insisted on its position, to disregard the agreement reached between the parliamentarians and the Labor Ministry.

The bank has decided to liquidate the firm, without the proper compensation the workers are demanding. The bank officials refused to show up for the meeting held yesterday, between Labor Ministry officials, the General Federation of Trade unions and the Factory Union Committee.