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Labor Updates

Posted on 23/05/200707/02/2021 By 3arabawy

The strike at the cooking-oil producing factory in Suez continues, involving 500 workers, despite new threats of police intervention coming this time from the Suez governor on Tuesday. The workers started a hunger strike sometime around 3pm. ~~Serene has a more detailed report here…~~

A group of tourism workers staged a sit-in at their company’s headquarters in Mohandessin protesting the management corruption, reports Randa.

The sit-in by more than 150 (mainly women) workers, which started 21 April, continues at Mansoura-España Garments Company, demanding their unpaid bonuses, job security as it’s becoming clear the owning bank Al-Masraf Al-Muttahid is about to liquidate the firm.

500 workers in Suez to start hunger-strike tomorrow

Posted on 21/05/200715/01/2021 By 3arabawy

500 workers on strike at the Suez Al-Zoyout Al-Motakamla company have announced they are starting a hunger-strike tomorrow Tuesday 3pm, after the owner threatened to send in the police to smash the industrial action.

The workers staged a sit-in last Wednesday, and then brought production at the factory to complete halt since Saturday, demanding their bonuses and profit shares unpaid since 2004.

The company owner Ahmad Alam Eddin sent a fax from Cairo on Monday accusing the workers’ industrial action of bringing losses to the firm, which produces cooking oil, worth LE3 millions up till now, and threatening to send in the Interior Ministry troops to break the strike. In response, the workers announced they will be starting a hunger-strike tomorrow Tuesday 3pm.

Cement workers refuse buyouts, propose self-management

Posted on 20/05/200711/02/2021 By 3arabawy

The Cement workers in Tora, Helwan and Suez are refusing an early buyout scheme their Italian management is currently drafting, with the aim of cutting down the labor force.

Instead the workers want to buy the shares of the foreign management, and are proposing they (the workers) run the company themselves, promising to bring down the cement market price from LE400 per ton (expected to rise soon to LE600) to LE200.