Tag: workers

500 workers in Suez to start hunger-strike tomorrow

Posted on 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

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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.

The present and future challenges facing Egypt’s labor movement

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The Center for Socialist Studies is organizing a lecture, Tuesday May 22, at 6pm, on: Present and Future Challenges facing Egypt’s Labor Movement.

Speakers will include strike leaders from Cairo, Daqahliya, Mahalla, Beheira, and the 10th of Ramadan.

Members of Parliament will also take part, including: Saber Abul Fotouh of the Muslim Brotherhood, Saad Abboud of the Karama Party, and independent parliamentarian Gamal Zahran.

The Center is located 7 Murad Street Giza.