I travelled on Wednesday to the Nile Delta town of Talkha in Daqahliya province, with a group of journalist friends, to check out the sit-in by 284 workers at the Mansoura-España Garments Company.
I uploaded some of the pix I took to this Flickr set.
Joel Beinin and I co-authored a new article for the Middle East Report Online about the current longest and strongest wave of labor protests since the end of World War II in Egypt.
In two new reports, the Egyptian Workers and Trade Union Watch documented 56 labor protests, strikes, threats of strikes, sit-ins during the month of April, and another 15 during the first week of May.