Around 2050 garbage collectors went on strike yesterday in Shobra el-Kheima.
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Mahalla labor leaders banned from entering company compound
I was just on the phone with Ghazl el-Mahalla labor leader Muhammad el-Attar, who told me that security presence was stepped up around the company compound.
He also said he was banned from entering the compound at 7:30am today. “Officer Khaled el-Messiry told me, ‘you specially are not allowed in,'” Attar said. “He said I’ll only be allowed into the factory at the time of my work shift, which starts tonight at 11pm till 7am.”
Attar added that a similar ban is expected to be enforced against other labor activists known to the security services. “They don’t want us to get into the company and speak with other colleagues,” he said. “They are scared we may organize a protest action.”
Textile workers are watching
My labor sources tell me the textile workers in Ghazl Shebeen el-Kom and Kafr el-Dawar “are watching closely what is happening in Mahalla.
There is willingness among the workers, at least those who led the strikes in the two factories last February, to try to mobilize for some form of solidarity action with Mahalla,” if the latter stages a sit-in or goes on strike.