Seven hundred Alexandrian workers started a strike yesterday at the Syouf Spinning and Weaving Company, protesting the management’s decision to rent out parts of the production units to a private Indian investor. The workers fear the move is the first step towards their mass sacking.
The strikers are also demanding their unpaid bonuses, and are demanding the same 45-day bonus their comrades at Ghazl el-Mahalla received from the government, following their last December strike.
You can read Al-Masry Al-Youm’s report here.