The 700-strong Syouf Textile workers strike continues, as one worker by the name Abdel Fattah Muhammad Rizq dies of a heart attack.
The strikers are also accusing their Factory Union Committee officials of siding with the management.
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700 textile workers on strike in Alex
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.
6000 Ghazl el-Mahalla workers resign from General Federation
I visited el-Mahalla el-Kobra on Friday.
Two of the December Ghazl el-Mahalla strike leaders told me that up till now around 6,000 workers have resigned from the government-controlled General Federation of Trade Unions, after the latter’s refusal to impeach the Factory Union Committee. At least 56 resignations a day are sent to the Federation, by registered mail (costing each worker LE2.5 per letter, according to the two labor activists; a huge sum for the workers there believe it or not!).