Al-Masry Al-Youm reports.
Tag: workers
Railway workers protest, block trains
Seven hundred workers from the railways technical workshops demonstrated yesterday, blocking the Torbini 917 train, at Abu Wafia region, on its way to Alexandria. The workers demanded the presence of Transportation Minister Muhammad Mansour to listen personally to their complaints about work conditions.
The minister did not show up, but moved quickly to contain the workers’ anger by ordering the payment of 25% salary bonus as promised earlier.
Tora cement: Labor strike continues, hunger strikers taken to hospital
The Tora Cement workers strike enters its fifth day, as negotiations continue with union leaders on their hospital beds. Muhammad Abdel Monsef, the union leader at the factory, together with his deputy Muhammad Ramzi, and two other union officials, Shaaban Ezzat Abdel Qader and Karam el-Sayyed Allam–all have been on a hunger strike since 1,000 workers laid down their tools and stopped production at the Tora Cement factory, demanding their 4.75 months bonus from their Italian management. The recent offer from the management to pay 3.5 months was turned down by union leader Abdel Monsef as he was transferred to Salam Hospital. Abdel Monsef denied, in an interview to Al-Masry Al-Youm, the false statements by the Italian management which claimed workers receive monthly salaries of LE4,500 on average. Abdel Monsef said his fellow workers were receiving between LE1,000 and LE1,500 a month.
