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Mahalla, the capital of the Egyptian working class...

اتحاد عمال مصر ورئيسة ان شغالين مع الحزب الوطنى وعملاء لامن الدولة غريبة قوى يطلع منهم التصريح دة ولا هى منظرة

"The November-January season hasn't only witnessed a low turnout," said Arif, a Bedouin taxi driver, "it's dead and anyone who often visits Sharm will tell you that."

The United Bank screwed the Mansoura-Espana workers, and now are screwing their own staff

The United Bank screwed the Mansoura-Espana workers, and now are screwing their own staff

Aisha abd el-Hady reportedly vowed that no privatized companies would return to the state (as many of the workers demanded during the strike), and said that the government is commited to the sucess of the indian investor

Campaign against Indorama

The website of the Indian multinational which owns the Ghazl Shebeen el-Kom Textile plant, which is now witnessing a strike

For the workers, the transfer of the factory to a private investor has been a catastrophe. The stories they told sounded very similar to that of other recently privatized companies like Telemisr or Tanta Linen Co. Since 2007, the new management has refused to pay bonuses worth a total of 10 million pounds, while allegedly paying 6 million pounds cash to about 200 workers that agreed to early retirement. Since it was privatized, the losses of the company has more than tripled - even before the global financial crisis started. Workers accuse the new owner of deliberately sabotaging the factory to eliminate competition, and of buying dysfunctional old machines from his other factories in Pakistan and Indonesia at trumped-up prices as a way to transfer resources abroad