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he Minister of Manpower and Immigration met with the chairman of the General Manpower Syndicate and representatives of Telemasr factory to end the electronics manufacturing factory protest, Sally Mahmoud, the general manager of the quality control departm

10TH OF RAMADAN CITY/CAIRO: Workers at an acrylic spinning factory in 10th of Ramadan City are protesting the management's failure to pay their wages for over a month and a half. "In January we were paid late - the wages were paid after we stopped

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

Workers at an acrylic spinning factory in 10th of Ramadan City are protesting the management's failure to pay their wages for over a month and a half.

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The paper-manufacturing industry in Egypt directly employs 300,000 workers in 130 factories. The total number of workers employed in related sectors that serves this industry amount to 1 million. The sectors is hit hard by the crisis now

"In any case, it is clear that the strike at Shebeen el-Kom will have huge implications, since it raises doubts around the economic polices of the state, threatening further privatization schemes in the textile industry in particular. Whatever the outcome, the experience of Shebeen el-Kom is likely to further strengthen resistance to privatization among workers in other state owned factories"

even if Indorama is making losses in Shebeen al-Kom, we are clearly not talking about a company on the verge of bancruptcy. And the refusal to pay the workers their full bonuses is not a necessary temporary measure, but part of a long term strategy - employed by most post-privatization companies in Egypt - to turn losses into profits by cutting back salaries.

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In 2007 Egypt witnessed an unprecedented level of labor unrest as workers from textile factories to public transport to tax collectors went on strike, mainly over low wages and poor working conditions.

El-badeel reports that 140 workers at the Telemasr branch in Ismailiyya and 200 at the main branch in Cairo demonstrated on Sunday against the decision to partially close the factory and leave 300 workers without work and only half the pay. Workers have p

Workers at Telemasr ended their sit-in at the factory in al-Haram yesterday after 5 days.

A court in Mahalla is going to review legal cases raised by Tareq Amin and Tamer Faiz, two workers at Misr Spinning and Weaving, against the management's arbitrary transfers and other disciplinary measures against labour activists in the factory, on 14 an