Over 20,000 workers are currently striking at Egypt’s largest state-owned textile company in Mahalla. Strikers at the Spinning and Weaving Company in Mahalla are demanding the payment of promised bonuses from 2013; the implementation of the minimum wage; and the dismissal of Fouad Abdel-Alim, head of the Holding Company which oversees all public sector textile firms. The Egyptian cabinet tried to placate the workers by offering the bonuses, but the workers have vowed to continue their protests until all their demands are met. The workers of Malhalla were instrumental in bringing down the Mubarak regime in 2011.
Over 20,000 workers are currently striking at Egypt’s largest state-owned textile company in Mahalla. Strikers at the Spinning and Weaving Company in Mahalla are demanding the payment of promised bonuses from 2013; the implementation of the minimum wage; and the dismissal of Fouad Abdel-Alim, head of the Holding Company which oversees all public sector textile firms. The Egyptian cabinet tried to placate the workers by offering the bonuses, but the workers have vowed to continue their protests until all their demands are met. The workers of Malhalla were instrumental in bringing down the Mubarak regime in 2011.
