Employees of the Mahalla Spinning and Weaving Company in the Nile Delta agreed to suspend a hunger strike declared Tuesday to protest measures taken against them by the company’s commissioner-general, Fouad Hassan. Workers agreed to suspend the strike for one week in order to give the Manpower Ministry time to investigate alleged wrongdoing by Hassan.
Workers initially called the strike after Hassan sacked their leader, Mustafa Foda, and financially penalized another of their leaders, Faisal Laqousha, last December.
Mahalla employees demand that their leaders be reinstated in their jobs and that the company provide workers with increased allowances for transportation and housing.
Translated from the Arabic Edition.
