Around 1500 workers of the Suez Canal Authority staged protests in three cities on Thursday, demanding better salaries and medical insurance.
A source said that authority employees, including technicans and administrators, rallied in front of governorate buildings in Ismailia, Suez and Port Said, but vowed that the demonstrations will not affect shipping in the canal.
The same source said that workers' salaries are LE500 or less, which the source said was insufficient for them to live on.
Demonstrators, meanwhile, made reassurances that they were staging protests during break times so as not to negatively impact canal operations.
Egypt has been witnessing wide-scale labor protests since President Hosni Mubarak resigned on 11 February after 18 days of nationwide pro-democracy demonstrations.
