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Labor protests outside presidential palace
Egypt
August 22, 2012
Labor protests outside presidential palace
Workers from the privatized Steam Boilers Company, the Ideal Company and the Kouta Steel Company staged protests outside the…
Sukari Gold Mine to resume operation Tuesday
Egypt
July 30, 2012
Sukari Gold Mine to resume operation Tuesday
Operation would be resumed fully on Tuesday in the Sukari Gold Mine after a nine-day hiatus, during which the workers…
1,500 gold mine workers enter third day of strikes
Egypt
July 25, 2012
1,500 gold mine workers enter third day of strikes
Fifteen hundred Sukari Gold Mine workers have declared a third day of strikes as they demand raises, the re-hiring…
29 striking workers dismissed from Sukari gold mine
Egypt
July 24, 2012
29 striking workers dismissed from Sukari gold mine
The management of Sukari gold mine in Upper Egypt fired 29 workers Tuesday, including members of the executive office of…
Thousands of textile workers suspend strikes
Egypt
July 24, 2012
Thousands of textile workers suspend strikes
Thousands of Egyptian state textile workers suspended their strikes on Tuesday after receiving concessions in a pay dispute that brought…
Workers unite, rally against abuses
Egypt
July 19, 2012
Workers unite, rally against abuses
A labor conference was held at the Journalists Syndicate on Thursday with the aim of detailing the condition of more…
Mahalla resurgent: Workers assert political independence
Egypt
July 19, 2012
Mahalla resurgent: Workers assert political independence
MAHALLA — Around 23,000 workers at Egypt’s largest textile company, the Misr Company for Spinning and Weaving, began an open-ended…
Labor unrest spreads in Egypt’s textile sector
Egypt
July 18, 2012
Labor unrest spreads in Egypt’s textile sector
Strikes brought a swathe of Egypt's state textile industry to a halt on Wednesday, workers and a labor activist said,…
Workers at Ceramica Cleopatra stage protest, demand authorities to intervene
Egypt
July 17, 2012
Workers at Ceramica Cleopatra stage protest, demand authorities to intervene
An industrial dispute in Suez triggered clashes between the police and workers who broke into a government building on Tuesday,…
No longer off limits: Presidential palace becomes a new space of protest
Egypt
July 14, 2012
No longer off limits: Presidential palace becomes a new space of protest
Shortly before being sworn in, President Mohamed Morsy professed a desire to keep in touch with the demands of the…