Egypt – The General Union of Spinning and Weaving Workers announced that the workers of the Mahalla Spinning Company in Delta Egypt ended their strike after negotiations with the union and resumed work in the company. But one of the strike leaders said that the protest is suspended, not terminated. Thousands of Mahalla Textile Company workers suspended their two-week strike on after a representative of the company pledged to provide a response to their demands for payment of a delayed annual bonus and an increase in their share of the company’s profits within a week. One of the striking workers who spoke to BBC said that the workers will resume the strike if the company does not respond to their demands in the agreed timeframe. Thousands of workers initiated the strike 2 weeks ago, calling for the payment of their delayed annual bonus, an increase in their share of the company’s profits, as well as other demands related to promotions and food allowances. Both the company’s administration and the Manpower Ministry initially rejected the workers’ demands..The workers were scheduled to receive their annual bonus in July, a payment that amounts to 10 percent of their salaries, and decided to strike a month after its failure to be dispensed, which called for a heavy security deployment in the streets of the city, according to workers and police sources spoke to the BBC. Our strike is peaceful and is not intended to cause riots, as some people see in the media, said workers involved in the strike. They stressed that the demands for the allowance are legitimate, just like colleagues in the other holding companies for spinning and weaving, and workers in the government sector.
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