More than 40 workers from the Mega Textile factory for ready-made garment in Sadat organized an open strike to ask for their re-integration in the factory after it was reopened last month, and for the payment of their delayed wages for more than a year.
The factory has stopped for more than four years, which forced the company to recruit a number of workers after that the administration laid off more than one thousand workers, which was rejected by 42 workers who insisted on maintaining their source of livelihood, despite the suffering they faced and they even didn’t get their basic wages for many months.
The workers say that after the factory was reopened last month, the administration prevented the old workers from entering the factory, prompting them to release a record in the Sadat police department and another at the labour office. They also threatened to strike in front of the factory. The factory was forced to allow them to enter in front of the factory’s’ door, then they were detained in a room adjacent to the main gate of the factory, prompting workers to enter and declare strike next to the machines, asking for their integration in the production system, and the payment of their delayed wages.
It should be noted that the factory started work since 2007 with 35 workers, until the number of workers reached 1200 people, all of them are Egyptian workers with open contracts, while the management consists only from the Turks and some Egyptian elements.
For a long time, the work in the factory went quietly until the investor suddenly decided to close his factory without paying the workers’ salaries in 2014, and throughout that period, the workers remained in protest asking for the payment of their delayed salaries, which are suspended with the closure of the factory.
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