On Sunday, workers and employees of the Grand Nile Tower launched an open sit-in protesting against the non-payment of their salaries for the last two months of April and May, standing against the administration’s attempt to exploit the emerging Coronavirus crisis in reducing employee wages, which was rejected by the workers, who insisted to the payment of their full wages.
However, as the administration went on stalling and insisting on reducing salaries, the workers made their decision to sit inside the hotel until the full payment of their salaries.
The administration announced that they will be paying the salaries of workers that amount to 2000 EGP, which workers have refused, adhering to the payment of full salaries for all.
The relationship between workers and management in the “Grand Nile Tower” is undergoing great tensions since April 2015, when workers organized a protest to obtain financial dues of the profits, which the administration has been refusing to grant them.
In addition to demands to tenure the workers who spent eight years of work inside the hotel, to implement the collective agreement that the workers had with the administration to do so, and to implement the judicial ruling that the workers had obtained in the year 2006, which requires workers to be entitled to a financial share of the 12% service, which the administration was not spending for them from 2002 to 2006
It is noteworthy that the “Grand Nile Tower Hotel” (previously Grand Hyatt) is owned by the Egyptian Saudi Company for Tourism Development, which was sold in 1992 and was employing 1200 workers, who were reduced to 850 workers since its ownership was transferred to the Egyptian Saudi Company for Tourism Development and became owned by Saudi and Egyptian investors.
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