Egypt: Workers of the East Delta Company for Transport and Tourism End their Strike After the Management Give Promise

The workers of the East Delta Transport and Tourism Company decided to end the strike in which workers of the company in its various branches participated from work.

This decision came after a member of the company’s board of directors promised the workers to raise salaries, consider applying the minimum wage, and disburse half a month worth salary immediately after the strike ended.

 

The workers of the company went on strike on July 24 in protest against the Minister of Business’s decision to stop paying the monthly profits (which workers call complementary wages). Those who have spent twenty years in the company get 1.300 pounds and add one thousand pounds per month as a supplementary wage, as well as not paying any bonuses since 2014 and not applying any wage increases, which was what the workers demanded.

However, they were surprised by the management’s decision to deduct the complementary wages from their salaries, which prompted workers to go on strike without the administration during the first days of the strike to seek negotiation.

With the workers continuing to strike and adhering to their demands, the management was forced to retreat, as a member of the company’s board of directors held a meeting with the workers four days ago, during which he promised them to spend half a month immediately after the strike ended, raising the minimum wages by the President of the Republic at 2.000 pounds during the next period and studying the disbursement of all the arrears of the company represented in the overnight allowance for drivers and collectors.

 

The workers agreed to end the strike and return to work and to give management the opportunity to fulfill their demands and obtain their wasted rights during the last period.

 

The House of Union and Labor Services declared its full solidarity with the workers in the legitimate demands they are demanding, and demands that the company’s management implement what it promised and what has been agreed upon with the workers.

 

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