Workers of the National Steel Industries Company in Ain Sukhna Egypt resumed a series of strikes after having stopped it during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Because of the non-disbursement of incentives and supplementary fund dues and the referral of union members to the investigation, the company’s workers announced that they had decided to go into a strike on Sunday, May 10, 2020.
According to Press interviews with a number of striking workers, the reduction or cancelation of the financial entitlements of workers became so frequent under the pretext of the economic crisis.
Despite the agreement between the company’s management and the workers and the Ministry of Manpower to establish a union, the company’s management has rigged in manipulating the workers’ financial rights under the threat of expulsion and transferred 5 members of the union to investigation after stopping them from work.
The workers expressed their concerns about the dissolution of the union, just as it happened with the union of workers at the Dubai Port and Cleopatra Ceramics, which were established with their union in the industrial zone northwest of the Gulf of Suez.
It was also reported that the National Steel Industries was owned by the Sawiris family.
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