{"id":831,"date":"2013-10-16T00:36:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T00:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/2013\/10\/16\/mahalla-textile-workers-continue-sit-in\/"},"modified":"2013-10-16T00:36:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T00:36:13","slug":"mahalla-textile-workers-continue-sit-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/mahalla-textile-workers-continue-sit-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahalla Textile Workers Continue Sit-in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\t<em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/litci.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/egypt-mahala-strike.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Workers in Egypt&#8217;s largest public textile factory strike again over delay in bonus payment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThousands of workers at the Egyptian public sector Weaving and Textile Company in Mahalla industrial city maintained their strike, not responding to official declarations, saying their demand will be fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe workers started a sit-in on Wednesday to demand to be paid their bonus ahead of Eid holidays, which is to last from Monday to Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWorkers continued their strike despite the investment minister&rsquo;s statements to the media that the bonus would be paid on Sunday. &#8220;The payment check was not released; we will maintain our protest until we get paid,&#8221; Kamal El-Fayoumi, a worker who has become a renowned figure after playing a key role in strikes staged before Mubarak&rsquo;s ouster, told Ahram Online.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMahalla workers, totaling around 22,000, were promised they would receive a bonus equivalent of 45 days salary before the Eid as a part of a previous agreement. According to El-Fayoumi, 12,000 workers join the sit-in during the day and about 4,000 spent the night outside the factory.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe workers earlier this year concluded an agreement with the government that stipulates that a profit-sharing bonus payment on several installments be distributed equally to the employees of the Holding Company for weaving and spinning.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTwo installments were paid, one of which was a response to another sit-in that took place in August after a delay of payment. A fourth instalment is to be paid after the general assembly reunion planned in December.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>A long fighting tradition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tMahalla workers, with a long tradition of militancy, have led many strikes, both before and after the 25 January 2011 uprising. They commenced a wave of labour action in 2006, and again in 2008, representing an open challenge to the then-Mubarak regime.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn 2008, the Nile Delta city of Mahalla became home to the largest anti-regime protests of the 30-year Mubarak era.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBeginning as a workers&#8217; strike, protests grew into a widespread struggle following clashes with security forces. For the first time, images of a tarnished, trampled upon poster of Mubarak circulated on the Internet, signalling the beginning of the fall of Egypt&rsquo;s then-feared dictator.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tStrikes by Mahalla workers against ousted president Mubarak&rsquo;s regime gained widespread popularity and are believed by many activists and analysts in Egypt to have significantly contributed to setting the stage for the outbreak of the 25 January revolution.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSource: http:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/News\/83784.aspx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers in Egypt&#8217;s largest public textile factory strike again over delay in bonus payment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3015,"menu_order":2244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"litci_post_political_author":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-egypt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/litci.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/egypt-mahala-strike.jpg?fit=244%2C173&ssl=1","fimg_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/litci.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/egypt-mahala-strike.jpg?fit=244%2C173&ssl=1","categories_names":["Egypt"],"author_info":{"name":"litci","pic":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c5ccde5393ccb83747702c5ca92f55d8fdaf99be9432d0142571c6d437fbaadb?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"political_author":null,"tagline":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}