The Iron and Steel Factory workers threatened to take action if the management does not provide coal to run the fourth furnace that was stopped.
Mostafa Nayed of the workers committee said the workers' three-month bonus is contingent upon running the furnace again. “The private sector businessmen obstruct modernization and development operations of public sector companies,” he said.
He also said that the workers do not get LE8,000 per month as the investments minister said. “Wages range between LE1,000 and LE5,000 per month,” he said.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
