Workers from the Tanta Flax and Oils Company who are staging a sit-in before the Council of Ministers escalated their protests on Wednesday by staging another sit-in at the at the Egyptian Trade Union Federation, demanding that federation president Hussein Megawer help resolve their problem.
The workers say the government sold their company to a Saudi investor who laid them off.
Minister of Manpower Aisha Abdel Hadi remarked that the workers had no right to protest.
Saeed el-Gohary, head of the Spinning and Weaving Syndicate, said he is in constant contact with the protesters.
"The minister pressed me to end the workers’ first strike," he said. "And she knows very well that the company management did not abide to the deal we had reached then."
The protesters criticized their representatives in parliament for failing to resolve their problem. "They were just clever in collecting our votes in the elections," the protesters said.
Translated from the Arabic Edition.
