NYMHM special edition: "Egypt Gripped by Massive Strike"

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   "Egypt Gripped by Massive Strike"
   Newsdesk.org, September 27, 2007
   http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/004411.html
   
   While the world focuses on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's 
   repression of journalists and the Muslim Brotherhood party, 
   a different sort of social unrest has boiled over at a state-
   owned textile mill in Mahalla el-Kubra, where tens of 
   thousands of strikers have brought work to a costly 
   standstill. 

   The BBC notes that a similar strike last December at the mill 
   led to sympathy strikes across Egypt, causing the government 
   to "back down and meet the workers' demands" for higher pay 
   and better profit sharing. 

   Now, an estimated 27,000 workers have taken over the factory 
   in Mahalla, a town north of Cairo on the Nile Delta ... 
   
   GET THE WHOLE STORY: 
   
   http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/004411.html


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