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Strike in Tanta (Egypt)

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Oct 1 2007 08:10
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I expect to see lots of stories like this in the coming weeks.

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Hours following the victory of Ghazl el-Mahalla strikers, hundreds of workers from the Tanta Linseed and Oils Company, staged a strike demanding their profit shares (unpaid for six months), an increase in their food allowance, and instating 200 workers who are on temporary work contracts. The company is owned by a private Saudi investor, and is located in the Nile Delta province of Gharbeia, where Mahalla is.
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Oct 2 2007 10:35
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Around 3600 tax officers in the Upper Egyptian town of Bani Sweif and the Nile Delta province of Sharqiya staged a sit-in Sunday, demanding improving their work conditions to match those of their colleagues in Cairo.

In the Nile Delta province of Daqahliya, civil servants in the Ministry of Education are threatening to strike over their exclusion from a govt work reform package…

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