Workers Go on Strike in Major Industrial Sector

In the Nile Delta industrial city of Mahalla-al-Kubra, 27,000 workers of the public sector Mahalla Spinning and Weaving Company went on strike on September 23 after the management denied them up to 150 days pay in dividends, incentives, and target-meeting bonuses. The strike lasted for one week, and is considered to be the largest strike in the last two decades. The government was forced to accept some of the workers demands to end the crisis. The city of

Mahalla

was under tight security for a week as solidarity strikes and rallies spread across the country. Mahalla is known as the bastion of the textile industry in

Egypt

.