POINTER sense to read the newspaper in Medan armored vehicles near Tahrir, yesterday.
Cairo: Workers at the biggest factories in Egypt last night out together to launch a strike in support of anti-government protesters to demand salary increases.
Workers at the Egypt textile factory - which have 24,000 employees in the city of Al-Mahalla al-Kubra in the Nile Delta - the factory building and lock the crowds gathered in front of the administrative building of the factory.
"We launched strikes primarily to show solidarity with protesters in the field ut-Tahrir, a major focus of anti-government demonstrations in Cairo,"said a strike organizer, Faisal Naousha to the media.
"We also wanted a court order to abolish the minimum wage be implemented," he said.
Misr Company is the largest public service sector and the textile industry in Egypt represents 48 percent of the total workforce in the country, according to the Center for Trade Union and Workers Services (CTUWS).
A security official said, tens of thousands of workers in the public sector strike in the city of Alexandria, Suez city and town in the north and the Red Sea coast.
"Since the anti-government demonstrations broke out across the country on January 25 and demanded that President Hosni Mubarak end the reign of 30 years, we began to hear government officials have billions of dollars in their personal accounts.
"Many employees feel that it is time for us to rise up and claim our rights," he said.
Anti-government strikes and demonstrations still continue despite the new Egyptian government promised to raise salaries and pensions of civil servants by 15 percent, one of several measures taken to stop the demonstrations that took place.
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