#workers strike
Textile workers at the Nile Cotton Ginning Company (NCGC) in Mahalla al-Kobra, located in the Nile Delta, went on strike Sunday demanding the payment of overdue salaries. The protesting workers, who shut down the company headquarters, claimed that the head of the company’s board of directors Abdel Moneim El Sarfi arbitrarily decided to cancel their salary bonuses and only pay their basic wage of EGP 400. Speaking to privately owned Masr al-Arabiya, one of the workers said he is not…