Misr Spinning and Weaving employees strike to demand increase in food stipends, social allowance

As many as 4,500 Misr Spinning and Weaving employees across six factories are striking to demand an increase in their food stipends and the retroactive disbursal of a 10% increase in their social allowance from 2012, one of the striking workers told Al Mal. The workers are also demanding that the company approve delayed promotions and vowed to escalate to a full strike across the company’s 18 factories if their demands are not met. Workers at an Americana factory are also holding a strike after the company’s management decided to lay off 500 workers, the newspaper reports.