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Egyptian textile workers’ strike shows growing anger at regime’s austerity
Revolutionary history relived: The Mahalla strike of 6 April 2008 - Politics - Egypt
Thousands of textile workers strike at Egypt's largest industrial plant in Mahalla al-Kubra
Mahalla textile workers hold strikes
Strike at Mahalla textile factory enters third day in Egypt
Thousands of workers strike for higher wages at Ghazl al-Mahalla factory
Mahalla textile owners, workers threaten to start open-ended strike
Workers in Egypt strike and occupy for a pay rise
Thousands of workers at Mahalla spinning company escalate strike, bosses refuse to consider demands until they resume work
Thousands of workers at Misr Spinning and Weaving Company in the Nile Delta city Mahalla al-Kubra staged a rally at the company's...
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A horse-drawn cart sends ripples down a flooded street in one of Mahalla's many working-class neighborhoods. Around the corner, a group of...
Mahalla textile workers hold strikes
By Doaa Farid. About 500 workers in the publically-owned Weaving and Textile Company in Mahalla city went on a partial strike on Monday,...
Egyptian textile workers’ strike shows growing anger at regime’s austerity
Around 3,000 textile workers in Mahalla, northern Egypt, walked out on Tuesday in a sign of growing discontent at spiralling living costs.
Strike at Mahalla textile factory enters third day in Egypt
Workers complain government promise of boost to textile industry not followed through Mahalla has frequently been a focal point for militant trade union...
Thousands of workers strike for higher wages at Ghazl al-Mahalla factory
Workers at Ghazl al-Mahalla are on strike for higher wages and fairer bonuses. Around 7,000 workers gathered on Saturday morning in the...
Mahalla textile owners, workers threaten to start open-ended strike
Owners and workers of several textile factories in Mahalla vowed to start an open-ended strike, threatening further escalation,...
Revolutionary history relived: The Mahalla strike of 6 April 2008 - Politics - Egypt
Textile workers, activists and citizens of the Nile Delta city of Mahalla share their memories of the 6 April 2008 strike, regarded now as a...
Workers in Egypt strike and occupy for a pay rise
Textile workers in Egypt, who hose strikes fed into the 2011 Egyptian Revolution are on strike again. This comes amid more bombing of Yemen.
Thousands of textile workers strike at Egypt's largest industrial plant in Mahalla al-Kubra
Workers have been on strike at the largest state textile factory in Egypt, the Misr Spinning and Weaving Company (MSWC) mill, since Thursday.
Mahalla textile workers' strikes
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Series of major labor protests by textile workers in al-Mahalla al-Kubra (notably 2006–2008 and 2011–2013) over wages, working conditions and privatization a focal point for independent labor organizing and broader political protest.