Workers' Revolt Pays Off
Source: Emad Mekay, Inter Press Service News Agency, December 14, 2006
MAHALA EL-KOBRA, Egypt, (IPS) - More than 20,000 Egyptian textile workers have scored a rare win over plans to privatise their publicly-owned company, with a massive strike that forced the company's management and the pro-free market government to back down. Union leaders say the triumph has breathed life into the country's ailing labour movement, weakened by repeated hits from the government of President Hosni Mubarak. The last strike in this city was in 1988.