1.0 link 65693 <![CDATA[Blogging Egypt's Factory Strikes]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/freddy-deknatel/blogging-egypts-factory-s_b_65693.html Whether or not this is picked up in the American press shouldn't matter. It's a story to pay attention to, however you can.

The textile factory at Ghazl el-Mahalla in the Nile Delta is Egypt's largest, with over 27,000 workers. Nearly all of the factory's workers went on strike last December to demand their yearly bonuses, which had been withheld and which provide most of their annual salary.

On Sunday, some 10,000 of those factory workers went on strike again, demanding 150-day...

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