Around 200 workers from the Tanta Flax and Oils Company staged a demonstration outside the Ministry of Manpower and Immigration in Cairo yesterday, marking the 80th day of their strike, demanding the re-nationalization of their company. Hundreds of their colleagues back in the Nile Delta have also announced their intention to launch a hunger strike as of tomorrow.
In Bangladesh, over 1,000 former workers, retrenched from Mongla Port due to new labour laws in 2008, began a non-stop sit-in protest Monday morning demanding the reintroduction of the call station booking system and payment of arrears.
Sixteen employees at 4Home Superstores in Co Cork, South West Ireland, staged a sit-in protest for more than 24 hours after being told that the outlet was to close the next day and that they would only receive statutory redundancy, despite many of the workers having been with the company for more than 25 years.
Around 55,000 auto-rickshaws in New Delhi went off the roads yesterday as part of a two-day strike to protest the government’s crackdown on drivers operating without permits, licenses and pollution control certificates.
Around 50 Dublin Port workers and their supporters picketed and distributed leaflets in the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) outside the offices of Deutsche Bank – a major shareholder in the port business. The dockers have been on strike for six weeks over plans by the UK firm Marine Terminals to axe 37 jobs.
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