Tens of Ma’adi garbage collectors demonstrated in front of Cairo’s Cleaning Authorities in Abassiya Square on Monday demanding their fees from the private company “Europe 2000,” which runs the garbage collection and street cleaning operation’s in Cairo’s southern upscale neigborhood. The workers told Al-Masry Al-Youm that they have not been paid since since 2004, and are subject to royalties and intimidation from the company and the municipal authorities.

In other developments, Al-Wafd reported that 500 hospital workers have gone on strike in El-Haram Hospital, in Giza on Tuesday morning, after not receiving their salaries for two months.

And on another front, the signatories to the Mahalla Textile workers petition to dissolve their Factory Committee (after the latter conspired with the management during last December’s strike) have exceeded 15,000–even more than the number required by labor law to dissolve their union. The workers, according to socialist sources, have announced either the government-controlled General Federation of Trade Unions accept their petition, or the workers will resign en masse from the union, stop paying their membership fees…. and form a new independent labor union.

Again, keep your eyes on Mahalla. More interesting developments are expected in the next couple of weeks…