For the second time on the row, the Mansoura-España Garments Company managment postponed the general assembly of shareholders. The first should have taken place on 30 May, but it was postponed to 7 July, only to be postponed again till “the end of the month” as the workers were told.

The meeting is expected to determine whether the United Bank will continue running the factory, or sell it to another investor within the framework of the agreement reached which ended the two-month factory occupation.

The workers are also coming under pressure from Said el-Gohary, the head of the General Union of Textile Workers, not to lobby for the rest of their rights (the unpaid bonuses and grants from 1999 to 2006) and wait till the shareholders’ assembly takes place.