Around 250 workers (out of a total force 450) from Efco Food Industries are continuing their sit-in which they started two days, in Suez, demanding:

1-Their annual shares of profits which they haven’t received from 1999, the year the company was founded

2-Food allowance or a meal, as the workers are given neither

3-Health insurance, especially as industrial safety procedures is almost non-existent according to the workers, who say accidents and severe injuries (which lead to the amputation of limps) are common in the workplace.

4-Night-shifts allowance (badal wardeya): The company’s factory in Ataqa, Suez, operate 24/7 on three successive eight-hour daily shifts. The night shifts should have a higher pay than the morning shifts, but the company are paying flat rates.

5-From the total work force of 450, only 150 workers have contracts. The protesters are demanding contracts and job security

6-A worker by the name Fathi Afifi will be interrogated by an administrative penal board. The workers are demanding this move by the management to be revoked.

More later…