Around 1000 workers in the privately-run Abul-Seba'e textile company started a strike today at 3pm, demanding their salaries, due over three months. The workers, led by young female workers, cut the highway in front of the factory after smashing the factory gate. The traffic was blocked from 4 to 7pm, during which the strikers clashed with the Central Security Forces, and destroyed at least three cars and a bus who hit one of the women strikers.

NDP MP Ezzat Derag showed up sometime between 5 to 7pm, and managed to convince the workers to clear the road, but failed (together with the senior police generals present, as the company neighbors a police barrack) to persuade them to end the industrial action.

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