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Thursday 01 October 2009 State phone workers stage sit-in By Muhammad Azouz, Hisham Omar and Samah Abdel Ati

Some 1200 employees of the state-run Egyptian Telephone Company staged a sit-in recently in the Maasara region south of Cairo. Disgruntled workers complain that they have not received monthly salaries for September, Eid el-Fitr holiday bonuses or promised annual salary increases. Labor syndicate president Salah Heikal called on Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and Minister of Manpower Aisha Abdel Hadi to intervene in order to resolve the impasse. The Egyptian Telephone Company is owned by private investors (70 percent), the Egyptian Telecommunications Company (10 percent) and the National Bank of Egypt (10 percent). The remaining 10 percent is owned by the syndicate.