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What will become of the workers in Cabry Company?
LCHR has received a complaint from the members of the syndicate committee on behalf of the workers in Cabry Company before selling it to Misr Bank. The complaint states that the company has deprived its workers from their salaries and refused to pay them their financial dues. The workers indicate in their complaint that they have been struggling for a year aiming to keep the company working and prevent selling it to guarantee themselves a decent working opportunity, especially under the current economic crisis that the country is passing through. Unfortunately, the Minister of Work Force and the head of Egypt's Workers Union have neglected the workers complaints and accepted the decision to relieve 50 workers to retirement on pension from a total of 174 workers, these 50 workers have received a premium of 4 months salary for each year they have worked on the condition that they sign a form to cede all their financial rights.
The LCHR presents the complaints of these workers to the Prime Minister to allow the company to continue working, stop firing the workers, pay them their late financial dues and treat them using the health insurance that they pay.
LCHR also calls all CSOs to unite in solidarity with these workers in their hearing session to be held on 22/8/2006 before the administrational judiciary court no. 2075/60, in order to guarantee them and their families a suitable working opportunity and a decent life.
For more information, please contact the Center.