Towels for Israel

"The company, which is located in Mahalla's Qualified Industrial Zone, produces towels and bathroom ropes for exports to the US, Israel, South Korea, according to Hamdi Hussein, the director of Afaq Center, a labor rights group. It neighbors an intersection of four major highways that run in the Nile Delta province. The company includes three factories on its compound, employing more than 8,000 workers according to striker Alaa Gameel. By 3:30pm, the workers' patience in the biggest of the three of factories ran out so they started chanting inside the factory gates. In half an hour, "the young women started it all," said Gameel. "They came from the other factories, and cut the highway and stopped the buses and cars. We were embarrassed, and couldn't leave them alone, so the men were encouraged to break the gate and join the women's protest."" (thanks Hossam)