By KAREEM FAHIM and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: February 9, 2011

CAIRO -- Labor strikes and worker protests that flared across Egypt on Wednesday affected post offices, textile factories and even the government's flagship newspaper, providing a burst of momentum to protesters demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, even as his government pushed back with greater force against the opponents' demands.
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More than 2,000 workers from the Sigma pharmaceutical company in Quesna began a strike while about 5,000 unemployed youths stormed a government building in Aswan, demanding the dismissal of the governor.

Postal workers protested in shifts, Ms. Refaat said. In Cairo, sanitation workers demonstrated outside their headquarters.

In Al Ahram's lobby, journalists called their protest a microcosm of the Egyptian uprising, with young journalists leading demands for better working conditions and less biased coverage.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/world/middleeast/10egypt.html

Freed by Egypt's Revolt, Workers Press Demands

By KAREEM FAHIM
Published: February 16, 2011

CAIRO -- Egyptian workers and the country's military chiefs squared off again on Wednesday as strikes and labor protests spread to the Cairo airport and the nation's largest textile factory, despite pleas by the military for people to get back to work.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/world/middleeast/17labor.html

Suez Canal Workers Join Broad Strikes in Egypt

By ANTHONY SHADID
Published: February 17, 2011

CAIRO -- Hundreds of workers went on strike on Thursday along the Suez Canal, one of the world's strategic waterways, joining others across Egypt pressing demands for better wages and conditions. The protests have sent the economy reeling and defied the military's attempt to restore a veneer of the ordinary after President Hosni Mubarak's fall last week.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/world/middleeast/18egypt.html