Thousands of workers at the Leoni Wiring Systems company in Egypt have gone on strike to protest low wages.

In response, the company's management has shut down ten factories indefinitely...

Its workers say their salaries should be raised to meet soaring food prices amid the cost of living crisis...

Factory workers have demanded that their salaries, incentives, bonuses and allowances be raised and that their health care allowance be expanded...

Staff in Leoni's Badr and Assiut branches are also standing in solidarity.

One of the striking workers told Mada Masr that staff were told by the management that they would not be raising any of their salaries.

Discontent swelled when the staff received their January pay packets and found that they were lower than what they were expecting.

According to the report in Mada Masr, the trade union committee is not supporting the strike and has said that it is illegal.