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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/strikes-continue-to-hamper-egypt.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Egypt's ruling military has warned unrest is hampering efforts to improve the economy and return life to normal (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-strikes-continue-to-hamper-egypt.jpg" alt="Egypt's ruling military has warned unrest is hampering efforts to improve the economy and return life to normal (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Industrial unrest unleashed by the turmoil in Egypt continued despite a warning by the ruling military that protests and strikes were hampering efforts to improve the economy and return life to normal.</p>
<p>Airport staff protested for better pay, textile workers went on strike to demand a corruption investigation and residents of a Suez Canal city pressed for closing a chemical factory they say is dumping toxic waste into a lake.</p>
<p>The military council on Wednesday issued its second statement in three days calling for an immediate halt to all labour unrest. The new warning raised expectations of an outright ban on protests and strikes that could raise the tension in a country already growing more nervous by the day over uncertainties about the future.</p>
<p>&#8220;We urge citizens and members of professional and labour unions to go on with their jobs, each in their position,&#8221; a text message sent to Egyptian mobiles from the military said.</p>
<p>So far, the warnings have been defied by people airing grievances everywhere over just about everything, from meagre wages to police brutality and corruption.</p>
<p>The council that took power from Hosni Mubarak on Friday said strikes and protests were hampering efforts to salvage the economy and return to normal life after the 18-day democracy revolt that forced the president out of office.</p>
<p>Egypt&#8217;s economy is in virtual paralysis with the unrest, facing extended bank and stock market closures and an evaporation of tourism &#8211; a key source of income for the country.</p>
<p>Hundreds of airport workers protested inside the arrivals terminal at Cairo International Airport to press demands for better wages and health coverage. The protest did not disrupt flights.</p>
<p>In the industrial Nile Delta city of Mahallah al-Koubra, workers from Egypt&#8217;s largest textile factory went on strike over pay and calls for an investigation into alleged corruption at the factory, according to labour rights activist Mustafa Bassiouni.</p>
<p>And in Port Said, a coastal city at the northern tip of the Suez Canal, about 1,000 people demonstrated to demand that a chemical factory be closed because it was dumping waste in a lake near the city.</p>
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