CAIRO, Dec 15 (Aswat Masriya) - Dozens of workers at Egypt's Iron and Steel holding company staged a protest on Sunday outside the cabinet headquarters in Cairo, saying they will not break up their sit-in outside the company, unless their demands are met.

The sit-in, which lasted for 19 days until now, was reportedly dispersed on Saturday but the company's administration has denied that in a statement published on the state-owned Middle East News Agency.

The workers demand the dismissal of the company's chief executive, the importing of raw coal for the factory, the return of their colleagues who had been arbitrarily transferred and that they obtain a 16 months-worth of profit shares.

Moustafa Nayed, leading worker activist, said that the workers would also stage a sit-in outside the cabinet's headquarters along with their original sit-in as their demands had not been met, in a phone interview with Aswat Masriya.

The workers were supposed to receive their profit shares in November.

A statement has circulated earlier that the workers had ended their sit-in after concluding a written agreement with the government that answered to their demands.