Egypt’s new government has launched the most serious set of attacks on workers’ rights since the days of Mubarak, according to activists in the independent unions. Hundreds of trade unionists have been sacked from their jobs for trade union activities since the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi won the presidential elections in June, and the pressure […]
September 18, 2012
Striking public transport workers in Cairo vowed to escalate their strike action after the president of their independent union, Tareq al-Beheiry and several colleagues were arrested on charges of ‘incitement to strike’. The PTA workers are fighting for the return of the Public Transport Authority to Ministry of Transport control from the Governorate of Cairo, […]
September 17, 2012
رسالة التضامن النشطاء بنقابة يونيت في بريطانيا مع عمال النقل العام بالقاهرة نؤكد تضامننا مع إضرابكم المشروع. نقف معكم بالمعركة من أجل الأجور العادلة ومن أجل الخدمات العامة النصر لإضراب عمال النقل العام! ايان اللنسون – عضو باللجنة التنفيذية لنقابة يونيت والي بلاك اندرو اوزي ازيبورن روسال ونكوب كارل تايلور مزيد من الصور هنا A […]
June 28, 2012
Thousands of bus drivers across London took strike action on Friday 22 June to demand a bonus for the Olympics. MENA Solidarity activists visited the picket lines at four garages, bringing a message of support from bus workers in Cairo for the strike and asked the strikers to send back a message of solidarity to […]
June 17, 2012
Na’amat Gaber, one on the founders of the Independent Union of Workers in the Maintenance and Technical Works Co. at Cairo Airport talks about why she is a trade unionist, and what the revolution means to her. Workers at Cairo International Airport and the Civil Aviation Ministry have organised a courageous campaign against Ahmad Shafiq, […]
April 10, 2012
A message from Cairo bus workers to colleagues in Unite on the buses in London who are discussing strike action over their bonuses. A recent strike by 45,000 bus workers in the Public Transport Authority in Cairo won large increases in a lump sum on retirement, and promises by the government to look into workers’ […]
March 28, 2012
يرسل المعلمين المضربين في لندن تحيات التضامن إلى عمال هيئة النقل العام في القاهرة. يضرب 70 الف مدرس وأستاذ الجامعة عن العمل اليوم إحتجاجاً على هجوم الحكومة البريطاينة ضد نظام المعاش. يقول نيك جرانت من نقابة المعلمين في بريطانيا “تسرق الحكومة أموالنا بعد المعاش ومن مرتباتنا اليوم . إضرابنا اليوم معركة في نضال مستمر من […]
March 27, 2012
Despite ongoing attempts by the military to break their strike, bus workers in Cairo rejected a proposed deal on Monday 26 March. The workers are demanding a lump sum on retirement equivalent to 100 months pay, and for the bus service to be taken over the Ministry of Transport. To send a message of solidarity […]
March 23, 2012
Thousands of workers at the Public Transport Authority in Cairo are continuing their strike. The bus workers are fighting against corruption in the PTA, for better pay and conditions, and for investment in the public transport system. They have been asking how come the PTA makes millions of pounds in profits while bus workers earn […]
March 4, 2012
The leaders of the Independent Public Transport Authority Workers Union which represents tens of thousands of bus workers in Cairo were ambushed and seriously injured in an incident at the Public Transport Authority Headquarters in Nasr City, Cairo on 29 February. Adel al-Shazly, the independent union president, Mohammed Abd-al-Sattar, union treasurer and Tareq Mohammed al-Sayyid, […]
October 18, 2012
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