Activists from MENA Solidarity Network visited Cairo and Alexandria 3-8 June to meet activists from the independent unions and hear about the latest developments in the revolution. Sheila McGregor and Sally Kincaid from the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and Anne Alexander and Nadine el-Enany from the University and Colleges Union (UCU) met colleagues from […]
May 21, 2012
Sue Bond, Vice President of PCS union in the UK sends a message to colleagues in the independent civil service unions in Egypt, responding to greetings from Nahla Mohammed Abd-al-Azim and Nagat Ragab Mohammed from the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions Women’s Committee. سو باند نائبة رئيس النقابة العامة للعاملين بالخدمات العامة والتجارية في […]
May 3, 2012
(Click on ‘CC’ for English subtitles) The Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions reported today that striking workers from the General Tax Authority were attacked during their sit-in and their tents destroyed. Watch the video above for background to the strike – Tax Authority workers have been involved in a long-running battle over corruption. Rush […]
May 1, 2012
On the second May Day since the fall of Mubarak hundreds of activists from the independent unions and the Left took to the streets in Cairo and other cities across Egypt. Local demonstrations took place in Alexandria, Al-Mansoura, Zagazig, Suez among other cities. The statement below explains what they are demanding: ‘May is the month […]
February 6, 2012
Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions Statement 1 – 2012 The bloody events in Port Sa’id The Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions has followed the terrible massacre which took place in the stadium at Port Sa’id and which left its victims among the innocent young people who came to watch a football match and […]
January 23, 2012
The Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions has called for workers to join a protest on 23 January, as the newly-elected Egyptian parliament opens. A demonstration will start from the Federation offices off the nearby Qasr al-Aini street at 12 noon on 23 Jan and march to the parliament buildings. In a call for the […]
December 2, 2011
Leaflet by EFITU being distributed in Tahrir Square today, 2 December No to al-Ganzoury’s cabinet appointments … No to ‘yellow’ trade unions In the context of the Military Council’s continued counter-revolutionary campaign, and in particular its insistence that Al-Ganzoury must form a government, despite the demand by the revolutionaries of Tahrir Square for a national […]
September 6, 2011
Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions 5 September 2011 Over the coming few days hundreds of thousands of workers will exercise their right to strike and organise sit-ins, in defiance of all attempts to intimidate them and prevent them from exercising these rights, such as the law criminalising strikes and protests. The 22,000 textile workers […]
June 12, 2012
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