UPDATED 29 September Doctors are the latest to join the wave of strikes which has rolled across Egypt over the past month. Read more here about their struggle for social justice. Over the weekend of 15-16 September there were strikes by workers in 20 universities, a national teachers’ strike, action by Cairo bus workers, textile […]
July 1, 2012
Around 300 UK and international trade unionists have signed a statement condemning recent attacks by the Egyptian military on democratic freedoms. Signatories to the statement include PCS union general secretary Mark Serwotka, teachers’ union leader Christine Blower, and Labour MPs John McDonnell and Katy Clark. Statement We note with grave concern recent developments in Egypt […]
July 1, 2012
وقعت نحو 300 قيادة عمالية ونقابية بريطانية وفي مقدمتهم مارك سيروتكا سكرتير عام للنقابة العامة لموظفين الحكومة وأعضاء اللجنة التنفيذية للنقابة وكريستين بلور سكرتير عام لنقابة المعلمين في بريطانيا وقيادات من عمال البناء وعمال النفط غيرهم من النقابيين على عريضة تضامنية مع القوى الثورية في مصر. يدين النقابيين هجوم المجلس العسكري على الحريات الديمقراطية ويؤكد […]
June 21, 2012
Statement: No to the military coup in Egypt We note with grave concern recent developments in Egypt including the decision on 14 June 2012 by the Higher Constitutional Court to dissolve parliament and allow the candidate of the old regime, Ahmad Shafiq, to contest the presidential election. The court decision followed the announcement of a […]
May 27, 2012
MENA Solidarity Network is delighted to welcome the PCS as the third national union to affiliate to the network. Delegates at the PCS Annual Conference in Brighton voted overwhelmingly on 24 May to support a motion calling on the union to back the struggles of workers in the Middle East for social justice and democracy, […]
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 18, 2012
Two leading activists in the Egyptian Property Tax Collectors’ Union recorded these messages to PCS members in the UK. My name is Nagat Ragab Mohammed from the Property Tax Collectors Union. I am deputy president of the union in Giza and a member of the national executive. I am also deputy president of the Women’s […]
May 12, 2012
Belfast – NIPSA Union members بالفاست في إرلاندا الشمالية – أعضاء نقابة للعاملين بالخدمات العامة فى 10 مايو اضرب عن العمل الاف من العاملين بالقطاع العام و بالحكومة البريطانية للمطالبة بوقف رفع سن التقاعد و عدم الاستقطاع من اموال المعاشات. ارسل العمال المضربين اثناء اضرابهم رسالات تضامن مع المعتقليين فى مصر كما ارسلوا ايضا(هم و […]
May 12, 2012
Dozens of leading activists in the British public sector trade unions on strike on May 10 against cuts in their pensions signed a statement in solidarity with detainees arrested during the recent crackdown on protest by the military in Egypt. Signatories include the General Secretary of the PCS union representing civil servants, Mark Serwotka, and […]
May 10, 2012
Striking public sector workers sent a message to Egypt’s ruling military today from pickets right at the heart of government. They called for an end to military trials for civilians, the release of protesters detained last week in Abbassiya, and the repeal of laws criminalising strikes and protests. From the Inland Revenue, to Whitehall and […]
September 18, 2012
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