Blacklisted construction workers and their union leaders are the latest to show solidarity with Bahraini healthworkers imprisoned in the clampdown after the 2011 uprising. At the Blacklist Support Group AGM on 23 March, union activists took time out from discussions of their own campaign against vicitimisations and sackings by multinational construction companies to send a […]
March 4, 2013
Around fifty doctors and medical students at the March seminar of the Medical Practitioners Union section of UNITE expressed support for imprisoned Bahraini medics and health workers. Holding up signs with the names of seven medics and health workers who were jailed and tortured during the crackdown which followed the 2011 uprising, they pledged their […]
December 10, 2012
Statement from United Left in Unite the Union 8 December 2012 عربي We declare our solidarity with our. Egyptian brothers and sisters who are fighting to defend the freedoms they won in the 25 January Revolution. We strongly condemn the attacks on peaceful protesters opposing the draft Constitution, and the assault by the Egyptian government […]
December 10, 2012
Statement by United Left in Unite the Union condemns attacks on demonstrators against the constitution in Egypt (read the English here) بيان من منظمة اليسار المتحدة بنقابة يونيت البريطانية نعلن كامل تضامنا مع إخوتنا و أخواتنا المصريين الذين يناضلون للدفاع عن الحريات المكتسبة في ثورة 25 يناير. نحن ندين بشدة الهجمات على المتظاهرين السلميين المعارضين […]
November 6, 2012
A delegation of activists from UK and Irish trade unions visited Cairo 29 Oct-4 Nov with MENA Solidarity network. Ian Bradley an electrician and UNITE union activist; Mary Compton from the NUT and Teachersolidarity.com; Colm Bryce, a UCU activist in Derry, and Anne Alexander from MENA Solidarity Network took part in the visit. If you […]
October 1, 2012
Dear Brothers and Sisters The following doctors, health workers, and organisations express solidarity with the Egyptian Doctors Strike which happened today 1st October 2012. We support your demands for increasing the health spending to 15% of the state budget, for better security for hospital staff and patients, and a minimum wage for medical doctors of […]
September 18, 2012
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 […]
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 […]
July 4, 2012
أخذت نقابة يونيت التي تمثل 1.5 مليون عامل في بريطانيا وأيرلندا القرار التالي في مناقشة عن مصر خلال مؤتمرها 25-28 يونيو 2012 مصر يدين مؤتمر نقابة يونيت في بريطانيا وأيرلندا قرارات الأخيرة للمجلس الأعلى للقوات المسلحة في مصر التي تركزت السلطة التشريعية والتنفيذية والقضائية في أيدي الجنرالات غير المنتخبين وتشمل هذه القرارات حل مجلس الشعب […]
July 4, 2012
The following emergency resolution was passed at UNITE the union’s policy conference 25-28 June 2012. Emergency resolution on Egypt Unite conference condemns recent moves by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in Egypt which concentrate legislative, executive and judicial power in the hands of unelected generals. These include the dissolution of parliament, the removal […]
March 24, 2013
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