The Public Transport Authority bus workers’ all-out strike entered its second day with growing support from workers. Press reports said that 20 of the city’s 24 garages were open, and around two thousand striking workers rallied outside the Public Transport Authority Headquarters, before marching to the cabinet offices for a protest, alongside striking doctors and…
Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions Press Release – 21 September 2011 All out strike in Public Transport Authority Bus Garages Security services attempt to abort the strike by arresting the leaders of the independent union An all out strike began this morning in the Public Transport Authority Bus Garages after the failure of management…
رسالة التضامن من معلمين في اسلينجتون بلندن إلى الأخوات والإخوة في مصر. نشارك حالياً بمعركة مع حكومة الإئتلاف حزب المحافظين وحزب الليبرالي الديمقراطي في بريطانيا التي يحاول بكل قوتها بتفرض على العاملين بالأجر ثمن الأزمة الإقتصادية سببوها أصحاب العمل والبنوك. شاركنا بإضراب ناجح يوم 30 يونيو الماضي مع 700000 عامل من أجل دفاعاً بالنظام المعاش…
Open letter in solidarity with Egyptian teachers As the new school term starts across Egypt tens of thousands of teachers are on strike. They are demanding: The resignation of the Education Minister, a leading figure in Mubarak’s old ruling party Improvements in their pay – they want £164 per month guaranteed without having to do…
Egypt’s first national teachers’ strike since 1951 has seen strong support from schools across the country, despite threats from the government and reports of harassment of striking teachers by the security forces. Teachers’ main demands are the resignation of the education minister, a senior figure in the former ruling party, and improvements in wages and…
As thousands of workers continue to strike in the Upper Egyptian Sugar Refineries over pay, work conditions, as well as purging the company of the management from the remnants of Mubarak’s regime. The strikers, seen in the video above, also accuse the management of clientalism to the US and Israel, and chant for “open strikes till…
Over the past week thousands of Students and Workers at the American University in Cairo have been staging an ongoing sit-in and partial strike protesting unjustified increases in fees, corruption in management, low workers wages, the issue of workers without contract or medical and social security benefits, the resignation of various officials at the university…
From Gigi Ibrahim’s YouTube channel: “The AUC Strike (DDC workers, Security Staff, Custodial workers, & Students) enter into day 4 with no adequate response from the administration to the righteous demands of the strikers. Thus the students decided on day 4 to occupy area in front of president Lisa Anderson’s office in the administration building…
Up to 40,000 teachers from across Egypt demonstrated outside the parliament buildings on Saturday 10 September, calling for the resignation of the Minister of Education and pay increases. They came in huge delegations from practically every town and city in the country to take their message to the government. One banner summed up the militant…
Hundreds of staff and students at the American University in Cairo (AUC) took part in joint protests on 11 September. Security officers and other staff at the university’s new campus are demanding wage rises while students are fighting a 9 percent rise in tuition fees. More details online here. Send messages of support for…
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