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…
Hisham Fouad, e-socialists.net 8 September 2011 (Translation by Shamal Ali, posted here) In a meeting held, an hour ago, between labour leaders and the Minister for Work force the voice of 22 000 Mahalla Textile Company workers was finally heard when the Egyptian military government yielded to their demands. This positive response…
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…
Postal workers at the Cairo office have decided to go on strike starting tuesday the 6th of september demanding higher wages, and the cleansing of their offices of all senior advisors and members of the NDP, the former fuling party; following weeks of strike action in provinces nationwide including: Menia, Qena, Ismailia, North Sinai, Alsharqiya,…
Post Offices in Sharkia, a province east of the delta, continue strike action on 28th August for the fourth day in a row. The strikes began with postal workers demanding equal benefits to what their counterparts receive at Telecom Egypt regarding a 200% bonus as well as demanding that their institution be purged of all…
MENA Solidarity Network 