Protests and strikes by workers at Cairo airport over the last week forced the ruling military council in Egypt to appoint a civilian head of the airport for the first time in fifty years. A lightning strike by airport workers on 20 July, during which hundreds of strikers blocked the main road to Cairo, called…
(picture by Hossam el-Hamalawy: Transport workers protest outside the trial of their union president, Ali Fattouh) More than 30 independent unions and human rights organisations called on Egypt’s government to amend the draft bill on trade union freedoms and to ensure that its provisions quickly become law. A statement issued by trade unionists meeting at…
A detailed report by members of the UK trade union delegation to Cairo May 2011 organised by MENA Solidarity Network, written by members of the UCU, RMT, PCS, CWU and NUT unions. Click below for pdf version MENASolidarity_Egyptindependentunions Copies are also available to order for £2 each (+p&p) from menasolidarity@gmail.com
Egyptian Independent Union Federation Letter to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces 28 June 2011 We present this letter to you in the name of the independent unions which were set up before the glorious revolution in the face of opposition from the State Security apparatus, the dissolved National Democratic Party, and the Egyptian…
Egyptian Independent Union Federation 28 June 2011 Statement In light of the growing controversy about the independent trade unions and malicious accusations and allegations aimed at undermining the Egyptian workers’ movement and the trade unions which it created, we, the representatives of the independent unions, are signing this statement of the fundamental principles on which…
President of the Egyptain tax collectors’ union, Kamal Abou Aita, with striking tax collectors in London, 30 June
On Saturday 25 June, the verdict was announced in the case against Ali Fattouh, president of the Independent Public Transport Authority Workers’ Union. Ali was found ‘not guilty’ by the court – a clear victory of the union and the workers’ movement as a whole. We received the following statement from his lawyer, Haitham Muhammadain…
قدم وفد من النقابيين البريطانيين بياناً إلى السفارة المصرية بلندن اليوم بتوقيعات 400 نقابيين بينهم سكرتير عام لنقابة موظفي الحكومة مارك سيروتكا وسكرتير عام لنقابة عمال السكك الحديد والنقل والنقل البحري بوب كرو وجريمي دير سكرتير عام لنقابة الصحافيين. وقالت كاتي كلارك نائبة بالبرلمان البريطاني لحزب العمال إن “أنا هنا أمام السفارة المصرية إعتباراً أن…
A delegation of trade unionists representing teachers, transport workers, civil servants and students joined Labour MP Katy Clark today to hand a petition to the Egyptian embassy calling on the Egyptian government to lift th e ban on strikes and protests. Over 400 leading trade unionists from the UK have signed the petition, including Mark…
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