Members of the independent Health Technicians’ Union which represents professional and technical workers in the health service such as radiographers and laboratory technicians organised a protest outside the Ministry of Health on 26 April. The union is leading a campaign for the Health Technology Institute to be upgraded to a College. Delegations of union members…
Representatives from the Higher Committee of Employees in the Postal Service in Egypt met on 15 April to discuss their on-going campaign in protest at the Minister of Communications’ refusal to agree to postal workers’ demands over the management of the postal service. The meeting also agreed to form a founding committee to complete the process of registration as an independent…
Following the fall of Mubarak, Egyptian health workers led a wave of strikes and protests demanding the removal of corrupt managers associated with the old regime, better pay and conditions, and the right to organise independent unions. Manshiyet el-Bakri Hospital in Cairo has been at the forefront of these struggles. A strike at the beginning…
Egyptian schoolteachers were at the forefront of the struggle to build independent unions in the year before the 25 January revolution and have played a key role in organising strikes since the fall of Mubarak. The Independent Teachers’ Syndicate was founded in July 2010 with a membership of around 5000. The new union called for…
Statement of demands by the Egyptian Independent Teachers Syndicate, April 2011 – original posted here Translation by Hannah El Sisi The Independent Teachers Syndicate submits on behalf of the union members of Egyptian teachers, and participants in the Egyptian revolution, the following demands to Dr. Essam Sharaf, Prime Minister: 1 – Amending the legislative structure…
Transport workers played a key role in the strikes which broke out in the final week of Mubarak’s rule, starting with the sit-in by 6,000 workers employed by several of the Suez Canal service companies on 8 February. Other significant strikes have included those by workers at the container terminal in Port Said on 27…
The Egyptian people showed immense courage in overthrowing the dictator Mubarak. They braved armoured cars and bullets in order to win freedom and social justice. We call on Egypt’s current military and civilian rulers to respect the Egyptian people’s democratic rights, including the right to protest and strike. We call on the Egyptian cabinet to…
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