Via Teachersolidarity.com (picture from @alkoga) Teachers in Egypt are coninuing to struggle for decent salaries and permanent contracts Teachers who started their strike on Sunday, are contining their struggle to see the demands of last year’s strike met, proper funding for public education in Egypt and an end to privatisation. Teachers have set up tents…
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…
Striking public transport workers in Cairo vowed to escalate their strike action after the president of their independent union, Tareq al-Beheiry and several colleagues were arrested on charges of ‘incitement to strike’. The PTA workers are fighting for the return of the Public Transport Authority to Ministry of Transport control from the Governorate of Cairo,…
Co-ordinated national strike action by university workers across Egypt greeted the first day of the new academic year. The Coalition of University Workers set 15 – 17 September as strike days, and planned escalation to an open-ended sit-in outside the Cabinet offices on 18 September. The Coalition represents non-academic staff and is calling for equalisation…
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…
Guest blog by David Paenson in Cairo 15 September 2012 Politics meets Economics Spent Friday afternoon with teachers’ picket in front of the education ministry. Their picket is only one among many up and down the country. Today will be their first actual national strike day. Teachers are demanding 3000 Egyptian Pounds monthly salary (300…
Leaders of the independent teachers’ unions called on their colleagues across Egypt to strike on the first day of the new school year, 15 September as teachers’ protests escalated over the past week. For the past week teachers have been encamped outside the Cabinet Offices in central Cairo, demanding an end to the ’empty promises’…
Extracts from a statement by the Egyptian Teachers’ Federation at the teachers’ sit-in outside the cabinet offices 10 September 2012 “Once again teachers have restarted their revolution, in order to demand a radical and comprehensive solution to the issue of their wages, which have declined and are the lowest not only in Egypt but across…
David Paenson in Cairo This afternoon crossed Tahrir Square, but it was quite empty. Then this surprise: The first strike day of employees of state run Middle East News Agency. I spoke to one of the strike organizers, Sherif Eltokhey. MENA, the Egyptian equivalent of Reuters, employs 1200 journalists spread around the world. 500 work…
Mahdi Abu Deeb, President of the Bahraini Teachers’ Association, and Jalila Al Salman, BTA are due in the appeal court on 9 September. Last year, the two union leaders were sentenced to 10 and 3 years in prison for taking part in pro-democracy demonstrations in 2011. Recent appeal verdicts have upheld harsh sentences against other…
MENA Solidarity Network 