Workers at the Nasr Company for Textiles (Kabo) in Alexandria, continue their strike for the 11th day, with over 4000 workers on strike today, until their demands are met. Their demands include: 1 – The removal of management (Amin Abaza, former Minister of Agriculture – Hamada Qalyouby Secretary of the NDP in Qalyobia and one…
The Independent Union for Public Transport in Cairo has announced a general strike on Sunday the 28th of August, protesting corruption and demanding workers’ bonuses be paid as well as demanding that all transfer payments to all police individuals within the Public Transport Authority be stopped, union general secretary Ali Fattouh put such payments at…
Last night, transport drivers for the Helwan Steel Company went on indefinite strike until management fulfill the workers’ demands. The workers are demanding a 20% rise in their wages as well as a 3 shift system of 8 hours each. One worker said, “drivers here are penalized constantly, when a worker gets involved in an accident usually due…
Egyptian Independent Union Federation 12 August 2011 Solidarity Statement The Egyptian Independent Union Federation declares its solidarity with workers who are facing dismissal and victimisation as a result of their efforts to found independent unions in their workplaces. The Federation will do everything in its power to defend the rights of workers in the petroleum…
Egyptian Independent Union Federation 12 August 2011 The Egyptian Independent Union Federation declares its complete support for the legitimate demands of Egyptian teachers, as expressed by the campaign led by the Independent Teachers’Unionover the following issues: The resignation of the Minister of Education, a member of the Political Secretariat of the dissolved ruling party The…
Co-ordinated strikes by train drivers demanding a rise in their bonuses brought much of the Egyptian rail network to halt for seven hours on 17 August. Drivers staged sit-ins across the tracks at a number of stations including Alexandria, Tanta, Zagazig and Cairo’s mainline Ramsis Station. Military police moved in to break up the sit-in…
A public transport strike last week in the Tunisian capital, brought the capital virtually to a halt, with 80% of all bus and metro workers on strike the city came to a standstill. The strike was called for by the new independent Union for Public Transport Workers, the assistant General Secretary of the union Hassan…
Independent unions at six hospitals have taken their first steps towards regular co-ordination. Representatives from Manshiyet al-Bakri Hospital, Al-Du’aa Hospital, Al-Zawiya al-Hamra Hospital, Al-Abbasiyya Mental Health Hospital, Al-Munira Hospital and Al-Haram Hospital issued a statement on 9 August pledging to meet regularly in order to build the independent unions across the health sector. They will…
A series of hospital strikes gripped Aleppo late in July, following the arrest of one doctor at a hospital in the city. The strikes started with 100 resident doctors going on strike at El-Razi hospital in Aleppo on 26 July, after their colleague, dentist Ayman Henawy, was arrested by security forces at the hospital. Aleppo…
Over 9000 civil registry workers in Egypt announced a nation-wide indefinite strike at the end of July. The strikes gradually swept through Egypt from Cairo and Giza to Alexandria and Aswan, until a nation-wide indefinite strike to include all 26 provinces was announced on the 27th of July. The striking workers are demanding their wages…
MENA Solidarity Network 