Solidarity action co-ordinated by Canadian doctors and health workers – Support the doctors’ march to Tahrir Square, 10 June The Egyptian health-care system only receives 3.5 per cent of GDP. Doctors work under state-controlled unions led by corrupt officials with ties to the Mubarak regime, which have prevented them from advocating for better health care…
4 June 2011 Translation of report by Ashraf Omar and Haitham Muhammadain (http://www.e-socialists.net/node/6969) The Disciplinary Court of the Presidency of the Republic today reserved judgement in the case against Ali Fattouh, president of the Cairo Independent Public Transport Workers Union, until its session on 25 June. Dozens of workers from the Public Transport Authority attended…
Doctors marched through the streets of Cairo on Sunday 29 May, demanding the resignation of the Minister of Health, in a protest called to keep the pressure on the government following their national strike on 17 May. The Doctors’ Higher Strike Committee met with representatives of the regional strike committees and issued a statement confirming…
This is a translation and adaption of an article by Mohamed Shafiq, member of the Higher Strike Committee of the Doctors’ Strike published a few days before the 17 May doctors’ strike. Original article here: http://www.e-socialists.net/node/6900 Send messages of support to the doctors’ strike here: atebaa@Gmail.com atebaa_bela_hokook@yahoo.com Mohamed Shafiq This article summarizes the views of…
Egyptian doctors began an indefinite strike on 17 May. The doctors stuck solidly for 24 hours on 10 May, and the authorities are already under pressure. Government ministers have hastily promised an increase in the health budget, although far, far less than is needed. Crucially the doctors are fighting not just for themselves, but also…
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…
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