Striking postal workers in Egypt have received a message of support from their colleagues in France. The Union syndicale Solidaires (SUD) branch in the postal service, call centres and telecommunications sent the message after hearing of the arrest of postal workers’ leaders in Alexandria last week. What you can do: Read the full message of…
Leaders of the post workers strike in Alexandria were seized from their homes in dawn raids on Tuesday 25 March. Ismail Gabr, Haitham Uthman, Ayman Hanafi, Hani Said and Hisham Abd-al-Hamid were arrested at 1am by the police. According to the labour lawyer Mohammed Ramadan, the five men were due to be brought before prosecutors…
Calls for civil disobedience and a general strike on 11 February are gaining momentum across Egypt in the wake of the massacre of football supporters in Port Said. The Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions and the Egyptian Democratic Labour Congress, which between them claim a membership of around 2 million workers in affiliated unions…
One year ago in Tunisia workers were playing a vital role in the protests sweeping the country against the Ben Ali regime. “The trade unions’ role is one of the most striking aspects of the December protests”, wrote the Tunisia expert Christopher Alexander in the magazine Foreign Policy. On the 7th January thousands of lawyers…
Postal workers at the Cairo office have decided to go on strike starting tuesday the 6th of september demanding higher wages, and the cleansing of their offices of all senior advisors and members of the NDP, the former fuling party; following weeks of strike action in provinces nationwide including: Menia, Qena, Ismailia, North Sinai, Alsharqiya,…
Post Offices in Sharkia, a province east of the delta, continue strike action on 28th August for the fourth day in a row. The strikes began with postal workers demanding equal benefits to what their counterparts receive at Telecom Egypt regarding a 200% bonus as well as demanding that their institution be purged of all…
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…
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