The Independent Union for Public Transport Workers called off a strike that was planned for the 28th of August only hours before it was to begin. The decision came after Mona Mostafa, head of the Department for Public Transport, released a statement on the night of the strike confirming that all workers, drivers and conductors…
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…
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…
Hundreds of striking railworkers blockaded the tracks on 25 July at the main railway station in Cairo, paralysing the movement of trains. They are demanding improved bonuses and death-in-service benefits as well as the resignation of managers and officials from the corrupt pro-mubarak trade union. Monday’s strike and protest came after management failed to meet…
Protests and strikes by workers at Cairo airport over the last week forced the ruling military council in Egypt to appoint a civilian head of the airport for the first time in fifty years. A lightning strike by airport workers on 20 July, during which hundreds of strikers blocked the main road to Cairo, called…
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…
MENA Solidarity Network 