On the second May Day since the fall of Mubarak hundreds of activists from the independent unions and the Left took to the streets in Cairo and other cities across Egypt. Local demonstrations took place in Alexandria, Al-Mansoura, Zagazig, Suez among other cities. The statement below explains what they are demanding: ‘May is the month…
Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions Statement 1 – 2012 The bloody events in Port Sa’id The Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions has followed the terrible massacre which took place in the stadium at Port Sa’id and which left its victims among the innocent young people who came to watch a football match and…
The Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions has called for workers to join a protest on 23 January, as the newly-elected Egyptian parliament opens. A demonstration will start from the Federation offices off the nearby Qasr al-Aini street at 12 noon on 23 Jan and march to the parliament buildings. In a call for the…
Leaflet by EFITU being distributed in Tahrir Square today, 2 December No to al-Ganzoury’s cabinet appointments … No to ‘yellow’ trade unions In the context of the Military Council’s continued counter-revolutionary campaign, and in particular its insistence that Al-Ganzoury must form a government, despite the demand by the revolutionaries of Tahrir Square for a national…
Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions 5 September 2011 Over the coming few days hundreds of thousands of workers will exercise their right to strike and organise sit-ins, in defiance of all attempts to intimidate them and prevent them from exercising these rights, such as the law criminalising strikes and protests. The 22,000 textile workers…
MENA Solidarity Network 