MENA Solidarity Network is delighted to announce that the National Union of Teachers passed the motion below at its 2012 annual conference. The motion calls for the union to affiliate to MENA Solidarity Network and support our campaigns in solidarity with workers in Egypt and across the Middle East, as well as affirming existing policies…
A message from Cairo bus workers to colleagues in Unite on the buses in London who are discussing strike action over their bonuses. A recent strike by 45,000 bus workers in the Public Transport Authority in Cairo won large increases in a lump sum on retirement, and promises by the government to look into workers’…
Solidarity greetings from National Union of Teachers activists for the Egyptian teachers’ protest on 31 March (English below) إلى الأخوة والأخوات من نقابات المعلمين المصرية تحيات طيبة من بريطانيا نحن أعضاء في للجنة التنفيذية للنقابة العامة لمعلمي بريطانيا ونرسل أطيب تمنياتنا لكم لنجاح إعتصامكم في 31 مارس. من الواضح أن مطالبكم بزيادة الميزانية التعليمية هي…
يرسل المعلمين المضربين في لندن تحيات التضامن إلى عمال هيئة النقل العام في القاهرة. يضرب 70 الف مدرس وأستاذ الجامعة عن العمل اليوم إحتجاجاً على هجوم الحكومة البريطاينة ضد نظام المعاش. يقول نيك جرانت من نقابة المعلمين في بريطانيا “تسرق الحكومة أموالنا بعد المعاش ومن مرتباتنا اليوم . إضرابنا اليوم معركة في نضال مستمر من…
A PDF version of the new MENA bulletin on Bahrain can be downloaded here: Bahrain Bulletin March2012 The bulletin features the latest news on the repression of trade unionists following the uprising last year, and shows how the UK government is continuing to sell arms to the Bahraini government. It also reveals how a member…
MENA Solidarity Network will publish an 8 page briefing on the role of women workers in the Egyptian revolution to mark International Women’s Day this year. Featuring interviews with activists from the teachers’ unions, health service, local government and media, it shows a hidden side of the Egyptian revolution. [Update: 13 March: read the briefing…
Statement by the Women’s Committee of the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions on the question of the right of women to participate in the Constitutional Drafting Committee. 6 March 2012 An expanded meeting of the Women’s Committee of the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions (EFITU), which represents hundreds of thousands of women workers,…
MPs and trade union leaders expressed their deep concern today at a recent series of attacks on independent trade unionists and activists in Egypt. Over the past few weeks there have been a number of high profile cases where independent trade unionists and their supporters have faced physical attacks and legal harassment because of their…
The leaders of the Independent Public Transport Authority Workers Union which represents tens of thousands of bus workers in Cairo were ambushed and seriously injured in an incident at the Public Transport Authority Headquarters in Nasr City, Cairo on 29 February. Adel al-Shazly, the independent union president, Mohammed Abd-al-Sattar, union treasurer and Tareq Mohammed al-Sayyid,…
Hundreds of Bahraini workers protested outside the Ministry of Labour in Manama on 1 March, demanding their unconditional reinstatement. Around 2000 workers were sacked from their jobs in relation to the mass pro-democracy protests that began in February of last year. Some have been reinstated, but many of those have been forced to accept worse…
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