Na’amat Gaber, one on the founders of the Independent Union of Workers in the Maintenance and Technical Works Co. at Cairo Airport talks about why she is a trade unionist, and what the revolution means to her. Workers at Cairo International Airport and the Civil Aviation Ministry have organised a courageous campaign against Ahmad Shafiq,…
Egypt’s ruling military council has launched a co-ordinated assault against the democratic gains made as a result of the mass protests and strikes since the beginning of the revolution in January 2011. A decision of the Higher Constitutional Court ruled that Ahmad Shafiq, candidate of the old regime and Mubarak’s last prime minister could stand…
Hala Kamal is a member of 9 March Movement, a network of academics which campaigns for freedom of expression on the university campus. She addressed UCU Congress 2011 and here gives an update on recent struggles (interview on 6 June, by members of the MENA Solidarity delegation to Egypt). “Today there are continual attempts at…
Activists from MENA Solidarity Network visited Cairo and Alexandria 3-8 June to meet activists from the independent unions and hear about the latest developments in the revolution. Sheila McGregor and Sally Kincaid from the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and Anne Alexander and Nadine el-Enany from the University and Colleges Union (UCU) met colleagues from…
MENA Solidarity Network is delighted to welcome the PCS as the third national union to affiliate to the network. Delegates at the PCS Annual Conference in Brighton voted overwhelmingly on 24 May to support a motion calling on the union to back the struggles of workers in the Middle East for social justice and democracy,…
Sue Bond, Vice President of PCS union in the UK sends a message to colleagues in the independent civil service unions in Egypt, responding to greetings from Nahla Mohammed Abd-al-Azim and Nagat Ragab Mohammed from the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions Women’s Committee. سو باند نائبة رئيس النقابة العامة للعاملين بالخدمات العامة والتجارية في…
Two leading activists in the Egyptian Property Tax Collectors’ Union recorded these messages to PCS members in the UK. My name is Nagat Ragab Mohammed from the Property Tax Collectors Union. I am deputy president of the union in Giza and a member of the national executive. I am also deputy president of the Women’s…
From the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions website. Original Arabic here 14 May 2012 For the third day in a row 135 temporary admin workers at Manshiet al-Bakri Hospital have been on strike and taking part in a sit-in at the hospital. The strike began on Sunday 13 May because of corruption in the…
Belfast – NIPSA Union members بالفاست في إرلاندا الشمالية – أعضاء نقابة للعاملين بالخدمات العامة فى 10 مايو اضرب عن العمل الاف من العاملين بالقطاع العام و بالحكومة البريطانية للمطالبة بوقف رفع سن التقاعد و عدم الاستقطاع من اموال المعاشات. ارسل العمال المضربين اثناء اضرابهم رسالات تضامن مع المعتقليين فى مصر كما ارسلوا ايضا(هم و…
Dozens of leading activists in the British public sector trade unions on strike on May 10 against cuts in their pensions signed a statement in solidarity with detainees arrested during the recent crackdown on protest by the military in Egypt. Signatories include the General Secretary of the PCS union representing civil servants, Mark Serwotka, and…
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