1. Ask one of the delegation of British trade unionists who went to Egyptrecently to come to your union branch/campaign. To book a speaker please email menasolidarity@gmail.com Members of the RMT, PCS, NUJ, UCU, NUT and CWU went on the delegation and met the activists and leaders of the independent unions who are at the…
Egyptian doctors began an indefinite strike on 17 May. The doctors stuck solidly for 24 hours on 10 May, and the authorities are already under pressure. Government ministers have hastily promised an increase in the health budget, although far, far less than is needed. Crucially the doctors are fighting not just for themselves, but also…
Three reports from members of the MENA Solidarity delegation which visited Egypt 28 April – 2 May. Anna Owens (PCS), Anne Alexander (UCU), and Unjum Mirza (RMT) talk about their experiences of meeting tax collectors, health workers and transport workers and hearing first hand about their inspiring struggles for social justice and real democracy. http://www.youtube.com/user/MENAsolidarity
Thursday 12 May, 7pm NUJ Head Office, Headland House, Gray’s Inn Road, London Come and hear first reports from the delegation of RMT, PCS, NUJ, UCU, NUT and CWU members who took part in a trade union solidarity delegation to Cairo on May Day. We met activists from independent unions on the railways, Cairo public…
Members of the independent Health Technicians’ Union which represents professional and technical workers in the health service such as radiographers and laboratory technicians organised a protest outside the Ministry of Health on 26 April. The union is leading a campaign for the Health Technology Institute to be upgraded to a College. Delegations of union members…
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…
Following the fall of Mubarak, Egyptian health workers led a wave of strikes and protests demanding the removal of corrupt managers associated with the old regime, better pay and conditions, and the right to organise independent unions. Manshiyet el-Bakri Hospital in Cairo has been at the forefront of these struggles. A strike at the beginning…
Egyptian schoolteachers were at the forefront of the struggle to build independent unions in the year before the 25 January revolution and have played a key role in organising strikes since the fall of Mubarak. The Independent Teachers’ Syndicate was founded in July 2010 with a membership of around 5000. The new union called for…
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…
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