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Egypt and beyond: Egyptian National Railways: "The workers' demands took us by surprise" - 0 views

  • This is a blatant lie, since protests occured on several occasions before November, for example in Februari 2008 and December 2007. But more importantly it's also a sign of the ineffectiveness of the state-controlled union in giving a voice to the workers. If Samy can claim he didn't know of any demands, it's because the union officials refused to transmit the demands and grievances of the workers.
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    This is a blatant lie, since protests occurred on several occasions before November, for example in February 2008 and December 2007. But more importantly it's also a sign of the ineffectiveness of the state-controlled union in giving a voice to the workers. If Samy can claim he didn't know of any demands, it's because the union officials refused to transmit the demands and grievances of the workers.
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Egypt and beyond: Telemasr workers demonstrate - 0 views

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    El-badeel reports that 140 workers at the Telemasr branch in Ismailiyya and 200 at the main branch in Cairo demonstrated on Sunday against the decision to partially close the factory and leave 300 workers without work and only half the pay. Workers have p
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Sacked textile workers protest for reinstatement | Al-Masry Al-Youm - 0 views

  • At the height of its performance, Ahmoseto, in the Tenth of Ramadan City, employed nearly 4,000 workers. Well over a thousand of these workers quit the company when production ceased, while around 500 others succeeded in continuing production - using a unique system of workers’ self-management - at one of the company’s nine factories. This experiment in workers’ self-management is only the second of its kind in Egypt’s labor history. A light-bulb factory, also in the Tenth of Ramadan City, was self-managed by its workers from 2001-2005 when its owner, former MP Ramy Lakkah, fled the country.     
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Egypt and beyond: Oil workers protest layoffs - 0 views

  • the Egyptian Drilling Company, EDC (despite the name apparently 45% owned by a Danish company - the A.P Moller-Maersk Group)
  • As the workers were still gathering outside the gates, the minister - Aisha abdel Hadi - suddenly left the building in a car, which made some of them furious. "We came to talk to the minister and you smuggle her out in front of our eyes?" one man yelled to the security guards. Later, a ministry official (possible security) came out to talk to the workers, refusing to say his name. He told them that the situation was beyond the control of the government since this is a global crisis and "even in America 5 million workers has been laid off".
  • It's ironic how government officials will deny the impact of the global crisis on Egypt one day, while at the same time using it as an excuse to escape all responsibility to help workers who are losing their jobs because of it..
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  • These workers feel betrayed by the employer, the union, and the government
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Egypt and beyond: Railway workers and the state - 0 views

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    These are some notes I made during the seminar "Workers and the state, the experience of the railway workers" organized by Tadamon on Tuesday
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    Per reports on Tadamon's event about the Railway Workers...
Tony Sullivan

Egypt: enough empty promises|17Sep11|Socialist Worker - 0 views

  • On Thursday of last week the minister of labour was in marathon negotiations with textile workers’ leaders representing 22,000 workers at the giant mill in Mahalla al-Kubra. The minister bargained desperately—narrowly avoiding a strike that would have brought out most of the textile sector
  • the correction of the path of the revolution”. Five feeder marches set off from the city’s working class districts to the square after prayers.
  • At the same time, 40,000 teachers were gathering outside parliament. “Meet our demands or no school this year” read their banners
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  • The military council promised to implement existing laws against strikes and demonstrations, with live bullets—and revive Mubarak’s hated emergency laws. But the strike wave rolled on. Some 26,000 sugar refinery workers joined the battle. Hundreds of textile workers from the Indorama textile factory in Shibin al-Kom occupied the provincial governor’s office the same day.
  • Collective action from below has again knitted together the fight for national liberation with the struggle for social justice
  • The internal crisis generated by this clash is feeding a growing external crisis.
  • Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised to send the Turkish navy to protect future humanitarian convoys to Gaza and has expelled Israeli diplomats. The contrast between Erdogan’s stance and that of the Egyptian generals was not lost on the Egyptian masses
  • The last month has seen a qualitative shift towards co-ordinated national or sector-wide strikes in several key industries including the railways, post, education and textiles.
  • Many are winning serious concessions from the state without walking out, prompting new groups to raise demands.
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جريدة البديل - الأزمة العالمية.. تمزق صناعة الورق المصري «1» - 0 views

  • حجم العمالة المباشرة يصل الي 300 الف عامل في 130 مصنعا داخل مصر وهناك عمالة غير مباشرة مرتبطة بالمجال سواء في تجارة الدشت أو المجالات المرتبطة بتلك الصناعة ليصل العدد الإجمالي سواء مباشرة أو غير مباشرة إلي مليون
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    The paper-manufacturing industry in Egypt directly employs 300,000 workers in 130 factories. The total number of workers employed in related sectors that serves this industry amount to 1 million. The sectors is hit hard by the crisis now
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Egypt and beyond: Railway technicians in Assiut stage sit-in - 0 views

  • More protests among the railway workers: El-Badeel reports that 70 technicians at the station in Assiut held a sit-in on Saturday, demanding equality with their colleagues working within the administration after the latter had received a bonus that was twice as high. The sit-in ended quickly after the management had promised to realize the demands.
  • More protests among the railway workers: El-Badeel reports that 70 technicians at the station in Assiut held a sit-in on Saturday, demanding equality with their colleagues working within the administration after the latter had received a bonus that was twice as high. The sit-in ended quickly after the management had promised to realize the demands.
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    More protests among the railway workers: El-Badeel reports that 70 technicians at the station in Assiut held a sit-in on Saturday, demanding equality with their colleagues working within the administration after the latter had received a bonus that was twice as high. The sit-in ended quickly after the management had promised to realize the demands.
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دراسة حالة -المرصد: إضراب عمال غزل شبين للمطالبة بمكافأة أجر 228 يوم « تضامن - 0 views

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    More details on the Ghazl Shebeen workers strike, in a report by the Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch
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Daily News Egypt - Tora Cement workers win pay victory after protest - 1 views

  • Tora Cement workers win pay victory after protestBy Sarah Carr First Published: February 24, 2009HELWAN: Workers at the Tora Cement plant have reached an agreement regarding one of their demands concerning pay and conditions after staging a protest Monday.
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    Workers at the Tora Cement plant have reached an agreement regarding one of their demands concerning pay and conditions after staging a protest Monday.
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Fired workers demonstrate outside Workers' Union - 0 views

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    Jobless and penniless, eight men held a demonstration in front of the Workers' Union yesterday Jan. 9. The eight men, who have been jobless for three months, were sacked from the German-Egyptian company that produces pipe fittings and small jobbing castin
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Farfahinne: Lebanon: Egyptian workers protested in front of their embassy against their... - 0 views

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    This is fantastic! Egyptian migrant workers in Lebanon staged a demonstration in front of the Egyptian Embassy in Beirut denouncing their dismal working conditions...
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Egypt and beyond: Workers strike in solidarity with Palestine - 0 views

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    Workers at Al-Masriya Fertilizer in Suez went on a sudden strike on Saturday, protesting the export of fertilizers to Israel.
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Egypt and beyond: Crisis hits tourism sector - 0 views

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    The local labour office has received around 400 complaints about unpaid salaries and bonuses from workers at Red Sea tourist destinations, as the effect of the global crisis is setting in and many hotels start laying of workers. We'll see more of this, I'
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Egypt teachers, doctors and workers continue nationwide strikes - 0 views

  • “Workers use the same slogans as those of Tahrir … but referring to the mini-Mubaraks they have in their firms,” journalist and activist with the Revolutionary Socialists Hossam El-Hamalawy told DNE. "Those workers are not simply demanding extra wages like what the media is trying to propagate — they are fighting corruption and turning the economic struggle to a political one," he added.
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Petition on Tuition: Workers should be wailing - 0 views

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    Conditions of workers at the AUC
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Egypt and beyond: Lazy workers and neo-colonial managers - 0 views

  • To me it sounds a lot like the racist attitudes to the "natives" that were often expressed by foreign managers and colonial officials during the late 19th and early 20th century.
  • In other words, the railway workers' demands to receive a living wage was dismissed as an expression of an irrational oriental attitude to work. Personally, I think that if you pay your workers 150-300 Egyptian pounds per month (which won't bring them and their families above the poverty limit) you shouldn't be surprised if they will do anything to escape work or leave as soon as they find another opportunity.
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Egypt and beyond: EDC owners accused of "oppressing" Chinese workers - 0 views

  • Despite the reputation of Scandinavian countries as progressive, just and socially advanced, our capitalists are just like any others, it seems... especially when operating in "third world" countries like Egypt or China. I was just sent this link to an article about A.P. Moller-Maersk, the Danish company that owns 45% of the Egyptian Drilling Company (EDC), which was recently accused of laying off employees on fixed contracts while hiring new workers on temporary contracts. The report in Danish daily Politiken recounts accusations concerning a container factory in Dongguan in southern China, owned by Maersk, where workers are said to suffer from health hazards, corruption within the management, and humiliating work rules - including a ban on strikes (with no basis in Chinese law according to an expert interviewed in the article) imposed in June 2008 after a series of strikes and protests for better work conditions. A number of reports and statements in Danish and English are available at the Hong Kong-based Globalization Monitor.
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