Like 2008, this year is witnessing waves of strikes and
demonstrations by Egyptian workers in various sectors and organizations.
Students, pharmacists, lawyers, railway drivers, media people, and
even microbus drivers and street cleaners are all de
City Cab drivers stage sit-in protesting the delay in salaries
نظم أكثر من مائة من سائقى تاكسى العاصمة (شركة سيتى كاب) اعتصاما أمام مقر الشركة بالمعادى الجديدة صباح الجمعة بسبب عدم صرف رواتبهم حتى الآن إضافة إلى عدم انتظام الرواتب
Train drivers will meet with Minister of Manpower Aisha Abdel Hady and Transport Minister Mohamed Lotfy Mansour next month to discuss their grievances.
"The November-January season hasn't only witnessed a low turnout," said Arif, a Bedouin taxi driver, "it's dead and anyone who often visits Sharm will tell you that."
Lawyers strike suspended in victory, as Microbus drivers in Alexandria paralyze the city with their strike against inhuman treatment they receive on the hands of the Traffic Police
At one point during the discussion, one of the drivers identified a man present as a plain-clothes police agent and abruptly (but non-violently) deported him outside the rest-house, shouting: "Get out! And I never want to see a policeman here again!"