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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.
Arwa E

الوفد - يوم عاصف للإضرابات في المحافظات - 0 views

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    Egypt Workers Strikes Sit-in Protests عمال إضرابات اعتصامات مظاهرات Health Hospital Education CivilServants Garments Textile "عمالة مؤقتة" "مستشفى الإسماعيلية العام" "مركز القلب" "مصر للغزل والنسيج بالمحلة" فيلوستي "بيراميدز للملابس" الإسماعيلية المحلة الغربية القليوبية "الوادي الجديد" مكافآت Security Corruption تطهير حوافز "الحد الأدنى للأجور"
حسام الحملاوي

Daily News Egypt - Workers take to the streets: the strikes of 2007 - 0 views

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    In 2007 Egypt witnessed an unprecedented level of labor unrest as workers from textile factories to public transport to tax collectors went on strike, mainly over low wages and poor working conditions.
حسام الحملاوي

Egypt and beyond: The Shebeen el-Kom drama continues - 0 views

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    "In any case, it is clear that the strike at Shebeen el-Kom will have huge implications, since it raises doubts around the economic polices of the state, threatening further privatization schemes in the textile industry in particular. Whatever the outcome, the experience of Shebeen el-Kom is likely to further strengthen resistance to privatization among workers in other state owned factories"
حسام الحملاوي

انضمام عمال شركة النيل للغزل والنسيج إلى المعتصمين أمام القصر الجمهورى - التحرير - 0 views

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    Textile workers joining the presidential palace sit-in
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