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حسام الحملاوي

Egypt and beyond: Homophobic Unions? - 0 views

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Egypt Workers StateBackedUnions Homophobia HIV

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  • This strange piece of news was published in Al-Shourouq yesterday: The Egyptian Trade Union Federation refused a proposal by the ILO at its 98th session in Geneva to "give the right to homosexuals to enter the organizations" as well as the "migration of workers with HIV/AIDS between member states" which could "threaten the health" of other workers. These practices is against Islam, a representative of the state-controlled federation explained. The article also states that representatives of Arab and Muslim states suspended their participation in the conference because they regarded the calls of ILO to protect human rights "regardless of sexual orientation" as a "call to spread homosexuality in the world and give it official recognition."
  • Besides being a completely ignorant standpoint to start with, it is not clear exactly what proposals the article referes to. One of the items on the agenda of the conference was "to adopt an international labour standard on HIV/AIDS in order to increase the attention devoted to the subject at the national and international level, to promote united action among the key actors on HIV/AIDS and to increase the impact of the ILO code of practice on HIV/AIDS and the world of work, adopted in 2001." And just before the conference, the ILO released a report on discrimination and stigmatization of workers living with HIV and Aids, calling for the end of such practices.
  • It seems like the state-controlled unions are desperate to find any way to score cheap points - even by playing on and reinforcing prejudice, ignorance and homophobia - since they are unable and/or unwilling to take the fight for workers rights, even as they are challenged by growing calls for free unions in Egypt. Pathetic.
Tony Sullivan

Behind the Brotherhood's losses in historic Doctors' Syndicate elections - Politics - E... - 1 views

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egypt doctors syndicate

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  • The Indepenence List also won total, or near total, control of provincial syndicate boards in Ismailiya, Suez and Aswan – governorates where the Brotherhood could claim widespread support for its brand of politics.
  • in the last years of Mubarak, a younger generation of doctors started to organise in rank and file militant groups such as Doctors Without Rights (DWR) outside of the Syndicate’s internal body, against both Mubarak’s regime and the Brotherhood’s conservative union policies. In the aftermath of the January 25 revolution, these radical doctors, many of whom actually took part in the uprising against the dictator and were emboldened by their success in ousting him, embarked on organising their co-workers for campaigns to take workplace actions and strikes to improve their conditions.
  • This contrast between the new attitude of emboldened members and a static leadership was illustrated during the unprecedented national doctors’ strike last May. When doctors in public hospitals took industrial action against the government to demand minimum salaries and increased spending on healthcare from 4 per cent to 15 per cent of the budget, both the president of the Syndicate, Hamdy El-Sayed, and the Brotherhood-controlled national syndicate board denounced the strikers. Dr Mona Mina, a member of DWR who won a seat on the new national syndicate board in last Friday’s election and was one of the organisers of that historic strike, told Ahram Online that doctors found it hard to win that battle because of the Syndicate’s hostile position
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  • Although the Brotherhood backed Abdel Dayem for the position of Syndicate president, the Islamist group will not be able to count on him as an erstwhile ally. In fact, a large number of those who supported Independence and Tahrir candidates also voted for Khairy Abdel Dayem to head the Syndicate. Indeed, Dr Mona Mina herself supported Abdel Dayem for syndicate president. A closer look at Abdel Dayem’s campaign literature and interviews to media actually showed that he pushed economic demands and healthcare reform proposals almost identical to those raised by the Independence and Tahrir lists.
  • Dr Mona Mina, now one of six Independence members of the national syndicate board
  • In the national syndicate board elections, the Independence List won six out of 24 seats, and broke the Brotherhood’s monopoly over power there
حسام الحملاوي

نداء إلى عمال مصر الأحرار « شباب 6 ابريل - 0 views

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Egypt Workers April Strike Facebook 6 strikes

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  • حسام الحملاوي on 24 Mar 09
     
    The Facebook activists are calling on the "Free Workers of Egypt" to strike on 6 April.. Well, good luck to you.. It's not gonna happen.. You have to have activists on the ground to organize this, not in the cyberspace..
حسام الحملاوي

Egypt and beyond: Free union refuse to join state-controlled federation - 0 views

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FreeUnion Unions StateBackedUnions Egypt Workers taxcollectors Activism Hussein Megawer

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  • حسام الحملاوي on 17 Mar 09
     
    el-Badeel reports: The head of the state-controlled trade union federation (EFTU), Hussein Megawer, has announced that he would agree to let the free union of the real estate tax collectors join the federation. Union leaders refused this offer, saying they will not enter the official union structure since it is controlled by the ruling party NDP, stressing that they have the right to organize independently according to the Egyptian constitution and international treaties signed by Egypt.
حسام الحملاوي

Egypt and beyond: Oil workers protest layoffs - 0 views

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Egypt Workers عمال Oil Petrol Aisha Abdel Hadi Demonstrations شركة الحفر المصرية EDC

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  • 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
حسام الحملاوي

Egypt and beyond: Shebeen el-Kom strikers denounce privatization - 0 views

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Egypt Workers Strikes عمال إضرابات Textile مصر شبين للغزل والنسيج Privatization India Capitalism شبين المنوفية

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  • حسام الحملاوي on 19 Mar 09
     
    For the workers, the transfer of the factory to a private investor has been a catastrophe. The stories they told sounded very similar to that of other recently privatized companies like Telemisr or Tanta Linen Co. Since 2007, the new management has refused to pay bonuses worth a total of 10 million pounds, while allegedly paying 6 million pounds cash to about 200 workers that agreed to early retirement. Since it was privatized, the losses of the company has more than tripled - even before the global financial crisis started. Workers accuse the new owner of deliberately sabotaging the factory to eliminate competition, and of buying dysfunctional old machines from his other factories in Pakistan and Indonesia at trumped-up prices as a way to transfer resources abroad
حسام الحملاوي

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

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Egypt Railways Workers StateBackedUnions Syndicates Government GovernmentPropaganda

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  • 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.
  • حسام الحملاوي on 02 Mar 09
     
    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.
حسام الحملاوي

اليوم السابع | أبو عيطة: نقابة "مجاور" باطلة - 0 views

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Egypt StateBackedUnions Megawer FreeUnion taxcollectors

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  • حسام الحملاوي on 12 Feb 10
     
    Megawer striking back with the 24th General Union, devoted solely to the tax collectors, so as to withdraw the carpet from beneath Abu Eita and the Free Union. The new state-backed union include at least two of the former strike leaders that Megawer managed to coopt: Makram Labib and Ezzat Shedid. The two had always demonstrated the most compromising attitude throughout the Hussein Hegazi sit-in and later.
Tony Sullivan

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

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egypt Workers

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  • 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.
Tony Sullivan

International Socialism: The Egyptian workers' movement and the 25 January Revolution - 1 views

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egypt workers

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  • The mass strikes of September 2011 paralysed the government and the military council and opened up the road to the crisis of November. The independent unions and strike committees which led these strikes are part of what is now probably the biggest social movement in Egypt (with the possible exception of the Muslim Brotherhood), and certainly the biggest organised movement with real roots in the everyday struggles of the poor
  • Will organised workers move into the leadership of the mass revolutionary movement? This article argues that two conditions for this happening have already been met: the workers’ movement has begun to gain enough mastery over its constituent parts to be able to use its social power in battle with the state, while the demands that are now being raised by this movement cannot be satisfied within the limits of neoliberal capitalism in the context of intensifying economic crisis at a local and global level.
  • While the numbers of participants were probably lower than February, the significance of September’s strikes lay in the qualitative shift towards coordinated national and sector-wide strikes.
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  • these were mass strikes articulating generalised social demands with a degree of common purpose which in itself constituted a formidable political challenge to the ruling military council.
حسام الحملاوي

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

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taxcollectors Egypt Workers Activism Economy Strikes FreeUnion Imported

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  • حسام الحملاوي on 26 Feb 09
     
    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

Railway workers threaten to go on hunger strike, demand rights - 0 views

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Egypt Workers Activism Economy Corruption Imported

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  • حسام الحملاوي on 26 Feb 09
     
    Nearly 200 railway safety technicians are threatening to start a hunger strike to express their growing dissatisfaction with wages and working conditions.
حسام الحملاوي

Daily News Egypt - Telemasr factory employees continue to protest forced early retirement - 0 views

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Activism Egypt humanrights workers Imported

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  • حسام الحملاوي on 26 Feb 09
     
    Around 50 of Telemasr factory's 500 employees continued their five-day "peaceful protest" against the management's decision to force them to go on early retirement.
حسام الحملاوي

Egypt and beyond: Lazy workers and neo-colonial managers - 0 views

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Egypt Workers Racism Turkey history colonialism

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  • 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.
حسام الحملاوي

‫إنشاء موقع إلكتروني لتلقي شكاوى المواطنين إلكترونياً‬‎ - YouTube - 0 views

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Egypt Workers مظاهرات اعتصامات عمال Protests الرئاسة مرسي MuslimBrothers internet

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    Morsi to launch a website to receive complaints, following labor protests in front of the presidential palace.
Tamer Mowafy

Egyptian Chronicles: Strike At The AUC New Campus - 0 views

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egypt workers strike AUC university wages

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  • Tamer Mowafy on 28 Oct 10
     
    "the matter went from bad to worse when the AUC reduced their salary from LE 650 to LE 450 , the excuse was that the administration dedicated a pension ,a meal and also a transportation means."
حسام الحملاوي

Egypt and beyond: The minister in Shebeen el-Kom - 0 views

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Egypt Aisha Labor Ministries Workers privatization Megawer StateBackedUnions india capitalism

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  • حسام الحملاوي on 25 Mar 09
     
    Aisha abd el-Hady reportedly vowed that no privatized companies would return to the state (as many of the workers demanded during the strike), and said that the government is commited to the sucess of the indian investor
حسام الحملاوي

Egypt's Tax Collectors موظفو الضرائب العقارية on Vimeo - 0 views

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Egypt taxcollectors videos Multimedia civilservants strikes activism FreeUnion cairo giza

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  • حسام الحملاوي on 11 Mar 09
     
    Videos to be used in a mutimedia project Isabel and I are currently working on to document the struggle for free unions in Egypt
حسام الحملاوي

Egypt and beyond: Railway technicians in Assiut stage sit-in - 0 views

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Workers Railways Egypt Sit-In humanrights Demonstrations Technicians

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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.
  • 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.
  • حسام الحملاوي on 02 Mar 09
     
    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.
حسام الحملاوي

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

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privatization workers Egypt economy Strikes Shebeen Textile Mubarak

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  • حسام الحملاوي on 16 Mar 09
     
    "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"
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