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حسام الحملاوي

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

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    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: 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.
حسام الحملاوي

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

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    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.
حسام الحملاوي

اليوم السابع | نقيب عمال الغزل: "كله إلا عمال المحلة" - 0 views

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    The state-backed General Union of Textile Workers, Said el-Gohary, lashes out against those who call for free unions..
حسام الحملاوي

اليوم السابع | إنشاء صندوق زمالة للعاملين بالضرائب العقارية بالمحافظات - 0 views

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    The state-backed General Union of Bank and Insurance workers is trying to hit back at URETA, through adopting the project that the free union activists are working on, hoping to drag the carpet from beneath the latter's feet. Already the URETA activists had issued a statement denouncing those moves.
حسام الحملاوي

اليوم السابع | النقابة العامة للبناء تقرر إنشاء صندوق تأمينى للعاملين - 0 views

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    The state backed unions are mobilizing, lest they lose the ground for free unions
حسام الحملاوي

Egypt and beyond: Homophobic Unions? - 0 views

  • 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.
حسام الحملاوي

اتحاد العمال الرسمي: النقابات المستقلة «ورقية» وتزعزع الاستقرار - بوابة الشروق - 0 views

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    The state run unions continue their attacks against the independent unions.
حسام الحملاوي

Egypt and beyond: Articles on free union, Mahalla, and train drivers strike - 0 views

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    Per's articles in Swedish about the tax collectors' free union, the train drivers strike and the struggle in Mahalla
Per Bjorklund

النقابة المستقلة... كيف بنيناها؟ | مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية - مصر - 0 views

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    Kamal abu Eita tells the story of the free union of the real estate tax collectors.
حسام الحملاوي

Mahalla workers to form independent union at 3arabawy - 0 views

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جريدة البديل - عمال المحلة يبدأون في تأسيس نقابة مستقلة - 0 views

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    The Mahalla workers resume their efforts to establish a free union, in the wake of the Tax Collectors' victory..
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