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Building the Union موظفو الضرائب العقارية يواصلون نضالهم من أجل بناء نقابتهم المستقلة

3arabawy - Sun, 2008-08-31 03:55 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Members of the Higher Committee for the Real Estate Tax Collectors’ Strike convened in Cairo on Saturday, to carry on their fight to build what will be Egypt’s first independent labor union in half a century… The meeting included over 20 northern and southern provincial delegates, many of whom were from the central figures in the [...]

“We have to build our new union structures on the ground to be solid”

3arabawy - Fri, 2008-08-22 00:33 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Gamal Oweida, Daqahliya Tax Collector… We have to build our new union structures on the ground, to be solid. They (govt) will fight us hard. The (state-backed General) Federation (of Trade Unions) will not like any new independent union entities in the country… Are there others thinking of (building) independent unions? Yes, in Mahalla and other [...]

“Strikes are the only means to get our rights”

3arabawy - Thu, 2008-08-21 22:24 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Salah Abdel Salam, Daqahliya Tax Collector… All union presidents work for State Security. And all State Security (officers) serve only the regime… Egypt has turned from a welfare state to a savage capitalist state… Strikes are the only means to get our rights, as we saw in the Real Estate (Tax Collectors’ strike), Mahalla, Mansoura-España and [...]

Ad-Dustour الدستور

3arabawy - Mon, 2008-08-11 20:30 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
The frontpage of the liberal daily Ad-Dustour carries news on the solidarity protest held in London against the Mahalla 49 trial…

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