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Non-teaching staff protest for 50% salary increase

3arabawy - Thu, 2008-07-24 01:19 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Sarah Carr reports… Non-teaching staff within the Ministry of Education protested Monday on the steps of the Journalists’ Syndicate against the ministry’s decision to deny them a 50 percent pay increase. Holding up banners reading “We demand a decent wage and equality” and “A minimum wage is the right of all,” members of the committee for the [...]

Duweiqa residents wait in vain for ministry’s ‘gift’ housing for the poor

3arabawy - Tue, 2008-07-22 08:46 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Michaela Singer reports… In 2003, the Housing Ministry, under the auspices of the First Lady, launched a campaign to provide housing for some of the poorest Cairo residents. Five years later and white apartment blocks, Suzanne Mubarak’s ‘gift’ to the poor, pepper the landscape. But it is the slum housing, thickly crammed up the mountains of Manshiat [...]

Labor Updates

3arabawy - Mon, 2008-07-14 04:11 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
For the latest updates on the Alexandrian textile strike and protests by civil servants, keep an eye on Tadamon…

Doctors continue to demand salary increases

3arabawy - Mon, 2008-07-14 03:46 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
From the Daily News Egypt… Members of the Doctors’ Syndicate along with the Doctors Without Rights movement organized a protest in front of the syndicate Sunday, demanding an increase in doctors’ salaries. Protestors led by Essam El-Erian, a leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood group, threatened that doctors will go on strike if their demands were not [...]

Industrial Action Reports تقرير المرصد النقابي والعمالي المصري عن الاحتجاجات العمالية بشهر إبريل

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-07-02 03:49 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
The Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch has issued its report on the industrial action in April… Click on the poster below to download it…

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