An open forum will be held at the Journalists’ Syndicate on how to resist the government’s rigging of votes in the coming labor unions elections, Friday, 22 September, 6:30pm

Participants will include:
Judge Mahmoud Mekki
Abdel Aziz Shaaban, Member of Parliament, Tagamu Party
Saber Abul Fotouh, Member of Parliament, Muslim Brothers
Gamal Zahran, Independent Member of Parliament
Khaled Ali, lawyer with the Hisham Mubarak Law Center
Youssef Rashwan, Workers For Change activist
Kamal Khalil, Kefaya activist and director of the Center for Socialist Studies

تدعوكم لجنة المتابعة والاتصال بنقابة الصحفيين الى حضور
الندوة التى تعقدها يوم الجمعة المقبل 22-9-2006الساعة
السادسة والنصف بنقابة الصحفيين لبحث سبل مقاومة
التزوير الحكومى للانتخابات العمالية المقبلة. يشارك فى الندوة المستشار محمود مكى ، والسادة أعضاء
مجلس الشعب أ/ عبد العزيز شعبان (تجمع)،أ/ صابر أبو
الفتوح (إخوان) أ/جمال زهران (مستقل) إلى جانب أ/خالد
على /محامى العمال بمركز هشام مبارك للقانون من اللجنة
التنسيقية للدفاع عن الحقوق النقابية والعمالية،وأ/يوسف
رشوان من حركة عمال من أجل التغيير،وأ/كمال خليل من حركة
كفاية .


2 Responses to “Forum: Resisting vote rigging”  

  1. 1 issandr

    There’s been some talk over the years of setting up independent alternative trade unions. Did it ever amount to anything? What are the obstacles to setting up trade unions beyond state control beyond legal ones?

  2. 2 Hossam el-Hamalawy

    The obstacles are many, but the most important one is the fact that there is no single political group that has the enough grassroot support in the industrial centers, which could mobilize for it.
    There are breakthroughs for lefties in several places, and sure the movement is revived, but still it needs more efforts to link with the factories and have enough presence in the labor circles, so they could push for an alternative union body.




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