I was invited last night to the wedding party of Mervat’s daughter, Omniya Ibrahim and Waleed Sami, in Imbaba’s Madinet el-’Oummal (Workers’ City)…
Alf Mabrouk…
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The Free Union leaders were having their weekly meeting near where I work in Downtown. The anniversary of the Hussein Hegazi St occupation is coming up soon, and the civil servants are planning celebrations across the Real Estate Tax Authorities offices and directorates all over the country on 3 December. Decorations will be put up and sweets to be distributed.
Theses are some photos of the Free Union activists from the provinces of Cairo, Giza, Nile Delta, Upper Egypt, N Sinai and the Suez Canal cities…
A group of textile workers from Tanta’s Cotton Co are staging a sit-in now at the General Federation of Trade Unions’ HQ in el-Galaa St, demanding the revoking of sacking degrees against them.
I’m receiving news that the postal service workers will stage a sit-in today at their Postal Service HQ in Ataba, demanding job security… No more details are available yet…
The crackdown on Ghazl el-Mahalla activists continues… The govt-appointed CEO Fouad Hassan ordered today the transfer of five more women workers away from their departments…
As I’m writing, a Mahalla delegation has arrived at the General Federation of Trade Unions HQ in el-Galaa St, to protest the crackdown and is trying to see Hussein Megawer the Federation’s boss (and the head of Mubarak’s National Democratic Party parliamentary bloc). The Federation officials say Megawer is not present, and the delegation members are currently showered with phone calls from state-backed union officials begging them to leave the building.
UPDATE: The Ghazl el-Mahalla workers are staging a sit-in at the Federation’s hall, chanting against privatization, corruption. We need photographers, bloggers and journalists to go there urgently. Here is also a report from Afaq…
The number of Real Estate Tax Collectors, who have endorsed the call for establishing Egypt’s first independent trade union in half a century, has exceeded 25,000…
I received the following message from Jim Barbour, the Executive Council Member of the Fire Brigade Union…
We in Northern Ireland were very disturbed, and indeed angered, at news of this most recent round of attacks on workers in Egypt.
It is a tribute to workers in Egypt and especially those at Mahalla, that they continue to show such great courage, in the face of despicable attacks from management and ongoing state collusion.
We were especially concerned that Amal and Wedad were treated in such a cowardly manner. We hope that they are now safe and well.
We now make a point of raising the plight of Egyptian comrades, at every opportunity that arises.
Be assured of our continued support.
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Yours in solidarity.
Jim Barbour
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