Around 100 independent trade unionists today held a protest in front of the headquarters of the state-backed Egyptian Federation of Trade Unions, denouncing its corrupt president Hussein Megawer, an NDP businessman close to the Mubarak’s clique. The protesters tried to enter the lobby of the building peacefully, only to be met with glass bottles, rocks, sticks and fire extinguishers from the EFTU thugs.
The military police arrived in the scene following half an hour of the ongoing clashes, and took away one of the EFTU thugs.
I have been following the revolution on Aljazeera Live) since Jan 25th here in US (on the internet) but I really appreciate the work you have done to convey what is happening in the labor movement in Egypt. There is little reporting on this. Many of us are also interested in what relationship (if any) is being forged between the Jan25th organizers and groups and workers protests.