The Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch issued its report for the third week of June.
Year: 2007
AFL-CIO Cairo dispatches
Ray Abernathy of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) paid a visit to Cairo, from where he sent two dispatches to the AFL-CIO Weblog about the Egyptian working class.
The first is about the struggle of the women workers at the Mansoura-España Garments Company. And the second is on child labor in the so-called “Carpet Schools”.
29 Sinai Bedouins released
The protests scheduled by the Sinai Bedouins on 1 July have been postponed, as negotiations between the Sinai Bedouins on the one hand, and the Egyptian Mukhabarat and government officials on the other, continue.
In order to ease the tensions, the government has already started releasing those detained from the peninsula without charges. Twenty-nine have been released up till now, reports Al-Masry Al-Youm.