The Suez Food Industries strike ended in partial victory.
Year: 2008
Solidarity needed with Socialist trade unionist
In a new attack on labor activists, the government-backed members of the Union Committee for the Giza Labor Directorate civil servants have summoned Socialist trade unionist Fatma Ramadan for interrogation today, threatening to freeze her union membership, part of a witch-hunt against dissident trade unionists.
The government-backed members have officially requested from the higher union body, the General Union of Administrative Services, to freeze Fatma’s union membership for: “inciting the employees,” “contacting the media,” “adopting illegal means of communications” (as Fatma led a campaign of petitions, directed to the Labor Minister herself, over the work conditions of the civil servants), and “distributing leaflets.”
UPDATE: The Workers’ Solidarity Committee issued a statement denouncing the crackdown.
Ain Shams University employees stage protests
Ain Shams University employees received the university president, Ahmad Zaki Badr, the son of the notorious former Interior Minister General Zaki Badr, by protests on the campus of the Faculty of Agriculture in Shobra. The employees were demanding job security, as they have been either on temporary contracts or without contracts at all for years (some have been working for 12 years without being instated, I was told).
The protests, according to my source, prevented the University President from leaving campus till the afternoon. One woman protester passed out and was transferred to the hospital.
UPDATE: More information in this Al-Masry Al-Youm report.