El-Badeel reports.
Category: Blog
Egypt is ablaze with conspiracy theories
Make sure you check out Jack’s new article in the Guardian’s Comment is Free.
I’m very pleased there was a mention of the tax collectors’ fight. The collectors’ strike last year and their current struggle to build Egypt’s first independent labor union in half a century are under-reported in the international press despite the story’s importance. I hope this will change soon.
And in all cases, actions speak louder than words, and I assure you the actions coming ahead will pierce the deaf ears and force everyone to listen.
Cement workers stage protests south of Cairo
Around 1000 cement workers are currently staging two sit-ins south of Cairo in Helwan and Tebbin, demanding the 30% raise decreed by Mubarak last May, the “schools grant” (paid to workers in the fall to help them with the fees of their children schooling) and a compensation for the overtime work shifts they do.
No more details are available at the moment.