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Ain Shams University employees stage protests

Posted on By 3arabawy

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.

Updates on the Real Estate Tax Collectors

Posted on By 3arabawy

The Finance Minister met yesterday with the leaders of the Real Estate Tax Collectors’ strike. I’m gonna post details of the agreement later, but the important thing to know is that the strikers finalized the details of their new pay scheme, which will be identical to those received by their colleagues at the Finance Ministry (with the current salaries level, the Real Estate Tax Collectors’ will be getting a deserved 400% incentives to raise their ultra-low standards of living). Moreover, charges against the strike leaders were dropped and punitive decrees were revoked.

Real Estate Tax Collectors' Strike إضراب موظفي الضرائب العقارية

Mabrouk!