Argentinean teachers strike over police killing

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From Al-Jazeera:

Argentine teachers have held a one-day nationwide strike after a high school chemistry teacher was killed by police last week during a protest over pay in the southern province of Neuquen.
In Buenos Aires, the capital, workers at banks, hospitals, government offices, and public transportation joined the strike for an hour on Monday afternoon.
Police in the northern city of Salta fired tear gas at groups of protesters, local media said.
Carlos Fuentealba, a 41-year-old teacher, died on Thursday, a day after he was hit in the head by a tear gas cartridge when police broke up a teachers’ protest and road block in Neuquen.

Govt attack on labor activists condemned

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The Socialist Alliance, Leftist Union, and civil society organizations are holding a press conference, Tuesday 10 April, 12 noon, at the Hisham Mubarak Law Center, to brief reporters about the crackdown on the Center for Trade Union and Workers’ Services activists in Naga’a Hammadi, and the intimidation faced by labor activists in Mahalla.

The HMLC is located: 1 Souq el-Tawfiqiya St, Fifth Floor.

The Socialist Alliance and the Leftist Union (two umbrella organizations that coordinate between revolutionary and reformist leftist factions) have already come out with a statement in solidarity with the CTUWS.

And here is a Daily Star Egypt report on the government crackdown against Upper Egyptian labor activists:

A coalition of 37 civil society organizations has called on the governor of the Upper Egyptian province of Qena to re-open the offices of a workers rights organization which was closed by the city government of Nagaa Hammadi last week.
The local branch office of the Center for Trade Union and Workers Services (CTUWS) was closed on Thursday, March 29, after an order to shut down the group was issued by the Chairman of the City, General Al Sherbeeny Hasheesh.
A broad range of Egyptian civil society organizations have endorsed the call for solidarity with the CTUWS, including the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, the Hisham Mubarak Law Center and the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information.