Just came back from visiting the public transportation strikers in Nasr City’s El-Mostaqbal Garage, where the total labor force (700 bus drivers, collectors, mechanics) are striking, joined by thousands of their colleagues across Greater Cairo. Initial reports: 14 Garages in Cairo and Giza are striking, but 2 in Giza are not (Athar el-Nabbi and Fom el-Khaleeg).
The workers in Nasr City have started collecting signatures (see pic above) demanding the impeachment of the state-backed General Union of Transportation Workers’ local officials, threatening to establish independent union.
There are already rumors circulating the govt will submit to the strikers’ demands today.
