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The Workers’ Solidarity Committee, Workers for Change, and the Workers’ Coordination Committee issued a joint statement denouncing the crackdown on Fatma Ramadan and activist trade unionists:

No to the witch-hunt against trade unionists

The undersigned organizations denounce the new wave of violations by the Egyptian state against labor organizers and trade unionists, and totally reject the move by government-backed trade unionists to freeze the membership of Fatma Ramadan Abul Ma’ati, a trade unionist at the Giza Labor Directorate, after she started collecting signatures from the civil servants in the governorate on a petition demanding the employees’ rights. Fatma had started the campaign after the government-backed trade unionists refused to present those demands to the officials so as “not to cause troubles.” She had also been barred from running for elections at the “Services Society for the Labor Ministry’s Civil Servants in Giza” for “security reasons,” as she was told.
Such assaults on trade unionists are strongly rejected by the undersigned, who also condemn the sacking of Aisha Abdel Aziz Abu Samada of el-Hennawi Tobacco Co, Ashraf Abdel Wanis of Fayoum Sugar Co, Said Shehata of Bolivara, ten workers from Trust, and eight others from Anvet.
Such witch-hunt campaign launched by the state to intimidate the labor leaders will not be successful in suppressing this promising social movement which will only be content when all stolen rights from the workers are returned..

The Workers’ Solidarity Committee
Workers for Change
The Workers’ Coordination Committee