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An evening with strike leaders
I attended yesterday a meeting of strike leaders from a number of industrial and service sectors and URETA activists, part of the ongoing efforts to push for independent labor unions and learn from the Tax Collectors‘ pioneering experience. I thought of sharing some miscellaneous notes from the meeting: – A worker speaking in a high-pitched …
Canal Ropes Company Workers’ Strike
I took the pic above Tuesday in Port Said, as the Canal Ropes Company strikers were about to break their Ramadan fast at sunset. The worker in the ground reaching with his hand to take the dates is a Coptic worker, named Labib Guergiss (Also seen in the pic below). Virtually all workers I meet …
Suez Canal updates
Muhammad Anwar, the president of the Union Committee at the Canal Company for Portrs and Large Projects, said that Navy Marshall Ahmad Fadel, the head of the Suez Canal Company, will meet with representatives of workers from Ismailia and Port Said on Sunday afternoon to discuss the implementation of the verbal promises the strikers received …