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The present and future challenges facing Egypt’s labor movement
The Center for Socialist Studies is organizing a lecture, Tuesday May 22, at 6pm, on: Present and Future Challenges facing Egypt’s Labor Movement.
Speakers will include strike leaders from Cairo, Daqahliya, Mahalla, Beheira, and the 10th of Ramadan.
Members of Parliament will also take part, including: Saber Abul Fotouh of the Muslim Brotherhood, Saad Abboud of the Karama Party, and independent parliamentarian Gamal Zahran.
The Center is located 7 Murad Street Giza.
Govt attack on labor activists condemned
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.