The dominoes keep rolling and falling.
The Grain Mills workers demonstrated last week, demanding equal treatment to that received by the Mahalla textile workers.
The Tax Collectors were cited as an inspiration for bank workers slamming their incompetent state-backed union officials.
The Education Ministry’s civil servants are moving nationally, forming new structures of mobilization parallel to the state-backed General Union. The latter, coming under strong pressure is moving against the government, but in a very very very regulated way that diffuses the militancy of what amounts to more than half a million civil servants. But just like what the tax collectors did in 2007, the Education civil servants’ grassroots leaders are pushing for an occupation in Hussein Hegazi St., due to start this Sunday.
The above are just few examples of how the domino effect works. Small victories snowball into mass strikes by blue and white collar workers, spilling from one sector to the other.
Thank you Mahalla.