Joel Beinin and I co-authored a new article for the Middle East Report Online about the current longest and strongest wave of labor protests since the end of World War II in Egypt.
Tag: strikes
Industrial action updates
In two new reports, the Egyptian Workers and Trade Union Watch documented 56 labor protests, strikes, threats of strikes, sit-ins during the month of April, and another 15 during the first week of May.
Labor updates
The food processing workers sit-in enters its third day in Suez, despite security intimidation, while in Cairo the head of the regime-controlled General Union of Transportation Workers Wagih Mustafa Amin accused “Kefaya elements” of standing behind the latest public transportation strike.