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Justice Experts: Settlement refused, strike continues

Posted on 05/08/200901/02/2021 By 3arabawy

Via Al-Masry Al-Youm English Edition:

Justice experts from around the country came to Cairo yesterday to find out about the status of the second round of negotiations with the Ministry of Justice. The ministry released a statement denouncing the crisis and saying that all experts have resumed work.
“Everything that concerns incentives, the way cases are delivered from courts and assignments of experts to courts in addition to the experts’ law project was agreed upon during the last negotiations,” the statement said.
The statement also said that the experts came to Cairo to avoid protesting. Experts denied this statement, reiterating that their strike will continue until their demands are met. Experts also denied being informed with what came in the statement, assuring that their strike will continue until their demands are fulfilled by a ministerial statement.
“We weren’t even notified with what happened in the last negotiations,” a striking expert said.
The experts continued their call for President Hosni Mubarak to settle the conflict so they can return home before the holy month of Ramadan. They are also demanding a set of protocols to end the strike to be agreed upon with the ministry.
The experts are the Justice Ministry civil servants assigned with technical consultancies during judicial investigations and trials. One of their primary demands is the cancellation of a decision that gives courts the right to send the experts only a portion of each case’s entire file. The experts say their working conditions are much harder. Instead of receiving the whole case file at once, they receive only a few documents from each case file, meaning they are forced to go and collect the rest of the case information from a number of sources. The ensuing waste of time, effort and money, they say, will be immense.
The other demand is a change in job regulations that were established at the time of King Farouk by royal decree number 96 in1952. These regulations set the ground rules for salaries, transportation remuneration and other rules for the experts to work by some 55 years later.

Strikes continue around the country

Posted on 04/08/200901/03/2021 By 3arabawy

Via Al-Masry Al-Youm:

Around 250 workers of the Nile Cotton Ginning Company at Mahalla, Zefta and Kafr al-Zayat in Gharbeia governorate have started a sit-in, accusing Chairman of the Board Abdel Ma’aboud el-Sayfi of not paying them a 7% annual bonus since the 2004. Workers sent faxes to both the Ministers of Manpower and Immigration and of Investment, demanding their unpaid salaries, bonuses and the overtime they say the company committed to them through signed agreements.
The strike has also spread to the company’s branch at Etay el-Baroud, in the Beheira governorate, who threatened to strike after three days of unpaid work in July. They also claim they did not receive a seven per cent yearly bonus, as well as a 10 per cent social bonus.
The workers assert their strike will continue until the dispute is resolved, and hope the ministries will respond as they have in other situations under pressure.
The Ministry of Manpower and Immigration, for example, has paid out of its emergency aid fund a minimum of LE 200 for each of the 1,500 workers of Abul Sebae in Mahalla, whose salaries have been delayed for two or three months.
In related news in Daqahliya, a number of temporary employees in the faculty of engineering of Mansoura University continued a strike for a second day, objecting to the dean’s refusal to make their salaries equal to those of permanent university employees. Muhammad el-Shabrawy, the faculty dean, promised the strikers during a meeting with them yesterday that he would increase their October salaries.
Not all strikes have persisted, however. In Suez, the workers of a fertilizer factory have ended a strike after three weeks, under police pressure. They did not receive any compensation from the Ministry of Manpower and Immigration.

Crackdown on Tanta Flax strikers

Posted on 04/08/200918/03/2015 By 3arabawy

Police have cracked down today on the Tanta Flax and Oil Company strikers, banning OTV journalists from entering the factory compound, escorting the journalists by force away to Tanta.
The workers were angered, broke the company gates, and have cut the highway. Eight Central Security Forces are besieging the workers at the moment, in the presence of dozens of senior ranking police officers.