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Transport workers have no right to impeach their managers, says minister

Posted on By 3arabawy

The new minister of transportation, Atef Abdel Hameed, responded negatively to calls by transport workers in several sectors to impeach their senior managers, saying it was none of the workers’ business.

The mass strikes since the first week of February, which effectively led to Mubarak’s fall, saw workers putting forward a wide array of demands related to their work conditions and right to unionize. But more or less the common denominator in those strikes has been the impeachment of corrupt managers and directors, all remnants of the Mubarak’s regime. The public transport workers in specific played a central role in the bringing the capital to halt, adding more pressure on Mubarak with a set of clear political demands for regime change.

Minister Abdel Hameed has to listen to the workers.

#Jan25 Public transportation workers call for overthrowing Mubarak

Posted on By 3arabawy

My sources has just confirmed this now.

The Cairo Public Transportation workers, who started a strike today in five Garages: Nasr Station, Fateh Station, Ter’a Station, Amiriya Station, Mezzalat Station, Sawwah Station, have issued a statement with a list of demands, calling for overthrowing Mubarak. No public buses will roam Cairo tomorrow, except those buses that will bring the drivers to the central station in Nasr City’s el-Gabal el-Ahmar, where the strikers have announced they will declare an independent union.

The strikers’ statement has also called for abolishing the emergency law, removing NDP from the state institutions, dissolving the parliament, drafting new constitution, forming a national unity govt and setting a national minimum wage of LE1200 and prosecuting corrupt officials…

This comes as strikes have spread literally everywhere. It’s happening people… It’s happening. The working class has entered the arena with full force today. Mubarak’s regime’s fate will be sealed off SOON!