Tag: unions

Doctors warn of pending strike action

Posted on 25/02/200810/02/2021 By 3arabawy

In a protest outside the People’s Assembly Sunday doctors said they will launch strike action on March 15 if their demands for improved pay were not met.
This is the second protest in a fortnight to be organized by the Doctors’ Syndicate.
Ahmad Imam, a member of the Syndicate, told Daily News Egypt that the Syndicate will meet Health Ministry representatives next month.
“The assistant health minister will meet with the Syndicate on March 4. If our demands are not met we will launch a two-hour symbolic strike on the March 15,” Imam explained.
The Doctors’ Syndicate is calling for a LE 1,000 minimum wage for doctors.
Young doctors at the beginning of their career are paid an average of LE 230.
Head of the Doctors’ Syndicate Hamdy El-Sayyed told reporters at the protest that poor pay threatens to drive doctors out of the profession.
“A doctor who works in Heliopolis and travels every day to work in 15th of May City, earns LE 180 a month. How can LE 180 be enough for a young doctor who has spent eight years studying? How can he continue his studies and start a family on this wage?” El-Sayyed asked.

So everyone is taking strike action: workers, civil servants, and now the professionals. Hosni, you and your pigs are fucked!

Lawyers Syndicate protest corruption, bread queues

Posted on 13/02/200831/12/2020 By 3arabawy

From the Daily News Egypt:

The Lawyers’ Syndicate’s freedoms committee announced yesterday that it was launching legal action in the case of a man who died while queuing for state-subsidized bread, as part of its efforts in combating corruption.
The committee organized a protest Wednesday against corruption and political detention outside the Syndicate’s headquarters in Cairo. Holding up placards reading “No to the political detention of lawyers” and “No to a government of businessmen,” protesters chanted “The people want freedom” and “No to corruption, no to political detention” during the two-hour protest.

Greece on STRIKE!

Posted on 13/02/200813/01/2021 By 3arabawy

I love the Greeks!

Thousands of demonstrators have marched through Athens and Thessaloniki to protest against government social security reforms as a general strike shut down schools, hospitals and all public services.
Port workers and air traffic controllers joined the protest on Wednesday, the second 24-hour general strike in the last two months.
The move forced authorities to cancel all flights to and from Greek airports, and all regular ferry routes to the country’s islands.
Buses, trains and the Athens metro were running for only a few hours during the day.
Journalists went on strike, cancelling all news bulletins and current affairs programmes for the day.
Dentists, lawyers, construction workers and civil servants also left their jobs.
Greece’s two main labor unions called the strike to protest against the conservative government’s efforts to reform Greece’s debt-ridden and fractured pension system.