Tag: unions

Cairo U students continue their protests

Posted on By 3arabawy

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Cairo University students continue their protests against Hossam Kamel, the university president, and brother of Mubarak’s telecommunications minister Tarek Kamel. The students want complete purge of the administration from any corrupt regime figures, dissolution of the state-controlled student unions, lifting all restrictions on political activities, free education and affordable text books.

One quote I really like from the young female student who’s leading the chants above: “We will run the university. The university will not run us.”

A similar revolt is reported in virtually all state universities where classes were resumed.

#Jan25 15/2/2011 Violence erupts at union protest

Posted on By 3arabawy

Around 100 independent trade unionists, on 15 February, held a protest in front of the headquarters of the state-backed Egyptian Federation of Trade Unions, denouncing its corrupt president Hussein Megawer, an NDP businessman close to the Mubarak’s clique. The protesters tried to enter the lobby of the building peacefully, only to be met with glass bottles, rocks, sticks and fire extinguishers from the EFTU thugs.

The military police arrived in the scene following half an hour of the ongoing clashes, and took away one of the EFTU thugs.