Just came back from the Press Syndicate. I managed to steal a couple of hours away from the office to go and witness this great event. AND YES THEY DID IT! THEY DID IT!!! THEY DID IT!!! EGYPT’S TAX COLLECTORS HAVE ANNOUNCED THE FIRST INDEPENDENT TRADE UNION IN THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY IN HALF A CENTURY!! MABROUK! MABROUK! MABROUK!
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Egypt’s first independent trade union to be declared today
Today the dream comes true. Egypt’s Real Estate Tax Collectors are declaring this afternoon the country’s first independent trade union in half a century, after more than 27,000 civil servants endorsed the call for the free union.
Join the celebrations, 4pm, Press Syndicate.
Italy: GENERAL STRIKE!
First Greece and now Italy!
Thousands of workers, students, pensioners and the unemployed marched in heavy rain through cities across Italy on Friday to protest the government’s handling of the economic crisis.
A daylong general strike by Italy’s largest union curtailed services at hospitals and schools, shut down banks and post offices, while the demonstrations snarled traffic in Rome, Milan and other cities.
With Europe slipping into recession, anger over its economic woes has been bubbling over into protests and unrest across the continent.
Thursday’s strike was called a month ago by the CGIL union to put pressure on the conservative government of Premier Silvio Berlusconi.
In Rome, protesters waved unions flags and held up banners reading “united against layoffs” and “more jobs, more wages, more pensions, more rights.”
The government said the strike by the left-leaning CGIL was politically motivated and would further damage the economy, which has contracted for two consecutive quarters.