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Helwan workers in solidarity with Palestine

Posted on 15/01/200910/01/2021 By 3arabawy

I received the following message from Mostafa Nayed, one of the leading Helwan steel mills workers:

Workers from the Egyptian Iron and Steel Company in Helwan addressed a note to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Company asking to donate part of their pay to the people of Gaza. The donation is to mark workers’ support of the Palestinian people’s struggle against the Zionist enemy. Accordingly, the Company union addressed a note to the CEO asking to deduct a day from the workers’ pay to be donated to the Palestinian people. The company CEO agreed to deduct one day pay from the fixed January wage of all workers at the Egyptian Iron and Steel Company in Helwan.
It is also worth noting that workers at the Egyptian Iron and Steel Company in Helwan have donated one day from their fixed wage during the month of October 2000 in support of the second Palestinian Intifada. The donations were delivered to various Palestinian aid institutions. They have also stood against the visit of the President of Israel’s to the Iron and Steel Company in 1980.
We call upon and invite all workers in Egypt to donate to the Palestinian people resisting occupation in Gaza. We also call on the Egyptian people to support the people of Palestine by giving donations and boycotting Israeli goods, which facilitate the buying of arms used in the killing of the elderly, women and children of Gaza and the appalling house demolitions.

Egypt’s Tax Collectors: Our working conditions are very, very bad

Posted on 14/01/200903/01/2021 By 3arabawy

Here’s an audio slideshow of Abdel Qader Nada, one of the Free Union leaders, explaining the conditions that led Real Estate Tax Collectors to strike in 2007, and later establish Egypt’s first independent trade union in 51 years.

Norwegian train drivers strike for Gaza

Posted on 12/01/200904/03/2021 By 3arabawy

This is FANTASTIC:

On Thursday 8 January all trains in the whole of Norway, and all trams and subways in Oslo, stood still for two minutes in protest against the Israeli invasion. The union issued the following information for passengers:
“Because of the situation in the Gaza Strip, the Locomotive Drivers Union in Norway has decided to demonstrate our solidarity with the Palestinian people. This will be organized by adding two more minutes of stoppage at the station. The same action applies to all passenger trains in Norway simultaneously. We demand the immediate withdrawal of all Israeli troops from the Palestinian territory. Thank you for your understanding”.

Can we get strike action in the Greek ports to stop this?