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Hundreds of telephone manufacturing workers stage sit in south of Cairo

Posted on 23/10/200714/01/2021 By 3arabawy

Around 520 workers are on a sit-in since Monday evening at the Telephones Equipments Company (located in Ma’assara, south of Cairo), protesting the delay in their quarter-annual bonuses (which equal 90 work days).
The company’s labor force amounts to 1400 workers. The above mentioned 520 have been working in the company before 2001, the year it was privatized. The rest of the labor force (hired after privatization) are on temporary arrangements.

According to the message I received below (in Arabic) there are attempts by the temporary workers, who were already involved in previous industrial actions to demand job contracts, to join the ongoing protest and unite the ranks.

أعلن 520 عامل في شركة المعدات التليفونية بالمعصرة جنوب القاهرة الاعتصام بالشركة بعد ساعات العمل منذ يوم أمس الاثنين احتجاجا على عدم صرف الحافز ربع السنوي وقيمته 90 يوم
الشركة تضم 1400 عامل منهم 520 قدامى أي من مرحلة ما قبل خصخصة الشركة في 2001
والباقي يعملون بعقود مؤقتة الاعتصام مستمر والعمال المؤقتين يحاولون الانضمام إليه لتوحيد عمال الشركة
يذكر أن العمال المؤقتين بالشركة كانوا قد قاموا بسلسلة من الاحتجاجات طوال العام الماضي من أجل تثبيتهم

Labor Updates

Posted on 23/10/200705/02/2021 By 3arabawy

Check out Al-Masry Al-Youm’s coverage of the Tax officers strike here.

The paper is also reporting about a sit-in involving 800 garments workers in Alexandria, over unpaid bonuses. More details here.

55,000 Tax officers on strike; 3,000 demonstrating in Nasr City

Posted on 21/10/200729/03/2015 By 3arabawy

Around 3,000 tax officers are now assembling in front of HQ of the Finance Ministry (Imtidad Ramses St., which links Abbassiya with Nasr City). Elsewhere work stopped at virtually all Real Estate Tax offices, with around 55,000 tax officers taking part in the strike calling for improving their work conditions and their inclusion to the Finance Ministry.

The demonstrators in Nasr City have come from Cairo, Giza, Fayoum, Menoufiya, Bani swief, Minya, Daqahliya, Beheira, in buses, and are chanting against Finance Minister Youssef Boutross Ghali, and Ismail Abdel Rasoul, the head of the Real Estate Tax Administration.

More interestingly, according to a journalist who’s present at the protest, the tax officers are also chanting:

مش حنخاف.. مش حنخاف.. مش لاقيين العيش الحاف
We won’t be afraid.. We won’t be afraid.. We can’t find bread
هما مين وإحنا مين؟ هما بياكلوا حمام وفراخ وإحنا الفول دوخنا وداخ
Who are them, and who are we? They eat pigeons and chickens, while we get headaches from beans

The second chant is a popular line from one of Ahmad Fouad Negm’s poems, and both were chanted in last month’s victorious Ghazl el-Mahalla strike, which was widely covered by the local independent and opposition press. The domino effect is at work.

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