The Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch issued its report for the third week of June.
Tag: workers
AFL-CIO Cairo dispatches
Ray Abernathy of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) paid a visit to Cairo, from where he sent two dispatches to the AFL-CIO Weblog about the Egyptian working class.
The first is about the struggle of the women workers at the Mansoura-España Garments Company. And the second is on child labor in the so-called “Carpet Schools”.
Statement from Kafr el-Dawar Textile Workers for Change
I received a statement from Kafr el-Dawar Textile Workers for Change denouncing the witch-hunt against labor activists in Ghazl el-Mahalla, Ghazl Shebeen el-Kom and Arab Polvara Spinning and Weaving. The statement called for unity among the textile workers in the above-mentioned factories to resist the crackdown.
One other thing about the statement (which I really liked) was the fact that it was mostly written in Egyptian slang. This tells a lot about who wrote it, and who the target audience is. In other words it is written by a worker, not some “intellectual,” to fellow workers.