Textile workers strikes and sit-ins continue in Suez and Daqahliya provinces, while 1400 garbage collectors went on strike yesterday in Giza, demanding their unpaid salaries. The garbage collectors assembled in front of their company, carrying banners with cartoons, depicting their company management as “Monster with Fangs,” and slogans like: “Cleaning Companies Launch Terrorist Campaigns (Against Workers)… Rescue Us from the Companies’ Oppression.”
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Amnesty International denounce closure of CTUWS
AI expressed its solidarity with Egyptian labor activists who are coming under attack from Mubarak’s dictatorial regime:
Amnesty International condemned the Egyptian government’s closure of a leading workers advice centre yesterday, on the eve of the country’s Labour Day, and said it undermined President Hosni Mubarak’s claims in a speech today that his government is committed to protecting workers’ rights. As a result of the forced closure of the Centre for Trade Union and Workers’ Services (CTUWS) office in Helwan, Cairo, the organization said Egyptian workers will be impeded from accessing information and advice about labour rights.