Tag: workers

State Security raid CTUWS Helwan office

Posted on By 3arabawy

As I’m writing now, Security forces are inside the Center for Trade Union and Workers’ Services (CTUWS) office in Helwan. The Center has come under siege of at least four Central Security Forces trucks, loaded with conscripts, battalions of plainclothes, and swarms of State Security police agents.

There’s a group of activists inside the Center, who refused the eviction order, but they were outnumbered of course by the police thugs, who are now confiscating the furniture and all the items inside the office.

I’ll update the posting, when I receive more details.

UPDATE: In a statement I received from the Nadim Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture about the assault, the activists said that:

It is worth noting that the police force showed no official document of closure and said they have “oral orders” to close the place.

Bani Sweif rescue medics stage sit-in

Posted on By 3arabawy

Al-Masry Al-Youm reports:

Around 100 rescue medics staged a sit-in yesterday in the Upper Egyptian town of Bani Sweif, inside the Medical Rescue Center in Ghamrawy neighborhood, demanding their bonuses, unpaid for 10 months.

The medics also demanded the govt fulfill its promises to provide the badly-needed maintanence for their ambulances.

Intl solidarity with CTUWS

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The International Trade Union Confederation has issued a statement in solidarity with the Center for Trade Union and Workers’ Services:

Cases of repression by the Egyptian Government against the Center for Trade Union and Worker Services (CTUWS), an independent civil society organization committed to defending trade union and other workers’ rights in Egypt, have occurred recently in Egypt. The ITUC is concerned in particular about the decision to shut down the CTUWS branch in Naj Hamadi, in Southern Egypt. CTUWS staffs have also been intimidated in the Mahalla City branch office.
An official from the Social Solidarity Regional Office, who was under instruction to file a report on this subject with his ministry, investigated the CTUWS work and the nature of its activities while the the CTUWS Branch of Naj Hamadi was shut down by Administrative Decision issued on Thursday 29 March 2007 by General Al Sherbeeny Hasheesh, Chairman of the City of Naj Hamadi.
In a letter sent to the authorities, the ITUC urge Hosni Mubarak, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, to issue instructions to the relevant governmental bodies to rescind the restrictions and other measures imposed on the CTUWS.