Posts Tagged ‘helwan’

Shoura Council voters in Helwan accuse govt of fraud

Helwan Telephones Equipment workers bossnap their CEO عمال المعدات يحتجزون العضو المنتدب

Nyahahah.. The Helwan Telephones Equipment workers have bossnapped their management, again!

Helwan Telephones Equipment Manufacturing Co workers on STRIKE!

The Telephones Equipment Manufacturing Company workers in Helwan are on strike for the third day on the row, demanding their delayed salaries, unpaid Ramadan and Eid bonuses…

Helwan Telephones Equipment workers threaten to strike tomorrow عمال شركة المعدات التليفونية بحلوان يهددون بالإضراب

The Helwan Telephones Equipment Company workers are threatening to go on strike, tomorrow Monday, protesting reports that the investor will either sell the firm or liquidate it…

New Socialist Blog مدونة اشتراكية جديدة

Helwan U Resistance activist Abdel Halim launches a new blog…

Tuesday: Resistance Students call for education reforms طلاب مقاومة يدعون لوقفة احتجاجية الثلاثاء القادم

Helwan University’s Resistance Students are demonstrating this Tuesday, demanding education reforms…

Helwan, Mansoura students protest police, education fees

Another day of protests in the Egyptian universities, with Mansoura and Helwan coming under police siege from the early morning…

Police cracked down on Mansoura students, kidnapping an activist, by the name Motaz Adel, on his way out of the university following the protests. Another two students were picked up by the gestapo in Alexandria…

Update: Motaz and the two Alexandrian students have been released…

UPDATE: A report by Sarah Carr on yesterday’s Cairo U protest…

Students renewed their demands for free education and an end to the presence of Interior Ministry security forces on university campuses Saturday, during a demonstration at Cairo University.
“Security bodies ban any and all political, cultural and intellectual activity inside universities. They want to create a generation of young people incapable of saying anything except ‘yes’ to Mubarak Senior and Junior,” Mostafa Shawky, a member of the Haqqy (My Right) Socialist student movement said during the protest.
Cairo University student and Haqqy member Ashraf Omar said that the removal of Interior Ministry police from campuses is students’ main priority.
“We want to link student issues with wider issues in Egyptian society.
Students form part of a society and must take part in its political life. So our most pressing demand is the removal of Interior Ministry security forces from campuses so that we can increase student activity,” Omar said.
He linked the Egyptian government’s domestic policy with its position on regional issues.
“The regime which contains us by the ‘remote control’ of its security bodies is the same regime which is placing Palestine under siege,” Omar said.

Labor strikes in Armant, Helwan and Mahalla

The great victory achieved by the Mahalla Textile workers has opened the appetite of Egypt’s workers for more strikes… It’s the domino effect at its best…
For the second day on the row, more than 1000 Tora Cement workers are continuing their strike, after their Italian management that holds the majority shares refused to pay them the six month-bonus the workers are entitled to. The workers have closed down the factory gates, put barricades on every single exit or entry to the factory compound, threatened to set any cement trucks coming in or out on fire. The workers also have closed down the Factory Engineers’ residential flats by chaining their gates.

At the same time, the Helwan Cement workers have decided to end their strike, following threats of detention and torture from State Security agents yesterday.

Meanwhile, autoworkers at el-Nasr Company have ended their strike and factory occupation the day before yesterday, after the management promised to pay them part of their delayed bonuses in the beginning of January.

Also, more than 100 workers from the Nile Shipyard of the Suez Canal company, located in southern city of Armant, are on strike, to protest the delay in giving them their “job titles” part of the labor law regulations needed in establishing the workers’ rights in disputes with the management. At least nine workers have gone on a hungerstrike, and were transferred to the Armant Central Hospital.

Here’s a statement with more details, I received from the Workers’ Coordination Committee…

اضراب عن الطعام بحلوان
واضراب عن الطعام والعمل بهيئة قناة السويس
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لليوم السادس على التوالى يضرب عمال شركة القناة للترسانة النيلية عن العمل احتجاجا على عدم تحديد درجات وظيفية لهم من ناحية ،ولعدم اعتماد لائحة العاملين بالشركة من مكتب العمل من ناحية ثانية .
وشركة القناة للترسانة النيلية هى احدى شركات هيئة قناة السويس وتم تأسيسها عام 2003 ، وللشركة مكتب ادارى بالاسماعيلية وبه 14 موظف، أما موقع العمل فيقع بالمحاميد بحرى بمدينة أرمنت بمحافظة قنا وبه 116 عامل وفنى ،وتعمل فى اصلاح السفن النيلية السياحية
وتعود أسباب الاضراب الى مطالبة العمال بتحديد درجات وظيفية لهم مما دفع الشركة لإصدار قرار فى 23/5/2005 اوضحت فيه انها ستقوم بتحديد درجات العمال فى يناير 2006 ، الا أن الشركة امتنعت عن ذلك حتى الان ،كما أنها امتنعت عن اعتماد لائحة العمل بالقوى العاملة رغم موافقة مجلس الادارة عليها، وهو ما يهدد حقوق العمال فى مواجهة الشركة ،الامر الذى دفع العمال بموقع العمل بأرمنت للاضراب عن العمل منذ 18/12/2006 ،ولما تجاهلت الشركة مطالب العمال دخل كلا من أحمد كمال محمد ،راضى عجايبى فاخورى ،محمود أحمد ابراهيم ،أحمد عبد العزيز أحمد ،عبد الجواد عبد العظيم، قناوى محمد أبو المجد ،العزب سيد أحمد ،مصطفى بكرى جاد الرب ،محمد النوبى محمد فى اضراب عن الطعام منذ 21/12/2006 وهم الآن بمستشفى أرمنت المركزى.
وقد قامت الشركة بتهديد العمال من أجل فض الاضراب، وتم استدعاء خمسة من العمال وتهديدهم بالفصل.
ومن ناحية ثانية نجحت ضغوط الجهات الامنية فى فض اضراب اسمنت حلوان ،إلا أن عمال أسمنت طرة مازلوا مضربين عن العمل ودخل أعضاء اللجنة النقابية فى اضراب عن الطعام احتجاجا على المفاوضات وعلى ما يتعرضوا له من ضغوط.
واللجنة التنسيقية تؤكد على حق العمال فى الاضراب للمطالبة بحقوقهم ، وتساند عمال اسمنت طره والترسانة النيلية فى جميع مطالبهم ، وتندد بالضغوط التى يتعرض لها العمال ،وتناشد كل القوى الوطنية لمساندتهم ودعمهم .
اللجنة التنسيقية للحقوق والحريات النقابية والعمالية
22/12/2006

UPDATE: Here are photos of the Tora Cement factory strikers, by Amr Abdallah…

From 2006 Tora Cement Workers Strike – إضــراب عمال أسمـنت طرة