Posts Tagged ‘syndicates-نقابات’

Solidarity needed with Kamal Abu Eita فلنتضامن مع كمال أبو عيطة

Please circulate…

Strikers أبناء العقارية يدافعون عن نقابتهم المستقلة

Real Estate Tax Collectors demonstrating Tuesday against the state-backed General Federation of Trade Unions, Hussein Hegazi Street, Downtown Cairo…

Creative Unions

An interesting website I found via David…

Engineers mobilize to liberate their syndicate المهندسون يتحركون لرفع الحراسة

The engineers are mobilizing to lift the govt siege on their syndicate, which had effectively led to shutting it down and freezing its activities from 1995…

Doctors to demonstrate today وقفة إحتجاجية للأطباء اليوم

Doctors to stage protests today and tomorrow in front of the parliament demanding pay raises…

Tuesday: Doctors Without Rights to protest ministry’s deception

Sarah Carr reports for the Daily News Egypt…

Rights group Doctors Without Rights (DWR) are planning to protest what they describe as the Health Ministry’s “deception.”
The group is staging a protest outside the Doctors’ Syndicate a day before Doctors’ Day on March 18, where Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and Minister of Health Hatem Al-Gabaly will be honored during the syndicate’s celebrations.
In the statement announcing the protest, DWR denounce “the honoring of those responsible for doctors’ suffering” and call for an end to “the deception of doctors with make-believe incentive payments.”
Earlier this week independent daily Al-Dostour reported that during a meeting with Doctors’ Syndicate head Hamdy El-Sayyed, Nazif announced that incentive payments due to be received by specialists and consultants in June will not be paid because of “insufficient funds as a result of the global economic crisis.”
Nazif is reported to have said that the funds necessary to grant the incentive payments will not be available for another two years.

BookMarx February 25th

These are my links for February 24th through February 25th:

• Real EstateTax Collectors – Receveurs d’impôts fonciers – a set on Flickr – Photos of the Free Union leaders, taken by Marie Duboc
• Tora Cement Workers Strike – إضــراب عمال أسمـنت طرة – a set on Flickr – Photos of the December 2006 strike, taken by Amr Abdallah
• Daily News Egypt – Tora Cement workers win pay victory after protest – Workers at the Tora Cement plant have reached an agreement regarding one of their demands concerning pay and conditions after staging a protest Monday.
• Jaiku | Security preventing me from talking to workers in tora cement. – Microblogging labor protests
• Jaiku | Spoke to workers after compromise and group of workers came over. Negotiations and protest continuing – Microblogging labor protests
• Tora Cement workers win pay victory after protest – My blog posting
• انتصار عمال أسمنت طرة « تضامن – انتزع عمال أسمنت طرة اليوم نصرا جديدا بنجاح اعتصامهم ورضوخ إدارة الشركة الايطالية لمطلبهم بصرف حقهم في رصيد الأجازات عن السنوات الثلاث الماضية محسوبا على الأجر الشامل وليس الأساسي.
• UAL PSC – The wave of pro-Gaza student occupations in the UK continues..

Tora Cement workers win pay victory after protest

The Tora Cement workers’ sit-in ended in victory, Sarah Carr reports…

Workers at the Tora Cement plant have reached an agreement regarding one of their demands concerning pay and conditions after staging a protest Monday.
Some 200 workers had assembled in the factory on Monday morning.
Shabaan Ezzat, a trade union member, told Daily News Egypt that the Tora Cement company — owned by the Italcementi group since 2005 — had failed to renew an agreement organizing employment relations.
“There was an agreement in force which ended on Dec. 31, 2008. A new agreement should be put in place,” Ezzat said.
“The agreement organizes relations between them [company management] and us: it describes our rights and their obligations. It should have been renewed on Jan. 1, 2009 but they have postponed this until June,” Ezzat continued.
Workers were also demanding that their paid leave entitlement be calculated on the basis of total salaries.
“Over the course of the past six months new demands emerged. We want holiday entitlements to be based on our total salary including bonus payments. But they say no — holiday entitlements are calculated without bonus payments,” Ezzat explained.
According to Ezzat, company management agreed to this demand on Monday afternoon.
Management has not however shifted its position regarding the agreement governing labor relations — it will not be renewed earlier than June.
Workers also say that the Tora Cement company employs around 400 non-permanent workers on contract.
Union member Ali El-Shafei alleged that this policy is adopted so that the company “does not have to pay for their benefits.”
The Tora Cement company could not be reached for comment.
In December 2006 over 1,000 Tora Cement workers launched a successful strike after company management refused to pay them a bonus.
Several labor leaders launched a hunger strike during the action, including Ezzat.
“We are used to company management not responding to our demands, despite the fact that we point out to them what the law says and don’t ask for anything other than what we are legally entitled to,” Ezzat said.
“We’ve been in discussions with them for a month and a half now and nothing has changed…Management only responds to workers’ demands when we take a stance like this, when we stage protests. Otherwise they ignore us completely,” he continued.

BookMarx February 18th

These are my links for February 17th through February 18th:

• Jaiku | أمين شرطة بلطجي كان عاوز بطاقتي ورخصتي على كوبري المنيب وسالني مين اللي معاك دي ومد إيده وحاول ياخد مفتاح العربية قفلت القزاز على دراعه – Fuck the pigs..
• Support South African and Australian Dockers’ Boycott of Israeli Cargo – U.S. Trade Unionists Support South African and Australian Dockers' Boycott of Israeli Cargo
• Jobs terminated as California goes bankrupt – Americas, World – The Independent – Arnold Schwarzenegger has sent redundancy notices to 20,000 government employees and shut down California’s last remaining public works projects yesterday, as state politicians failed to pass a budget that will prevent his administration from running out of money
• Al Jazeera English – Americas – More US troops set for Afghanistan – Barack Obama, the US president, has approved the deployment of an extra 17,000 troops for Afghanistan, the White House has confirmed.
• اليوم السابع | الصيادلة يعلقون إضرابهم بعد مفاوضات مع غالى – قررت نقابة الصيادلة فى اجتماعها تعليق إضرابهم لحين انتهاء مفاوضات النقابة مع وزير المالية غدا، الأربعاء، والوصول إلى صيغة للإقرار الضريبى الجديد للسنوات القادمة، بما يضمن إقرار معاملات ضريبية منتظمة
• اليوم السابع | الشلل يصيب المحافظات فى اليوم الخامس لإضراب سائقى المقطورات – دخل إضراب سائقى وأصحاب المقطورات، فى مختلف محافظات مصر يومه الخامس، ليهدد المضربون ببيع سياراتهم خردة والهجرة خارج مصر
• اليوم السابع | المحامون يبدأون اعتصاما مفتوحا بسبب قانون زيادة الرسوم – قرر عدد من المحامين بدء اعتصام مفتوح غدا بمقر النقابة العامة، وذلك فى محاولة للضغط على الحكومة للتراجع عن تمرير المشروع. وحذر المحامون الحكومة من تمرير مشروع القانون الذى اعتبروا أنه لا يؤثر سلبيا على أدائهم وعملهم فقط بل على مستوى التقاضى وحقوق المواطنين فى اللجوء للقضاء.
• الأخبار - عربي - تفاقم إضرابات الصيادلة المصريين وسائقي نقل الشاحنات – تفاقمت أزمة إضراب قرابة 45 ألف صيدلية في أعقاب بدء الصيادلة الاثنين إضرابا عن العمل تسبب في أزمة دواء بمصر، في حين اعتقلت الشرطة 11 من سائقي المقطورات المضربين أثناء مواجهات بين الطرفين
• اليوم السابع | اعتصام 350 موظفا بإدارة طوخ التعليمية – اعتصام 350 من موظف وإدارى وعامل بإدارة حى طوخ بسبب حرمانهم من الحصول على الكادر، وطالبوا بضرورة تسكينهم على درجات مالية جديدة توفر لهم الحصول على الكادر مثل باقى زملائهم
• جريدة البديل – أمن الدولة في سيناء يمنع أئمة المساجد في العريش من جمع التبرعات ويطالبهم بالإبلاغ عن المتشددين – إسرائيل تقصف الشريط الحدودي وتمنع دخول 58 طن مساعدات لغزة و22 طبيباً فرنسياً وبريطانياً ينتظرون موافقة مصر علي العبور
• جريدة البديل – رئيس حزب مصر 2000 لمحافظ الإسكندرية:يا ريس لو طلبت منا نرمي نفسنا في البحر حنرمي – آحااااااااا
• الأخبار - دولي - اعتصام للمصورين بلندن ضد قانون يمنع تصوير الشرطة – وينص القانون الجديد على أن التقاط صور لعناصر الشرطة يمكن أن يعتبر جريمة جنائية بموجب قانون مكافحة الإرهاب.
  وتمنع المادة 76 نشر معلومات عن أفراد القوات المسلحة وأجهزة الاستخبارات والشرطة من المحتمل أن تكون مفيدة لشخص يرتكب أو يعد لعمل إرهابي, وقد تصل عقوبة جريمة نشر تلك الصور والمعلومات إلى السجن لمدة عشر سنوات
• Facebook: All Your Stuff Is Ours, Even If You Quit – In short, all of the content you’ve ever uploaded on Facebook can be used, modified or even sublicensed by Facebook in every possible way – even if you quit the service.
• جريدة البديل – 35 عاملاً في شركة جنوب الوادي للبترول يضربون عن الطعام للمطالبة بتعيينهم – أعلن 35 عاملاً في شركة جنوب الوادي القابضة للبترول بأسوان أمس، إضرابهم عن الطعام داخل مستشفي أسوان التعليمي احتجاجاً علي رفض الشركة تثبيتهم رغم صدور قرار من سامح فهمي، وزير البترول، بتعيينهم.
• جريدة البديل – إحالة ضابطين ومندوب شرطة في الإسكندرية إلي الجنايات بتهمة اختلاس «3 طرب حشيش» من أحراز المخدرات – أمرت نيابة غرب الكلية بالإسكندرية بإحالة ضابطين ومندوب شرطة إلي الجنايات بتهمة الاستيلاء علي الأحراز الخاصة بالمخدرات
• Egyptian pharmacists strike against tax law – AP report on the Pharmacists strike

Tax Collectors Updates: 30,000 join free union

Via Per…

30.000 real estate tax collectors have signed the founding statement of the Free Union, el-Badeel reports. More than 300 collective resignation letters have been sent to the state-backed union. Representatives of the union also extended their support to the workers in Mahalla, firmly rejecting accusations of the state-controlled union that attempts to establish a free union there is illegal and funded by organizations with a “foreign agenda”. Leading unionist Kamal abu Eita says that such accusations can only come from “someone who doesn’t know anything about the international agreements that Egypt signed”, adding that it is in fact the state-controlled union that is operating outside the law.

Continuous updates on the fight for free unions in Egypt could be found here…