Independent unions

Suez prosecutor summoned Ain Sokhna Port workers, including unionists, for interrogation on Thursday regarding Dubai Ports World accusations that they…

In a historic development, two independent workers’ groups and several political parties joined forces on Monday to establish the National…

Egypt’s first labor union for domestic maids was established early this month and already claims a membership of some 300…

Four protesting workers at Cairo Governorate's Public Transport Authority started an open-ended hunger strike on Thursday in solidarity with other…

In late August, 40-year-old Arafa Kamel set himself on fire outside the presidential palace in Heliopolis after a disagreement with…

A new draft law introduced in Parliament threatens to dissolve the independent trade unions that have sprung up in various…

For the first time in Egypt's history, the last four months have seen tens of thousands of peasants and farmers…

The large and ongoing wave of labor and professional protests sweeping Egypt, prior to and since the 11 February ouster…

In 1993, Ashraf el-Hefny got his first job as a mathematics teacher at a public school in the coastal city…

Egyptian political activists often joke that their country has only five organized groups: the state’s civil and military bureaucracy, Sufi…