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Phone workers protest salary shortfalls
Egypt
January 17, 2010
Phone workers protest salary shortfalls
Employees of the Maasara phone company south of Cairo staged a demonstration Sunday in which they blocked traffic on the…
Staff protests at Maasara Telephone Company
Egypt
January 6, 2010
Staff protests at Maasara Telephone Company
Workers at Maasara Telephone Company (MTC) protested yesterday their "indefinite" position and the "obscurity" surrounding the company's future, since operation…
Govt report: Top stories of 2009
Egypt
December 22, 2009
Govt report: Top stories of 2009
Workers strikes, death sentences, murders, new ministries, and Farouk Hosni. These were just a few of the top stories of…
Mahalla textile workers mull strike action
Egypt
December 9, 2009
Mahalla textile workers mull strike action
After weeks of preparation for a strike at the Misr Spinning and Weaving Company in the Cairo industrial district of…
The struggles of Lebanon’s migrant maids
World
December 9, 2009
The struggles of Lebanon’s migrant maids
Beirut--On 21 October this year, 26-six year-old Ethiopian migrant worker Zeditu Kebede Matente was found dead hanging from an olive…
An endangered breed of trade unionists
Egypt
December 5, 2009
An endangered breed of trade unionists
The number of women working in Egypt's trade union offices has always been negligible. Two prominent examples of contemporary female…
Steelworkers protest salary shortfall
Egypt
November 18, 2009
Steelworkers protest salary shortfall
Some 300 employees of the Kouta Steel Factory in 10th of Ramadan City northeast of Cairo recently staged a sit-in…
Fayoumi: A working class hero
Egypt
November 17, 2009
Fayoumi: A working class hero
On the morning of January 30 in 2007, two buses arrived from Mahalla to Cairo's Shoubra district, parking a block…
Tax collectors strike again
Egypt
November 14, 2009