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Thursday 01 October 2009 State phone workers stage sit-in By Muhammad Azouz, Hisham Omar and Samah Abdel Ati

Some 1200 employees of the state-run Egyptian Telephone Company staged a sit-in recently in the Maasara region south of Cairo. Disgruntled workers complain that they have not received monthly salaries for September, Eid el-Fitr holiday bonuses or promised annual salary increases. Labor syndicate president Salah Heikal called on Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and Minister of Manpower Aisha Abdel Hadi to intervene in order to resolve the impasse. The Egyptian Telephone Company is owned by private investors (70 percent), the Egyptian Telecommunications Company (10 percent) and the National Bank of Egypt (10 percent). The remaining 10 percent is owned by the syndicate.

05 September, 2009 Imposing unions from above to counter those built from below

Al Shourouq reports: Hussein Megawer, head of the Egyptian Trade Union Federation, has announced that a new general union - the 24th in Egypt - is being established for employees of tax and customs authorities who previously belonged to the union for bank and insurance employees. The new imposed-from-above-union will supposedly represent the employees of the real estate tax collectors, who founded their own independent union in december 2008. This decision comes as the leader of the free union had been summoned for interrogation by the North Giza prosecutor today after being accused by Megawer of the ETUF of "spreading information that has damaged the reputation of Egypt."

more: http://scandegypt.blogspot.com/2009/09/imposing-unions-from-above-to-counter.html (

Scribbles of a Swedish journalist in Cairo: Per Bjorklund A freelance journalist currently based in Cairo. Covering the daily struggles for a another Egypt and another Middle East, that are too often made invisible in the narratives of mainstream media.)

see also: http://arabist.net/arabawy/

WE DONT NEED NO LIQUIDATION http://arabist.net/arabawy/

10th of Ramadan Textile Workers self-manage factory Aug 30 2009

When their owner fled the country ahead of a jail sentence, the employees at the Economic Company for Industrial Development, faced looming unemployment and the closure of the company's multiple textile factories. A common enough story in Egypt these days, but in this case, the workers instead embarked on a landmark labor experiment. For nearly a year, three of the Economic Company’s textile factories in 10th of Ramadan City have essentially been running themselves.

Antony Loewenstein and The Blogging Revolution by Giovanni Torre 2009-04-03

Antony Loewenstein's latest book - The Blogging Revolution - documents his travels through Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, China and Cuba and his meetings with independent journalists and writers. He recently spoke to Indymedia.

http://perth.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=143243

Four years ago Antony Loewenstein began work on My Israel Question, a scathing critique of the occupation of Palestine. For a nice Jewish boy from Melbourne, it was a bold move. “Most of the vitriol around my work on Israel/Palestine comes from Jews, sadly, who simply refuse to accept their homeland is a rogue state that commits horrible wars crimes in the occupied territories.

April 6, 2009 there will be a GENERAL STRIKE AND DAY OF RAGE against Egyptian Mubarak capitalistic dictatorship. All Comrades world wide, let’s join in our struggle to spread the news everywhere! Encourage the people to join the strike!

Organize a protest in front of Egyptian Embassy! What ever you can do, JUST DO IT! Spread this message now! We must be able to count on each other and support one another! Now is the time! NOW IS OUR CHANCE!

We are doing this strike because We need salaries allowing us to live, we need to work, we want our children to get education, we need human transportation means, we want hospitals to get treatment, we want medicines for our children, we need just judiciary, we want security, we want freedom and dignity, we want apartments for youth;