Recent elections show that Egypt seems to be more concerned with being blacklisted than labor rights
Independent labor unions were among those who joined the June 30 movement, but 3 years on, they say that they have not reaped any benefits for their once strong support.
A Giza court commenced a case against Egypt’s independent trade unions on Sunday, filed by the state-controlled Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF), which has called for their dissolution. The ETUF claims independent…
Independent labor unions flourished across Egypt with the popular uprising of 2011, but this growth translated neither into unity nor strength, and these independent associations appear to have withered away…
Fatma Ramadan, board member of the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions (EFITU), announced on Wednesday that she has frozen her membership,…
Egypt commemorated Labor Day in two different locations, on two different days, and in markedly different ways. The first, a state-sponsored celebration,…
Over the past three days, a host of trade unions and labor rights organizations have denounced what they describe as heavy-handed…
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