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Trade unions in Egypt first emerged at the start of the 20th century, although organised collective action in the form of strikes undertaken by workers was recorded as early as 1882. [2] : 48 Following Egypt's formal independence in the mid-1950s trade unions were incorporated into state structures and only one officially recognised national ...
The Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF) is a trade union based in Cairo, Egypt. History and profile In February 2011, workers dissatisfied with the refusal of the leadership of the ETUF to support the Arab Spring protested outside the offices of the union. The ETUF was founded in 1957 as a state-controlled union.
The Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions ( EFITU, also referred to as the Egyptian Independent Trade Union Federation [1]) was the first independent national trade union center to be founded following the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Previously, independent trade unionism was illegal and almost all trade unions were under government ...
A group of trade union officials, led by al-Mudarrik, went on an indefinite hunger strike on June 12. The hunger strike, whilst failing to convince the government to adopt such a legislation, became highly publicised. In the fall of 1939, a wave of layoffs affected the workers in Egypt, parallel to staggering cost of living and decline in real ...
Workers Committee for National Liberation – Political Organisation for the Working Class. Categories: Labour in Egypt. Political organisations based in Egypt. Trade unions by country. Trade unions in Africa by country. Trade unions in Asia by country.
Kamal Abbas ( Egyptian Arabic: كمال عباس; born in 1955) is General Coordinator of the Center for Trade Unions and Workers Services (CTUWS), an activist group for independent unions in Egypt. [2] Involved in activism for over 20 years, [3] Abbas has been active in mobilizing worker support during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and its ...
Egypt. Egypt–European Union relations are the foreign relations between the country of Egypt and the European Union. [1] Under the aegis of the Global Mediterranean Policy (GMP) launched in 1972, an agreement between the European Economic Community and Egypt was signed in January 1977. [2] The framework laid out by the 1995 Euro-Mediterranean ...
The Manual Trade Workers Union (Niqabat 'Ummal al-Sana'i' al-Yadawiyya) was a union created in 1909 to further the interests of Egyptian trade laborers and craftsmen and protect them from the growing influence of foreign imperialists on the employment sphere in Egypt .