egypt ארכיון

  • Hundreds of workers organized by the Workers Advice Center (WAC) marched Saturday (April 30) in Tel Aviv to call for equality, social justice and solidarity with the popular uprisings in the Arab world. Truck drivers, college lecturers, social workers, agricultural laborers, quarry workers, waiters, students and activists – all marched to mark International Workers Day for the sixth successive year.

    “If they are doing it in Egypt we can do it here!”

    Hundreds of workers organized by the Workers Advice Center (WAC) marched Saturday (April 30) in Tel Aviv to call for equality, social justice and solidarity with the popular uprisings in the Arab world. Truck drivers, college lecturers, social workers, agricultural laborers, quarry workers, waiters, students and activists – all marched to mark International Workers Day for the sixth successive year.

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  • CAIRO — Thousands of workers packed into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday, demanding social justice in post-revolt Egypt as they celebrate their first Labour Day in three decades without ousted president Hosni Mubarak.

    Egypt workers flood Tahrir Square for ‘social justice’

    CAIRO — Thousands of workers packed into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday, demanding social justice in post-revolt Egypt as they celebrate their first Labour Day in three decades without ousted president Hosni Mubarak.

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  • <p>The two independent trade unions in Israel - WAC-MAAN and Power to The Workers  - will hold a solidarity demonstration in Tel Aviv to support the Egyptian workers and people struggle on February 8</p>

    Trade unions in Israel stand in Solidarity with the Egyptian popular revolution

    The two independent trade unions in Israel - WAC-MAAN and Power to The Workers - will hold a solidarity demonstration in Tel Aviv to support the Egyptian workers and people struggle on February 8

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  • Egypt is going through historical moments… Its people is courageously struggling to defend the right to live a decent life… the right to dignity, freedom and social justice… to decent opportunities and just pay… to a democratic society for all, offering every single citizen a share in its wealth and GNP… a society that does not allow few to buy private jets whereas the rest of the population cannot even afford public transportation… a society that refuses to pay the top of the pyramid salaries higher thousand of time than minimum wage.

    Founding declaration of new independent trade union federation in Egypt – 30.1.11

    Egypt is going through historical moments… Its people is courageously struggling to defend the right to live a decent life… the right to dignity, freedom and social justice… to decent opportunities and just pay… to a democratic society for all, offering every single citizen a share in its wealth and GNP… a society that does not allow few to buy private jets whereas the rest of the population cannot even afford public transportation… a society that refuses to pay the top of the pyramid salaries higher thousand of time than minimum wage.

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