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Manpower Ministry blacklists some Saudi and Libyan companies
Al-Masry Al-Youm 13 Dec 2012
The Manpower and Immigration Ministry has ordered local companies to stop contracting with Libyan construction and...
Minister: No more than four Brotherhood members to be named to union boards
Egypt Independent 26 Nov 2012
Changes to the Egyptian Trade Unions Federation leadership would not promote more than four Muslim Brotherhood members...
Metro drivers threaten to reduce train speeds
Al-Masry Al-Youm 13 Nov 2012
Metro drivers striking at the Shubra al-Kheima Station on Tuesday threatened to reduce train speeds to 40 km per hour (...
Ain Sokhna Port crisis ends, but demands remain
Jano Charbel 26 Oct 2012
While workers at the Ain Sokhna Port called off their 12-day long strike and returned to work on Wednesday after...
Ain ​​Sokhna port strike ends
MENA 24 Oct 2012
Ain Sokhna Port workers and DP World have reached to an agreement to resume work in the port, which has been shut down...
The Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions (EFITU) and the Egyptian Democratic Labor Congress (EDLC) "join forces", at a meeting innaugurated by Ahmed Hassan Borie
Independent unions declare new alliance
Jano Charbel 15 Oct 2012
In a historic development, two independent workers’ groups and several political parties joined forces on Monday...
Riot police stand guard while anti-Morsy protester sleeps during sit-in in front of the presidential palace in Heliopolis, Cairo, 25 August 2012. Opponents of Egypt's President Mohamed Morsy scuffled with his supporters on Friday during a demonstration that posed the first test of the Islamist leader's popularity on the street
Factory workers protest outside presidential palace
Al-Masry Al-Youm 04 Sep 2012
Workers from the Nasr Automotive, Ideal and Steam Boilers factories on Tuesday staged protests outside the presidential...
South Africa police fire tear gas as mine unrest spreads
Reuters 03 Sep 2012
JOHANNESBURG — South African police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse striking miners at a gold mine...
Constituent Assembly may scrap workers' and farmers’ quota in Parliament
Jano Charbel 26 Aug 2012
The 50 percent quota for workers and farmers in Egypt’s Parliament — enforced for nearly five decades...
Labor protests outside presidential palace
Al-Masry Al-Youm 22 Aug 2012
  Workers from the privatized Steam Boilers Company, the Ideal Company and the Kouta Steel Company staged protests...