labor movement

Presidential candidates are out and about on Labor Day trying to gather support from laborers, a key constituency. While laborers…

With the ongoing marginalization of Egypt’s working classes, the revolutionary demands of “bread, freedom, and social justice” remain distant goals.…

A new draft law introduced in Parliament threatens to dissolve the independent trade unions that have sprung up in various…

On 30 January, only five days into the revolution, the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions was born, the first…

Hundreds of employees from public sector companies and government institutions staged a protest on Sunday in front of the temporary…

Presidential hopeful Amr Moussa has said he is contacting and negotiating with the European Union (EU) in order to recover…

Just when everyone thought that the fervor of Egypt’s revolution might be flagging, labor protests and fears of a Mubarak-era…

The recently liberated Egyptian labor movement is being courted by international union federations looking for inroads into one of the…

A recurrence of Tunisia's uprising in unlikely to occur in Egypt because the country lacks a strong independent labor movement,…

In 1993, Ashraf el-Hefny got his first job as a mathematics teacher at a public school in the coastal city…