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South Africa police fire tear gas as mine unrest spreads
World
September 3, 2012
South Africa police fire tear gas as mine unrest spreads
JOHANNESBURG — South African police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse striking miners at a gold mine near…
Labor protests: Causes and solutions
Opinion
August 30, 2012
Labor protests: Causes and solutions
It seems that the alarm bells are tolling to deaf ears. The socioeconomic situation in Egypt has become critical. Labor…
Constituent Assembly may scrap workers’ and farmers’ quota in Parliament
Egypt
August 26, 2012
Constituent Assembly may scrap workers’ and farmers’ quota in Parliament
The 50 percent quota for workers and farmers in Egypt’s Parliament — enforced for nearly five decades — is in…
Labor protests outside presidential palace
Egypt
August 22, 2012
Labor protests outside presidential palace
Workers from the privatized Steam Boilers Company, the Ideal Company and the Kouta Steel Company staged protests outside the…
Sukari Gold Mine to resume operation Tuesday
Egypt
July 30, 2012
Sukari Gold Mine to resume operation Tuesday
Operation would be resumed fully on Tuesday in the Sukari Gold Mine after a nine-day hiatus, during which the workers…
1,500 gold mine workers enter third day of strikes
Egypt
July 25, 2012
1,500 gold mine workers enter third day of strikes
Fifteen hundred Sukari Gold Mine workers have declared a third day of strikes as they demand raises, the re-hiring…
29 striking workers dismissed from Sukari gold mine
Egypt
July 24, 2012
29 striking workers dismissed from Sukari gold mine
The management of Sukari gold mine in Upper Egypt fired 29 workers Tuesday, including members of the executive office of…
Thousands of textile workers suspend strikes
Egypt
July 24, 2012
Thousands of textile workers suspend strikes
Thousands of Egyptian state textile workers suspended their strikes on Tuesday after receiving concessions in a pay dispute that brought…
Workers unite, rally against abuses
Egypt
July 19, 2012
Workers unite, rally against abuses
A labor conference was held at the Journalists Syndicate on Thursday with the aim of detailing the condition of more…
Mahalla resurgent: Workers assert political independence
Egypt
July 19, 2012
Mahalla resurgent: Workers assert political independence
MAHALLA — Around 23,000 workers at Egypt’s largest textile company, the Misr Company for Spinning and Weaving, began an open-ended…