Home
Hossam el-Hamalawy's Library tagged → View Popular
Egypt and beyond: "We want to live"
-
"We are victims of privatization," one worker called Mustapha told me. "We are not demanding any raise or anything, just our salaries. We are creating a profit, so where is our rights? We are not going to give up. We want to live!"
حفلة تعذيب لـ(نقاش) مجاملة لموظف كبير - بوابة الشروق
Privatization of Torture: Worker tortured by police as a "favor" for a senior govt official
تغطية وصور لندوة تضامن: كيف يواجه العمال الأزمة الاقتصادية؟ « تضامن
Coverage of Tadamon's event: "How can the workers confront the economic crisis?"
Egypt and beyond: The minister in Shebeen el-Kom
Aisha abd el-Hady reportedly vowed that no privatized companies would return to the state (as many of the workers demanded during the strike), and said that the government is commited to the sucess of the indian investor
Egypt and beyond: The Shebeen el-Kom drama continues
"In any case, it is clear that the strike at Shebeen el-Kom will have huge implications, since it raises doubts around the economic polices of the state, threatening further privatization schemes in the textile industry in particular. Whatever the outcome, the experience of Shebeen el-Kom is likely to further strengthen resistance to privatization among workers in other state owned factories"
Egypt and beyond: Shebeen el-Kom strikers denounce privatization
For the workers, the transfer of the factory to a private investor has been a catastrophe. The stories they told sounded very similar to that of other recently privatized companies like Telemisr or Tanta Linen Co. Since 2007, the new management has refused to pay bonuses worth a total of 10 million pounds, while allegedly paying 6 million pounds cash to about 200 workers that agreed to early retirement. Since it was privatized, the losses of the company has more than tripled - even before the global financial crisis started. Workers accuse the new owner of deliberately sabotaging the factory to eliminate competition, and of buying dysfunctional old machines from his other factories in Pakistan and Indonesia at trumped-up prices as a way to transfer resources abroad
Selected Tags
Related Tags
Sponsored Links
Top Contributors
Groups interested in privatiz...
-
water politics
Items: 52 | Visits: 2
Created by: Jerry Monaco
Highlighter, Sticky notes, Tagging, Groups and Network: integrated suite dramatically boosting research productivity. Learn more »
Join Diigo