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Egypte : multiplication des grèves ouvrières dans la foulée des manifestations contre Moubarak. La classe ouvrière donne un tour nouveau à la lutte. La première grève de six mille travailleurs du canal de Suez a notamment commencé... et tous les secteurs sont concernés : Textile, Tourisme, Santé, Employés, Ouvriers agricoles, Aéroport du Caire, Télécommunications, journalistes, etc... Le prolétariat est en marche. Nul ne peut dire jusqu’où il va aller.... WORKING CLASS IS SHAKING THE EGYPT AND ... THE WORLD...

13 February 2011, 22:33, by Michael

14-02-2011

As of tomorrow, the military council which is currently in power in Egypt will ban all labour gatherings. Strikes will also be banned, and punitive measures will soon be announced against whoever causes chaos and disorders. It was revealed by a source of the Egyptian military.

More than 700 Egyptian workers staged sit-ins in different towns on Sunday in Sinai Peninsula, asking for better wages and working conditions.

Hundreds of workers, who are employed by a company providing service to the multinational peacekeeping forces, gathered outside the office building of the peacekeeping force in Sharm El-Sheikh and El Gorah, demanding rise of their wages.

The mission of the multinational peace keeping force is to watch the execution of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty, which was signed in 1979.

The supreme council of Egyptian armed forces issued "Communique NO. 4" on Saturday, stating it respects all regional and international treaties and agreements, in response to doubts over the Egyptian-Israel peace treaty.

Meanwhile, around 300 workers launched strikes in hospitals and mining sites in north Sinai’s Arish, asking for permanent jobs and medical insurance contracts.

Workers at Egypt’s largest factory have suspended a strike in support of the revolt that toppled strongman Hosni Mubarak but will continue to press for higher wages, they told AFP on Sunday.

’We have stopped striking for now, but we will continue to demand a raise in the minimum wage,’ strike organiser Faisal Naousha said.

Workers at the Misr Spinning and Weaving textile factory — which employs 24,000 people in the Nile Delta city of Al-Mahalla al-Kubra — had protested at the factory on Thursday, calling for political and economic changes.

’Mubarak’s resignation was one of our main demands. Now that it has happened, we will refocus on our economic demands,’ Naousha said.

Last year a court ruling raised the minimum wage from 400 LE ($A68) to 1200 LE ($A203.45), but the workers have not received their dues, he said.

Strikers at the textile plant were joined by government workers across the country in calling for higher pay and better work conditions.

’We need to be practical,’ Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq told Egyptian television in reference to ongoing strikes around the country.

’It’s very difficult to respond to the demands of all the government employees. The government will do everything it can do,’ he said, adding that it would take a gradual approach in order to maintain credibility.

’We don’t want to make big promises and then fail to deliver.’

The military leadership that assumed power with Mubarak’s resignation on Friday has said the cabinet he hastily appointed in the early days of the revolt would stay on until democratic elections can be held.

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