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In Labor Stronghold of Mahalla, Vote Split Between Morsy and Sabbahi
![[A man casts his vote in Mahalla. Image originally posted to Flickr by Nehal El-Sherif.]](/content_images/3/sm_7258153456_831ea130f0.jpg "[A man casts his vote in Mahalla. Image originally posted to Flickr by Nehal El-Sherif.]")
The city of Mahalla, which some call the "Industrial Citadel of the Nile Delta," conducted its first day of landmark presidential elections Wednesday amid a lower-than-expected voter turnout, witnesses and observers said. Mahalla is home to the largest textile company in Egypt and the Middle East, the Egyptian Spinning and Weaving Company, which has consistently been at the forefront of labor struggles and strikes. This Nile Delta city also boasts a number of ...
Keep Reading »Political Estrangement, Legal Challenges Hamper Labor Movement
![[May Day protests in Cairo. Image by Hossam Hamalawy]](/content_images/3/sm_mayday.jpg "[May Day protests in Cairo. Image by Hossam Hamalawy]")
With the ongoing marginalization of Egypt’s working classes, the revolutionary demands of “bread, freedom, and social justice” remain distant goals. On this second Labor Day since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, numerous labor grievances remain unaddressed, and workers are just as politically sidelined as they were prior to the revolution, observers say. The Mubarak regime had been blamed for oppressing and exploiting workers, along with the rest of the nation, for 30 years. With ...
Keep Reading »One Year On, Labor Revolution Is Stalling
![[Hundreds of Alexandria's harbor workers staging protest before gate 10 on 15 January 2012. Workers protested against retired military officials who still occupy leading harbor administrative positions and demanded disbursement of their bonuses. They warned of going on an open-ended strike. Image from Mahmoud Taha, http://www.almasryalyoum.com]](/content_images/3/sm_tswyr_mhmwd_th_6_0.jpg.crop_display.jpg "[Hundreds of Alexandria's harbor workers staging protest before gate 10 on 15 January 2012. Workers protested against retired military officials who still occupy leading harbor administrative positions and demanded disbursement of their bonuses. They warned of going on an open-ended strike. Image from Mahmoud Taha, http://www.almasryalyoum.com]")
On 30 January 2011, only five days into the revolution, the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions was born, the first such federation to be established in since the union movement was monopolized by the state-controlled Egyptian Trade Union Federation in 1957. Since then, some three hundred independent unions have been established nationwide, with a reported membership of nearly two million workers. But nearly one year later, these unions remain unrecognized by ...
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