Year/Issue
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Action
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Result
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2011
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October 24
Better working conditions, removal of current minister, payment of promised wages, better medical care and trial in civilian, not military courts, for low-ranking police.
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Thousands of low level policemen protest at Ministry of Interior |
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October 9
Failure of government to protect Coptic Chistian churches and Coptic citizens from attack.
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10,000 Copts and their Muslim friends protest in front of State Television and Radio building. |
Field Marshall Tantawi meets with Coptic Pope Shenouda to discuss issues. |
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September 30
Re-imposition of emergency laws, military trials of civilians-which deprive them of basic rights, lack of confidence in military's willingness to transfer power to civiians.
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Million man march in Cairo planned |
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September 17
Public transport workers call for better wages, 200% increase in minimum salaries promised to others in public sector, upgraded bus fleet,uniforms, and 10-month bonus for retiring drivers |
10 day strike by members of Independent Union of Transport Workers. 25% of Cairo's depots affection. Dozens began a hunger strike. |
After first refusing to meet with union representatives, government acceded. A tentative agreement reached on September 27. |
| September
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- Restructucturing of wage system and and removal of corrupt figures.
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No response from SCAF |
September
Postal Service corrupt managers, over-paid consultants, lack of annual pay increase to keep up with inflation, and call for200% bonus for workers meeting annual production goals |
Strikers closed down 50% of operations
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No response from SCAF |
August
Maikel Nabil, activist and blogger, arrested after revolution for criticizing military, demands release. |
Hunger strike |
As of September 27, Nabil is nearing death. |
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June
Variety of issues
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Scattered strikes by employees of Nasr Car Company, tenant farmers, graduates of Al-Azhar University, staff from antiquities ministry. |
No response from SCAF |
May
Doctors and hospital workers call for minimum and maxmimum wage as well as improved working conditions. |
Strikes on and off since May.
Establishment of one independent uinion of hospital workers. |
No response from SCAF |
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January/February
18-day protest calling for:
- resignation of Hosni Mubarak
- repeal of emergency laws
- respects for citizens and law
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12 million Egyptians said to have protested around the country. |
- Mubarak resigns
- Transitional military government established
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2010
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June
Failure of Egypt's prosecutor to charge two police officers with deadly bruality in the arrest and death of Khaled Said, a businessman and alleged publisher of information on police corruption.
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11000 citizens |
In October 2011, two policeman were found guilty of killing Said and sentenced to 7 years in prison.
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2009
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February
Failure of Shebeen el Kom textile company to pay incentives as promised.
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Up to 4200 textile workers at Shebeen el Kom Textile company strike |
Company paid up. |
May-November
Demand for Saudi and Egyptian government owners of Tanta Flax and Oil firing of workers who participated in 2007 strike as well as issues around wages and badly managed privitization. |
1000 flax and oil workers strike |
Court favors reinstating the seven workers; wages issues unresolved. |
December
Confiscation and destruction of photojournalist's cameras. Arrest and/or physical assault by police of journalists covering pro-Gaza protests.
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Photojournalists silent protest |
Government continued to harrass journalists |
2008
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More than 1000 actions
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March
Government-directed union's failure to represent workers. |
6000 workers at Misr Spinning and Weaving striike |
Government shows nervousness |
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April 6, 200
Repressive government and rising cost of food.
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General Strike,
promoted by Facebook activists, quieted the streets but did not meet goals of activists. |
A month later, President Mubarak raised government employees salaries by 30%. (Not long after he reduced the subsidy on gas.) |
2007
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580 actions |
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September
Protest again the arrest and trial of journalist Ibrahim Issa for reporting that the president's health might have been poor.
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15 opposition and private publishers refuse to publish |
Court favors reinstating the seven workers; wages issues unresolved. |
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September
Salaries dramatically lower than most government workers and dramatically lower than those in Ministry of Finance.
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24000 workers strike |
Government offers a bonues equivalent to 45 days pay, payable immediately and 10% of profit over 60 million Egyptian pounds. Said to mark a new phase in labor protests in Egypt: The action was not spontaneous but well-strategized and organized.
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| Tax collectors salaries dramatically lower than most government workers and dramatically lower than those in Ministry of Finance. |
Tax collectors protest
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Collectors established an independent union and their pay more than doubled.
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| Variety of bread and butter complaints |
Strikes by transport workers, subway workers, food processing workers, garbage collectors, poultry workers, bakers and physicians |
Varied |
| 2006 |
222 Actions
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Failure of a government owned el-Mahalla textile company Misr Spinning and Weaving to pay promised bonuses.
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3000 women lead strike of an ultimate 27000
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- Factory temporarily closed down; three days of demonstrations.
- Egyptian labor expert Joel Beinin said strike "reverberated" throughout the textile sector. Government bends.
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2005
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May
Judges object against their loss of supervisory control over elections
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Judges threaten boycott |
No change
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400 workers strike
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No change |