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ITF: Egypt no-strike decree 'would be betrayal of struggle'
29 March 2011
ITF: Egypt no-strike decree 'would be betrayal of democratic struggle'
The ITF has said that a reported plan to criminalise strikes in Egypt would be a betrayal of the country’s recent struggle which overthrew the Mubarak government.
Supporting a call from the ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation) to the Egyptian Prime Minister (see below), ITF general secretary David Cockroft said: “Egyptian workers played a crucial role in the fight for democracy. To try and deny them their basic democratic right to lawful industrial action would be a travesty of what the people of Egypt fought for and won. This draft plan must be repudiated immediately by the government.”
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