During the period from 15 June to 30 June, ANHRI’s Trade Unions, Labor Protests and Social Movements Monitoring Center monitored 14 protest movements, including 5 labor and professional protests in addition to 9 social protests.
- Protesting methods:
The reporting period was characterized by a variety of protest methods, on top of which was “gathering” with 5 cases, followed by “suicide” with 3 cases, then came “sit-in” and “complaints” in the third place with 2 cases each, while “vigils” and “strikes” came in the fourth place with one case each.
The most important protests took place during this period:
- A group of workers at the Cardboard boxes (carton) factory in Abu-Rawash industrial area organized, on June 18, a gathering in protest against their suspension from work and deduction of salaries under no reason. Also, workers and employees at Grand Nile Tower Hotel (previously Grand Hyatt) entered an open sit-in inside the hotel in the evening of June 21, to protest the non disbursement of their salaries for the past months of April and May and to denounce the hotel’s administration’s attempt to exploit the coronavirus pandemic to reduce the employees’ wages.
- The monitoring center also documented unusual forms of protesting, including the sit-in organized by the prominent Leftist professor Laila Suef, the mother of detainee Alaa Abdel-Fattah, and Mona Seif in front of Tora Prison gate on June 21 demanding to be allowed to receive a letter from her son.
- Distribution of protests in Egypt’s governorates
Cairo governorate topped all the governorates with 4 protests, while Giza came second with 3 protests, followed by Daqahlia with 2 protests, while the governorates of Alexandria, Ismailia, Damietta, Fayoum and Sohag witnessed only one protest each.
- The protesting sectors
The reporting period witnessed 4 protests in the Education and Scientific Research sector; owing to the start of Thanawyia Amma (High School) examination after it was postponed due the coronoavirus pandemic, in addition to the new measures taken by the Ministry of Education to limit the spread of the crisis.
The other sectors came second with 3 protests each, due to the continuation of suicide cases as a means to protest the poor economic and social conditions, while the sectors of (security, housing, sports, health, tourism, chemical industries, localities and services) came last with one protest each.
- Professional unions
On 26 June, the Egyptian Dental Syndicate issued a statement announcing it will hold its midterm elections on Thursday, July 9, 2020.
On the other hand, the decision issued by the Court of Administrative Justice at the State Council upholding the Engineers Syndicate election’s results held in 2018, has led to controversy.
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