Motion
- Motion title
- SOAS
- Session
- 2007-2008
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 28 May 2008
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- L2
- Motion text
UCU congress calls for the immediate release of the three workers from Ghazl al-Mahalla textile factory detained by the Egyptian authorities on 6 April, and all others detained during protests calling for a rise in the national minimum wage that day. We are deeply concerned by reports that Kareem al-Beheiry, Kamal al-Fayyoumy and Tareq Amin were tortured in custody and that their health has deteriorated while in detention.
We wish to express our solidarity with our brother and sister workers in Egypt who are fighting to defend their living standards. We call on the Egyptian government to recognise the right of Egyptian workers to organise trade unions free from state interference and intimidation.
UCU congress resolves:
i. to mandate the General Secretary to write to the Egyptian minister of the Interior communicating these views
ii. to circulate information to UCU branches about the campaign for trade union independence in Egypt
- Proposing body
- SOAS, University of London
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Strategy and finance committee (SFC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2008/C/05-28/009/L2