EGYPT—Center for Trade Union & Workers Services (CTUWS) on Thursday launched a Fifty-day campaign for the freedom of association and social justice”.
The launch was attended by hundreds of representatives of independent trade unions and workers.
A statement released during the launch ceremony, indicated that the campaign calls for cancelling all legal restrictions on workers rights to form independent trade unions by passing a trade union organizations law, according to latest version provided by the Ministry of Manpower and Immigration.
The campaign calls for abolishing all legal restrictions on the right of workers to form independent trade unions and enactment freedom of association law and according to latest draft provided by Ministry of Manpower and Immigration. It also calls for ensuring the right of trade unions in unity and separation and workers right in public enterprise sector units and in all units to ensure independence of their trade unions along with all right.
The campaign emphasized the need to grant workers’ rights in the Egyptian Trade Union Federation’s funds, assets and institutions, calling for reinstating the laid-off workers for their trade union activities or their representation of workers.
The campaign calls for activating democratic mechanism-based collective bargaining at all levels and involvement of workers in them, especially labor laws, insurance and social service laws that affect them.
The campaign also touches on the need to discuss reform and development in public sector companies’ file, and to settle outstanding status of stalled companies or those companies upon which judicial rulings were issued.
The campaign calls for the need to ensure rights of non-organized workers in informal sector, through fair and disciplined mechanisms to integrate and protect their rights.
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