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Dubai, May 11: The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE) will begin accepting applications for the first edition of the Emirates Labour Market Award on June 1, 2023.

With 2016, the situation of Egyptian political forces and Civil Society Organizations is deteriorating within an increasingly complex environment (...)

Doctors in Madrid, Spain resume indefinite strike over staffing levels and pay, joined by workers in emergency health; UK ambulance workers hold one-day strike over pay, as NHS nurses prepare for further stoppages and junior doctors begin pay ballot; protests and strikes continue in Iran over cost of living and murder by police of Mahsa Amini; health workers in Zimbabwe planning national pay strike face sackings, fines and imprisonment under new anti-strike law

Greek healthcare workers in three national strikes in last two weeks over pay and job insecurity; Hungarian teachers protest following government’s attack on right to strike after 20,000 joined two-hour warning strike; UK High Court attack on right to picket continues at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital strike by security staff; food workers’ strike to defend jobs and pay continues at Clover, South Africa despite workers facing hardship and attacks from management thugs

Asem Afifi reported to have been unable to pay debts after his wages were not paid for months

The Egyptian labor movement has a long history of resistance, but the current repressive regime is coming down hard on independent trade union organizing.

Egypt Monday 24 May 2021, by Joel Beinin CALLING THE OCCUPATION of Tahrir and other urban squares in Egypt and the January-February 2011 ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak a “revolution” — as is common — is not a helpful characterization of the events. The terms Arab Spring and Arab Winter are even less helpful because they obscure the social struggles of the decade preceding Mubarak’s ouster, which continue today. According to the Arab Network for Human Rights Information, in ...

The army’s encroachment on the civilian economy is costing Egyptian workers dearly Workers at the Delta fertilizer company on 9 December 2020 after many long weeks of protest against the factory’s closure. (Mahmoud Hefnawy ) Share this page Workers at the Delta fertilizer company on 9 December 2020 after many long weeks of protest against the factory’s closure. (Mahmoud Hefnawy ) Their faces marked by exhaustion and sadness, thousands of Delta fertilizer company employees continue with th...