AFL-CIO's Trumka Backs New Anti Mubarak Egyptian Labor Federation
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| Richard Trumka |
From the Communist Party USA's Peoples World.
Egyptian workers...have broken away to form their own independent unions and federation and join the popular protests against President Hosni Mubarak's dictatorial rule.Who will Trumka blame when American workers pay double to fill their gas tanks?
In a Jan. 30 declaration the new Egyptian Federation of Independent Unions said its demands include the right to organize and the right to work at a decent minimum wage, rather than be unemployed.
Like the other protesters, the new federation also demands Mubarak quit. The federation then called a general strike to back its demands.
The new federation, unveiled at a press conference in the jammed central Tahrir Square in Cairo, includes the Real Estate Tax Authority (RETA) workers, the Retired Workers Union, the Health Professionals Union, the Teachers Independent Union and several other independent unions.
The workers' movement drew support from both AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and the International Trades Union Congress. Trumka said the new confederation's role in the protests "inspires us and will not be forgotten..."
Trumka wrote to RETA President Kamal Abu Eita and to Kamal Abbas, director of the Independent Egyptian labor group, the Center for Trade Union Worker Services, that their "organizations symbolize the strrength and courage of Egyptian workers and their families who have been standing up to repression for many years."
"We salute you in this brave endeavor" of forming the new labor federation "and join the international labor movement in standing with you," Trumka added. "The peoples' movement for democracy in Egypt and the role unions are playing for freedom and worker rights inspires us and will not be forgotten," he concluded.
posted by Trevor Loudon at
2/07/2011 11:51:00 AM
3 Comments:
I am a little unnerved at the willingness of the openly Marxist/Socialist/Communist to come out of the closet. Their ranks and power have been growing and no doubt getting Obama elected was a big boost to their goals. But in the past they have operated in the shadows and denied thier heritage in public. So what has changed? I believe that they are confident they cannot be stopped. Success after success recently and an openly Marxist president have convinced them they cannot be stopped. What do they know that we don't? What are their plans?
well look at egypt and see what they have planned for here!
In Egypt and the middle East the people of those nations are being used by the marxist/socialist/communist/unions/brotherhood, and many other groups that have put their plans in motion.
President Obama will sell anyone out for his own purpose. The whole middle east is going to become Islam and then we are next. Start praying for a new president and peace for us and israel.
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