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The French Center Staff Gone on 3-Daylong Strike
by malek | أربعاء, 23/04/2008 - 19:08
The Coordinating Committee for Labor Rights and Liberties
The French Center Staff Gone on 3-Daylong Strike
The staffs of the Cairo-based French Culture Center have been on strike—a 3-daylong strike, since Sunday March 9, 2008. The strike has been ignited on protest against the management's lay-off plan that started with firing 20 Egyptian employees. The management sent the staffs an ultimatum requiring them to present resignations in return for granting them a month-pay for each year. In case of rejection, the management threatened, they will be fired without receiving any financial remedy. While this pressure had yielded results with some staffs, it failed with the others. Further, to preclude their strike, the management had compelled the employees to take a non-paid holiday.
Confronting these arbitrary and unilateral decisions, the syndicate affiliated with the French Foreign Office (CFDT-MAE) had submitted to the French Foreign Minister, on behalf of its members, an ultimatum of going on strike. More important, the CFDT-MAE condemned the management's conduct in a press release titled "No to Staff's Lay-off in Cairo and Alexandria". It described it as an uncalculated initiative, and denied the pressures the management used to compel the employees to bargain individually.
In solidarity with the fired staff, the Coordinating Committee for Labor Rights and Liberties not only condemns the management's arbitrary decisions, but also condemns the Egyptian departments and the Ministry of Labor Forces for their failure in preserving the rights of Egyptian employees.
The French Center Staff Gone on 3-Daylong Strike
The staffs of the Cairo-based French Culture Center have been on strike—a 3-daylong strike, since Sunday March 9, 2008. The strike has been ignited on protest against the management's lay-off plan that started with firing 20 Egyptian employees. The management sent the staffs an ultimatum requiring them to present resignations in return for granting them a month-pay for each year. In case of rejection, the management threatened, they will be fired without receiving any financial remedy. While this pressure had yielded results with some staffs, it failed with the others. Further, to preclude their strike, the management had compelled the employees to take a non-paid holiday.
Confronting these arbitrary and unilateral decisions, the syndicate affiliated with the French Foreign Office (CFDT-MAE) had submitted to the French Foreign Minister, on behalf of its members, an ultimatum of going on strike. More important, the CFDT-MAE condemned the management's conduct in a press release titled "No to Staff's Lay-off in Cairo and Alexandria". It described it as an uncalculated initiative, and denied the pressures the management used to compel the employees to bargain individually.
In solidarity with the fired staff, the Coordinating Committee for Labor Rights and Liberties not only condemns the management's arbitrary decisions, but also condemns the Egyptian departments and the Ministry of Labor Forces for their failure in preserving the rights of Egyptian employees.
