Reuters: Egypt's New Military Rulers To Ban Union Meetings and Strikes!

[Better Believe It]

Egypt's New Military Rulers To Ban Union Meetings
by Marwa Awad and Alistair Lyon
Reuters
February 13, 2011

CAIRO - Egypt's new military rulers will issue a warning on Sunday against anyone who creates "chaos and disorder", an army source said.

The Higher Military Council will also ban meetings by labour unions or professional syndicates, effectively forbidding strikes, and tell all Egyptians to get back to work after the unrest that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

The army will also say it acknowledges and protects the right of people to protest, the source said.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/13-1

[originalpckelly]

1. And so it starts.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

[Baclava]

10. Back to work, slaves!

nothing new to see here, move along

[David__77]

2. What has happened was a fascist coup, not a revolution.

There could still be a revolution, possibly, if the Egyptian people do not remain vigilant. So far, it does not look good.

[originalpckelly]

3. And of course, if they do have some type of new dictatorship...

we'll be buddy-buddy with it.

There's too much riding on this for the US to just give up that easily. We have to have the Suez open for business, so that we can get oil. We also need to have Egypt pacified so they won't cause any problems with Israel.

[Better Believe It]

5. The military ruled Egypt under Mubarak and they still rule Egypt.

The only changes they will make are those forced upon them in the streets.

[Better Believe It]

4. No, Nazis haven't taken over Egypt. But let's loosely throw around the word fascist

against anything we don't like so that the term looses all serious political meaning and understanding.

We won't find any revolutionists or democracy protesters in Egypt that believe a "fascist coup" has taken power in Egypt.

Some people actually think we live under a fascism regime in the United States!!!!!

That's why they can post that opinion on Democratic Underground!

[David__77]

18. Nazis were German fascists.

I take the definition of fascism as the superceding of parliamentary system with the full consolidation of political power in the hands of the ruling class. The suppression of workers is critical. Corporativism, integral to fascist ideology, is upheld by the Egyptian officers' corp.

[Better Believe It]

19. A democratic parliamentary system will civil liberties did not exist in Egypt under Mubarak.

The military has controlled Egypt and still does.

[sufrommich]

6. The Reuters article Common Dreams is linking to has no

mention of banning union meetings or strikes.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/13/us-egypt-idUSTRE70O3UW20110213?pageNumber=1

[Better Believe It]

7. Here's the Reuters news link.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/13/egypt-warning-idUSNWEB867320110213

[Better Believe It]

8. The Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions

"The Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions supports the demands of the people's revolution and calls for a general strike of Egyptian workers," reads a banner in Tahrir Square.

[Better Believe It]

9. How can I reduce the size of the union picture? It's much smaller at the source

[EFerrari]

14. You'd have to do it at photobucket or some place like that. n/t

[SidDithers]

16. Try not hotlinking...

save a smaller version in your photobucket account, and post that instead.

Hotlinking is really bad internet etiquette.

Sid

[Cleita]

17. You need to reduce the pixels. You can

do it in some photo software on your computer or you can do it in a Photobucket account.

[Starry Messenger]

11. They're not out of the woods yet. Now the real work starts.

It's still revolution time.

[kudzu22]

12. Meet the new boss

[Karmadillo]

13. Fortunately, our president has pledged to support the Egyptian people. The military

will not be allowed to succeed in its efforts to thwart the will of the people. Right?

[Cleita]

15. So the military clamp down begins no doubt under

orders from new head cheese Sulieman. I hope the Egyptian people call for him to step down too. These demagogues are only as powerful as the military who prop them up. Let's hope more military demand that elections be held sooner rather than later.

[Better Believe It]

20. Workers Protests spread across Egypt

Army asserts command as Egypt drifts back to work
By Andrew Hammond and Tom Perry
February 13, 2011

WORKERS PROTEST

Inspired by the success of the 18 days of popular protests which, with the blessing of the army, forced Mubarak to end his 30 years in power on Friday, workers across Egypt have begun to agitate for better deals.

Bank staff forced officials to make Monday an unscheduled bank holiday -- running into a public holiday already set for Tuesday. And employees elsewhere took to the streets.

There have been reports of protests, sit-ins and strikes at, in the main, state-owned institutions. These include the stock exchange, textile firms, media organizations, steel firms, the postal service and railways, the police and the health ministry.

The workers cite an array of grievances. What unites them is a new sense of being able to speak out in the post-Mubarak era.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/14/us-egypt-idUSTRE70O3UW20110214

[The Gunslinger]

21. "Meet the new boss"