Links: Workers' and Trade Union Involvement in Egyptian Uprising

While the exciting events in Egypt make headline news, the mainstream media do not tell us much about workers' and trade union involvement. So I have compiled this selection of links:

• Up-to-the-minute workers' movement news and reports about Egypt on LabourStart website
• Center for Trade Union and Workers' Services (the site appears in Arabic; to see the English version, click the drop-down menu, top left)
• February 8: the day for Egyptian workers
• Article by TUC International Officer, Owen Tudor: New Egyptian Trade Unions Play Their Part
• Press release announcing new trade union federation in Egypt
• Founding declaration of new trade union federation
• ITUC Supports General Strike Call and Welcomes New Independent Trade Union Federation (International Trade Union Confederation)
• Egypt's workers strike for democracy and rights, from the AFL-CIO (US equivalent of the TUC) website
• This 2009 survey of violations of trade union rights by the ITUCdetails the close relationship between the official unions and the regime, and the legal curtailing of the right to independent, effective trade unionism
• Egyptian workers start to move, from Workers' Liberty website
• Video: Striking Egyptian Workers Fuel the Uprising After 10 Years of Labor Organizing