Strike At The AUC New Campus

As it has become the habit across the country , there is a new strike somewhere and this time time , it is at the AUC new Campus.
The angry employees this time are the workers at the AUC new campus and they are angry after the failure of their negotiation with university’s administration for weeks on the promised salaries increase , as a result the workers started their strike today.
According to what I understand the matter went from bad to worse when the AUC reduced their salary from LE 650 to LE 450 , the excuse was that the administration dedicated a pension ,a meal and also a transportation means. Honestly what LE 450 or 650 salary can do in Egypt for God sake !!??
Anyhow here are photos from the strike held on Wednesday thanks to the wonderful Gigi Ibrahim who covered for the past 48 hours two strikes and really needs to take a rest.

Gigi also recorded in video few moments of the strike.

Speaking with the HR representative !!??

Brian McDougal,the Vice President of Planning and Administration speaks with workers , tomorrow there will be a new round of negotiations

Also the wonderful Salma covered the strike since the first moment. Those two wonderful young ladies brought us to the scene with their updated tweets. Here is Gigi’s twitter account and Salama’s twitter account.
Here is a CNN iReport about the strike.
Hopefully tomorrow the AUC administration will understand how bad this is to its image and act in the proper way and respect the demands of the workers .
Already did not the supreme administrative court says that the minimum wage in Egypt should be LE 1200 last April !!?? Also if these were the salaries of the workers or the janitors to be accurate in AUC , what are the wages of their co-workers in Egyptian universities ??

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