At last some good news thank God , after a wave of a bad ,very bad news for the last two weeks
First of all I will start with the less good news , it is the biggest good news but it is not bad
Ibrahim Eissa is going to stand in front of a normal court not the military court despite the official announcement , according to judicial resources yesterday he was going to stand in front of a a normal court which accepts appeal , well I believe they re-thought the step that had taken before and saw it was so stupid , it drew a lot of criticism from abroad and I am afraid they care only from abroad , and by they I mean the regime , already they received one hell of an objection letter from the American administration that made the regime very angry to attack it in its official newspapers in the front page
The second great good news , the real good news is that the Workers of Malha factory won and the government will fulfill all their simple demands they are asking after one hell of a week
This is a great news ,some will say that this way people will shut up ,well this is just a start ,first of all let's analysis why the Egyptian government had to fulfill their demands all of it in the end
- First of all this is not the first time the workers demand such demands ,in fact that was the last single they had reached , they had no other alternative except Strike,they won't accept any middle solutions
- The huge number made impossible to the regime to use its dirty methods from using the police and violence to crack down the strike by force as they are facing not 100 workers but more than 20,000 with their wives and children occupying the factory in a desperate move in the holy month of Ramadan , the month of mercy
- They were afraid also to use violence for fear the local and international criticism , they were indicators that they may use violence and police to crack down the strike whether from the Police siege around the factory Perimeter or the fact that orders came to hospitals in Mahla to be in alert situation still they feared to drew criticism and anger,on the international level that would remind people with the Sudanese refugees camp crack down in new years eve at 2005 not to mention it would come at parallel time with the Burma /Myanmar 's protests ,on the local level that is the month of Ramadan and people are having enough from the regime whether from the high prices or from fear on the semi press freedom we have , it is a killing timing
This can be the start as a successful strike ,it can be repeated in other factories and I am sure other workers in factories like Kafr El-Dowar will think in the same way
The main problem we got here is that the administration of the factory is isolated from the workers taking all the profits forgetting the rights of those workers who are the main success factor in the factory , without them the administration will have a factory with machines only , with no products at the end , here I am speaking about business administration perspective , my field of study ,from a managerial point of view , you must create a suitable environment for your employees in your work whether blue collars or white collars in order to reach to a trade off , you want your product or service and they will produce it for you ,you can't ask them to work as horses or animals only for minimum charges and expect a better product logically especially when your product or service is selling well enough and pumping cash to your wallet ,creating better environment to your employees will also help you to have a better image in the public mind , I remember when there was a news about a strike in the Dahkla Iron and Steel factory owned by NDP tycoon Ahmed Ezz his PR made a huge public campaign with ads in TV till they are aired in prime time across the various networks about how great the work environment in his factories , of course I am speaking about a perfect world ,things are not like this in Egypt
Anyhow here are photos from the strike and here is an interesting essay from AP "Thanks to Arabawy"
Good news for sure. What happened in the Mahala factory should be looked at as a good template for rising against the crazy system in Egypt. Why I say that? For one thing the motivation and objectives of those workers are clear, they are not asking for removal of this leader or that (as if there is one with a magic wand), they are asking for their basic rights they for sure embarrass the responsible minister to the core. Mubarak cannot claim outside ‘evil doers’ are motivating those people. I am sure there are millions of workers with similar problems, there are millions Egyptian with health related problems embarrassing the health minister, there are millions of Egyptians with education related issues, justice issues,etc. in the end Mubarak (and the like of him) will loose all their protective veils and incompetence, and evil components of the system at large will look bare to the world. When the pyramid foundation of lies fall, then, hope for a solution may look feasible and Egyptiana can look for a new political foundation with God’s help.
ReplyDelete@Snoby, our Egyptian people do not ask a lot they may give up any demands in Political reform if there is a welfare in the country just like the case of Gulf state , no democracies but people are living in a better standard of life , call it whatever you want , stupidity , negativity ,this is our people accepts with the smallest thing , the problem they do not ask much , they do not ask for their full right but their minimum needs only .
ReplyDeleteTHere are many workers as you said and many of them are thinking to following the Mahla workers steps
it will be a new hope if they do it and succeed
it will bring hope and it will make people dare enough to stand for their rights insh Allah
We are on the same wave length, let me clarify: Most of the Arab leaders, not the rich gulf states where they have more money than peoples, hide their incompetence leadership by talking and voicing opinions to the media mostly about issues that everyone understand are outside their direct domain of accountabilities, like bringing justice to the Palestinians, the media cover Mubaraks critical remarks to Rice (US Secretary of state), Assad says this and that , of course nothing does or will happen and the finger points to the US and Israel. The cameras flash their pictures here and there. While in fact the US communicate with them the boundaries that they can voice their objections and critical remarks. Domestic issues on the other hand, like jobs, education, health, food, transportation ..etc (things that matter most for the average citizen and as you said are provided easily in the gulf states) are beneath them, this minister and that minister’s responsibility and of course they don’t provide them because of lack of planning and money. Does the country collect fair taxes from Egyptian businessmen like they do with basic employees? I doubt it. In the west one can easily go to jail if proved cheating on taxes (no matter what is your status). In Egypt money come and leave in very dubious ways and of course little is left to cover citizens basic need, until the US “generous help!!” come. And the story repeat itself year, after year, until the state of human oppression reach the level like Maynmar (Burma).
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