![]() ![]() ![]() in Miniya resumed their strike on Tuesday, after discovering that the company was backtracking from promises that ended the previous industrial action. Fouda and El-Attar said that initial steps had been taken towards the establishment of an independent, worker-controlled trade union body, and that formation of the trade union would begin in earnest after the transfer decrees have been rescinded and workers returned to their original posts.Īlso this week, 950 workers at Nile Cotton Co. “The problem is that they are insisting that we break up the sit-in before our demands can be responded to, but fail to set a date when this will happen.”įor his part Mosaad El-Fiqi, head of the company's trade union committee told daily El-Youm El-Sabaa that the trade union is “exerting its utmost efforts to return transferred workers to their original posts” and that “these matters take time.”įrustration with the official trade union system has prompted to workers to organize themselves. “The trade union representatives involved in the negotiations have stated explicitly that they're unable to do anything because the decision isn't in their hands it's in the hands of ministers,” Fouda explained. It denies workers their most basic rights.” The state-controlled trade union system proves its uselessness again and again. We're negotiating with members of the very trade union body which is meant to be representing us. “Workers aren't talking to company management. “From the start of the sit-in Fouad Hassan has threatened workers that they will be fired if they take part in it,” El-Attar said.Įl-Attar was critical of the negotiations themselves: Labor activist Mohamed El-Attar, one of the transferred workers, told Daily News Egypt that workers involved in the sit-in have received threats from members of the company's management. ![]() The workers are calling for a cancellation of the transfer orders issued against five workers following a protest held at the factory at the end of October, a return of the workers to their original posts and financial compensation for the transferred workers. More specifically, this study aims to identify the features, strategies, and trends of this media coverage and how Qatar responded through its public policy laws to refute and dispel these negative campaigns and misconceptions.Īs the first empirical research to identify Qatar’s sporting image in the western media representations, this study argues that some western media campaigns focused on labor issue and particularly what so called “labor rights violations” and overlooked Qatar's privileges of stability, economic growth and security for both labor and migrant workers alike.įurthermore, and relying on critical discourse analysis, this study contends that these media representations reflect western political and orientalist ideologies and not the objective realties of Qatar, its society and its culture.Īcknowledging that some labor conditions in the country didn’t conform with Qatar’s labor laws, this study highlights how Qatar responded to these (mis)representations through its public policy laws and changes in its labor laws.The 22 workers initiated the sit-in at the headquarters of the company's trade union committee in Mahalla on Saturday. This study seeks to critically identify and analyze some of the main British and American press representations of Qatar’s as a host of the 2022 World Cup. After Qatar announced the launch of mega infrastructure projects including roads, hotels and stadiums in its preparations for the tournament, some western newspapers and human rights organizations alike began to focus on labor rights and purported labor violations in the state of Qatar. In 2010, Qatar attracted the world's attention after winning the bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Qatar’s Image in The Western Press After the 2022 World Cup” My thesis “Politics, Policies and Sports: Location : Qatar - Doha Master in Public Policy/ Media ![]()
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