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Illegitimate Privatization in Egypt

Posted on 15/10/201125/12/2016 by markbtaylor

Re-nationalization or the reversal of illegitimate privatizations? LoR Contributor Yasmine Gado reports from Cairo on the legal battles resulting from Mubarak-era liberalization policies. Several weeks ago on 21 September, Cairo’s Administrative Court issued a landmark decision and “re-nationalized” three companies, Shebin El-Kom Textile Company, the Tanta Company for Linen and Derivatives and the Steam Boilers…

Egyptian Unions Go to Court

Posted on 07/06/201110/06/2011 by markbtaylor

The struggle over trade union legitimacy in Egypt is moving into the Courts. An Egyptian Administrative Court announced over the weekend that it will hear arguments on 14 June in a move to dissolve the Egyptian Trade Union Federation, the state-controlled trade union which dominates public sector union membership in the country. The action has…