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"With our souls and blood of children income is the most important"
Egyptian workers … Victims of random capitalism

The hardships that confronted millions of borrowers who wanted to acquire houses and real estate mortgage system in the United States in 2007 leads to the aggravation of a financial crisis which emerged in mid-September 2008, which make the U.S. economy shaked strongly, which in turn affected the markets and the European and global economies as a whole and as a result it broke down many of the major financial institutions in America and the world, hundreds of billions of dollars injected into the global capital markets failed to end the mortgage crisis that has evolved to a global financial crisis, many officials without escaping their fears say that there will be overthrow of global economic systems.
And the financial crisis came out of the scope of the U.S. economy, spreading in Europe and the rest of the world because of the dominance of a market economy, and the vital relation between financial institutions and the emergence of the so-called general culture of greed which have affected the productive and economic sectors, as well as that the United States is a key trading partner in the global economy , which represents that the U.S. GDP is 27.5% of the global GDP, the U.S. exports represent about 10%, U.S. imports about 15%, and the volume of foreign investments about 10% of the global total.
The world had lost more than $ 30 trillion of the value of financial assets in 2008 only because of this crisis and this amount is sufficient to eliminate poverty in developing countries in the world within ten years, the latest estimate of the losses of European banks in the financial crisis, the European Central Bank said that: The banks in the euro area, which includes 16 European countries may be exposed to lose up to an additional $ 283 billion by the end of 2010, the bank said that this crisis could cost European banks 649 billion dollars between 2007 and 2010 because of write-off bad debts, in addition to a deep recession after the increasing rate of unemployment in the euro zone to 8.2% in January 2010, the highest level since September 2006, and Asia were severely damaged as incurred huge losses in its capital and it was amounted about $ 9.6 trillion of the total loss for the world.
What made it worse is the consequences of this crisis on developing countries of the deterioration of their economies and the loss of more than 50 million workers to their jobs, including about four million workers in the Arab world, and it is estimated that Gulf companies alone dispensed since September 2008 until February 2009, more than 45 thousand employees, and this number is expected to rise to 120 thousand by the end of this year, where the International Labor Organization predicted that the number of unemployed in the world will be up to 198 million people, warning that the number will be increasing to 230 million if this crisis continues This global financial crisis has thrown a negative impact on the labor market in Egypt as the government and businessmen is trying to overload the price of this crisis on workers, especially when many companies began laying off thousands of workers, and other companies reduced wages, and many other measures have been taken to bear the Egyptian working class - burden of the crisis hungry, where the Egyptian labor market lost nearly 347 thousand jobs, at least during the first six months following the global financial crisis directly with the economic growth rate decreased from 7.2% to 4.2%. A wave of anger has been mounted by Egyptian workers in the form of sit-ins, strikes and demonstrations included throughout the country due to the influence of Bitter Harvest and killing of the globalization of neo-liberal policies are made through the U.S. and Western interests agendas applied by the Egyptian government for the lowest segment which is the business segment of society that do not exceed 3% of the total population Egypt, and began - the Egyptian government - using all their weapons against the security of workers who came out expressing their rejection of such political and economic transformation that led to the globalization of savage capitalism and carried the state treasury the burden of providing 900 million pounds to the Ministry of the Interior spent per year on the swarms of security to confront and suppress the strikes of workers.
In spite of the effects of the economic crisis on all sectors and labor rights in Egypt, but the negative effects of the sector of textile workers was most severe where the displacement of tens of thousands of workers and the denial of opportunities for decent work after the closure of dozens of factories in the industrial zones as in the new company, "Dubie" Clothes ready, and the demobilization and the expulsion of hundreds of workers from those dozen companies, as happened with the "Flou Star & Ismailia" ready-made clothes in addition to the deteriorating conditions of the rights to equal pay and freedom of workers in the association of textile companies of business and led to the increasing needs of workers in this sector for more than 100 protest during the 2009 in defiance of the working conditions of low pay just freedom of association and abuse by management and the role of labor protests in ensuring the rights of workers in job opportunities for decent and dignified life.
And returning to the degradation of human workers in this sector, which absorbs about one million workers in 4000 factory around business sector and private production of yarn and fabric as well as a lot of competition in the global and local markets in this area after the advancement of the textile industry in India, Turkey, Tunisia, Pakistan and China.
In this context, the Land Center for Human Rights hold a Colloquium, which discusses by research and analysis, the rights of workers lost under the policies of free market economy and the resulting of several problems all at the global, regional and local levels, most recently the global financial crisis and the ensuing economic crisis adversely affected the economic and social rights of workers especially textile workers, the workshop aimed to identify the effects of global financial crisis on the rights of workers in Egypt, especially the textile sector in the public and private sectors. In terms of wage levels for workers in the industry. And the conditions under which textile workers, garment, in terms of working hours and the lack of elements of industrial safety, which is extremely dangerous. With regard to private sector workers, they add to the suffering by the absence of trade union organization, where private sector factories impose many constraints to prevent the formation of trade unions. And this is through the display of visions of many experts, researchers, workers and their representatives in the various sectors in order to ensure their rights to decent jobs and decent life. This and we are confident that your presence will enrich the meeting.
Proposed agenda of Earth Center seminar "With our souls and blood of children income is the most important"
Egyptian workers ..
Victims of random capitalism
And held on 18/2/2010 at the center of the Earth in Cairo
Registration ................................................ .............................. 9.30-10
The first meeting ............................................... ........................... 10-12
Axis I:
* The global economic crisis .. Examination of the principles of free market economy and its repercussions on the rights of workers
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Prof.Dr / Ahmed Al-Sayed al-Najjar
Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies
Chairman of the session
Abdel-Ghaffar shoker Vice-President of Arab Research Center
The second session ............................................... ............................. 12-2
Second Axis:
* The workers and the global economic crisis in Egypt ........................... Saber Barakat
Representative of the Coordinating
Committee of Rights and Freedoms
Chairman Dr. Abeer Badran Lecturer in Business Administration - Ain Shams University
Break, tea ............................................... ........................ 2-2.15
The third session ................................................ .................... 2.15- 3.30
Axis III:
* Model of the textile workers union movements struggling .............. Dr / Fatma Ramadan Researcher Center for Socialist Studies
Chairman Hassan Shami President of the Egyptian Society for Scientific and Technological Development
Rest and food ..................................................................... 3.30-4
The fourth session.............................................. ........................ 4-5.30
Fourth Axis:
* Program of Action and the national consensus to defend the rights of workers and the fulfillment of the Egyptian ..........................
Wafaa El-masry Lawyer and human rights activist
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