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In the era of the freedom of syndicates and democracy There is no shyness left
In a new and dangerous precedent of its kind in the history of Egypt and the world, the appliers’ syndicate withheld the monthly pensions from its eligible members, and stopped paying them to any member who has reached seventy years old or more, on the grounds that he has benefited from the pension for ten years and did not die yet!!
Some retired members of the appliers’ syndicate have submitted their complaints to the Land Center for Human Rights. In their complaints the members said that they were wronged by the resent decision of the board of the appliers’ syndicate which was issued unanimously !!
The strange thing is that the board has decided during that same session, that any member who has benefited, for ten years or more, from the pension paid by the syndicate, and who stopped receiving the syndicate’s pension, as a result of the expiry of the ten years period, must continue to pay the annual membership subscription regularly, in order to enjoy all the rights, privileges, and union services stipulated in the regulations and internal laws of the syndicate, which the syndicate offers to its members and their families, and in order for the family of the member to be eligible to funeral expenses and an amount of 750 pounds in compensation, upon the death of the member!!
The LCHR presents the complaints of the members to the board of the appliers’ syndicate demanding that it cancels its previous decision in respect of all the laws and conventions, and in order to protect the rights of old people who have spared no effort to develop the conditions of our country, and to ensure the rights of citizens to social security and safe and decent living.
The LCHR calls upon the civil society institutions to unite in solidarity with the members of the appliers’ syndicate, in order to cancel the resent decision of the board of the syndicate and to improve the syndicate services which the syndicate should offer to its members, in order to ensure their rights to social solidarity and a decent living.
For more information please contact the Center.