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The message of the fishermen's syndicate in El maadeiya “The looting and corruption of Egypt’s lakes must be stopped the fishermen need to have a share in the wealth and power”
El maadeiya village which is located on the shore of the Mediterranean in El Beheira government, which has suffered over the past years of oppression of power and the corruption of their representatives so that the village was plagued by dozens of projects that have contaminated the region thousands of acres were stolen and sold to people in power corrupt complicity representatives to maintain low prices.
Despite opposition from all of those policies in the past tense, but that the infidels were continuing to implement the bodies of the people and fishermen, and has not forgiven the fishermen are poor and in need and their fishing productive work, so, the hands of treacherous reached the waters of Edco Lake to deprive thousands of free fishing and after that they turned the farms seized by the business leaders and owners of influence of corrupt people who were members of the People's Assembly and different sovereign bodies.
Despite all this, and after the revolution of January 25 tried to fishermen in the village to form the union a new dispute Fishermen's Association and the Bar Association of the union official, but the deceitful they fail all attempts to fishermen honorable to defend their interests and protect their rights, and on 15/6/2011. The founding group of the union of fishing workers in Edco declared the establishment of an independent union after a three-hours meeting with representatives of the Land Center for Human Rights in which they talked about the importance of the trade union organization and the role of the union in defending the rights of fishers and their needs to ensure the security of fishing and decent living.
He called fishermen Egyptian authorities for enforcing the law on the remnants of the former regime who obstruct the progress of society and organization because the only guarantee to the repeated safe, strong and guarded is the sharing of wealth and power with the producers of the workers and peasants, fishermen and stop the policy of trafficking about their rights and stop the policy of treachery and the threat of slavery and oppression.
At the end of the meeting, the small-scale fishermen participants confirmed that the road to an independent union and the protection of the interests of small fishermen and to ensure the rights of fishing is the hope of security is to achieve the future of a more just and humane to all producers in our country.