Labor protests, with a variety of causes, were staged outside the cabinet building on Wednesday, the first working day of Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb’s new government.
Temporary journalists of Al-Ahram and Al-Akhbar newspapers demanded permanent contracts as they have worked there for more than three years, they claimed.
Drivers of chilled food transportation trucks demanded a six-month visa, contending that their counterparts from Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia enter Egypt without a visa.
Workers of the Mother and Child Education Project that is carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation in rural areas demanded permanent contracts, minimum wages and health insurance.
Residents of the Ras al-Sawda district in Alexandria demonstrated against thugs forcibly occupying eight acres there and demanded that the government remove them.
Holders of MAs and PhDs protested the decision of the education minister to appoint them as teachers and administrators in his ministry.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
