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Workers of the co. Alexandria for Tires "Pirelli" on strike

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Either we got their rights, or fire us like them

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Alexandria, M. Ramleh In front of Italian consulate

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We're coming to make a sit-in in front of the consulate

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The italian company refused to pay our last month salary

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and fired 5 from our union committee

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cause they're demanding workers rights involving the benefits and the bonuses

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We're striking since 10/06

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and at the beginning of the strike

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there were a sit-in on 29/05

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And they cut the supplies in the factory

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So the workers went out to join the ones standing in front of administration

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He filed a case against the unionists and workers

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accusing them of the loses of 52 million pounds

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despite it was the administration who cut the supplies

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The result is that we have now 1200 families with no income

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because of the administration arrogance

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We encourage the investment in Egypt

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but we refuse this one that goes against law

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and must respect laws and workers

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in order to make the business walk

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We're demanding to abolish this decisions

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of firing the unionists at this time

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leaving 1200 families without incomes

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Alexandrian Co. for tires "Pirelli"

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We go on with our strike and sit-in

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till all our demands are met

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and specially our last one, that came after 5 workers were fired out

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3 from the union committee and 2 colleagues

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and this was unjust

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and this was illegal and void

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and we hope that they will get they're rights going back to work

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But we say something to the egyptian direction

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and to the one in Italy

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that workers will never let they're 5 colleagues fired

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and we won't talk to the direction and won't get anything

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unless our colleagues come back to work in first place

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and then we're gonna start talking about our rights and everything

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cause we're all together!

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We're all together in one hand!

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Egyptian law says that 10% from the benefits

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have to go to the workers

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Last year, company beenfit's were 130 million pounds

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so workers should get 13 million pounds

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we only got 9 million

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there are 4 millions nobody knows where they are

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Is the multinational Pirelli against the human ethics?

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We are expecting from the investor

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to be an investor, nor a colonizer

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The investor agreed with the old corrupted government

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Atef Ebeid's one,

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that the exports are send by factory price

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any company in the world should support the benefits to their workers

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We're notÉ. we export around 70% of our production

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and workers are getting nothing at all

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cause the production is being exported with the factory price

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I want to send a message to the new president

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to be with us and to help us

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cause we're the core of the whole nation

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We ask to the European Unions the put pressure

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to bring egyptian worker's rights

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cause we're getting no rights from the investor

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cause he takes us like slaves on the dark planet

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we don't know why cause we do effort

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The whole world developed but us...

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our colleagues in Europe are at the highest level of living

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We're not asking thatÉ

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We only want our rights and the application of law

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Any company in the world is sustained by the people who rises up

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nobody else

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how come an investor or an engineer will rise it up?

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It's impossible

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It's all about workers and technicians

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Daily workers, that lost their rights, nobody is talking about them...

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No director or engineer at all...

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I come every day, leaving my home and kids

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staying here

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all night long

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coming back home to sleep the whole day

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being sick to reach the end of the month and find the engineer

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writting sanctions to my salary

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and me asking him about this penalty

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and he replies me "Is like that"

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And you go the the director and see 100% penalties

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120% penalties

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and he's taking all this sanctions from the workers

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to give it to the directors who are sitting on the AC without feeling it

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we're dying downstairs!

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The hot is eating us! Our brains are not working any more!

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We don't see our kids!

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We're not able to be with them!

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If we're not working, we're sleeping or we're sick

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laying on the bed

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When I fall down, He tells me "you make yourself sick"

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And instead of giving me a "sickness" he gaves me a "penalty"É

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I beg him to give me a sick's day-off

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and I have to negotiate a salary-discount with him

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You see this people treating us like if we were their slaves

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This people didn't feel the revolution...

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When we're gonna feel it?

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We're on strike and we're gonna continue

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our voice increased with the demonstrations outside

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in front of the italian consulate

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and we're gonna keep going

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our voice went and it will stay back for years

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but it's unacceptable to do this to us again

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we have rights and we will take them

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and who wants to invest in Egypt is wellcome...

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but must respect egyptian workers's rights

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if we must strike for 2, 3 monthsÉ We have no problem

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but the result will come

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We're all together! We're all one hand!

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Alexandria - June 2012