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News Release International Transport Federation (ITF) March 31, 2011

The ITF has said that a reported plan to criminalise strikes in Egypt would be a betrayal
of the country’s recent struggle which overthrew the Mubarak government.
Supporting a call from the ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation) to the
Egyptian Prime Minister (see below), ITF general secretary David Cockroft said:
“Egyptian workers played a crucial role in the fight for democracy. To try and deny
them their basic democratic right to lawful industrial action would be a travesty of what
the people of Egypt fought for and won. This draft plan must be repudiated immediately
by the government.”