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"What is now happening is a big shift in Egypt's strategy," Karen Curtis, Chief of the Freedom of Association Branch at the International Labor Organization (ILO), tells Egyptian Streets, "it was not possible before for any other trade union organizations to freely organize, yet the new amendment to the law is a big first step to empower workers." For most of Egypt's history, Egyptian trade unions were dominated by the state, with the Egyptian Trade Union Federation being the only…
