CAIRO — The civil servants’ uprising against the Civil Service Law has yet to subside. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued this law on March 2 with the aim to replace the employees in the state institutions.
On Sept. 12, the opposition to this law by a number of civil servants and representatives of independent trade unions escalated. The coordination committee of Tadamon (Solidarity) — a movement that includes a number of independent trade unions objecting the law — had announced the expected participation of large numbers of protesters, but the security forces thwarted the protest. Tadamon had issued a statement warning that this might happen 48 hours before the protest.