Today we will publish the report “Professional Unions and 18 Years of struggle with Law 100,” which is issued within the series “Thirty Years of the Justice System Archive.”

The report will be available for download on the Memory and Knowledge Studies website, and includes two research papers. The first was prepared by Hisham Fouad, and deals with the political and social context of the authority’s interference in the affairs of professional unions, before and under Law 100 of 1993, and until its implementation came to an end after a legal battle that ended in 2011.

The second paper, prepared by Zainab Khair, also focuses on the legal perspective, as legislative texts, and a path through which the authorities’ interference in the affairs of professional unions increased. The paper also focuses on ways to legally challenge that path.

The report is the third in a series, following two earlier reports “Trial of the Privatization Path: A Critical Reading from the Economic and Legal Points of View” and “Erasing the Effects of Agrarian Reform and Social Contempt for Agricultural Tenants.” It comes in light of a sudden movement in professional unions, which began in the first quarter of last year, the climax of which was the elections of the Journalists Syndicate in March 2023, which will witness its sixth general assembly conference in the coming weeks. We are also witnessing at present elections at the Dental Syndicate. We hope that the report will provide insight and useful reading of previous battles for the independence and democracy of unions and that the current momentum would see in it an attempt to critically read and analyze the situation of professional unions over the past ten years.