The undersigned express their full solidarity with the demands of the workers and employees of the Drinking Water and Sanitation Company in "Cairo, Giza, Sharqia, Beni Suef, and Minya" governorates, where they held protest vigils. These demands are nothing more than the essential rights of the workers that the State itself has affirmed, including the implementation of the minimum wage, the disbursement of delayed bonuses/raises (allowances) since 2016, and the provision of fixed term contracts for temporary workers.

The signatories also express their grave concern regarding the difficult living conditions of the company's employees caused by the significant imbalance between the high cost of living on one hand and the erosion of the value of their wages on the other hand, which is only compounded by the withholding of their entitlements.

The situation has deteriorated to the point where the company refuses to implement enforceable judicial rulings obtained by some workers for the disbursement of their delayed allowances, even though this should have been automatic and should have never required litigation. 

The signatories of this statement call upon the Ministry of Housing to immediately look into the demands of the company's workers. They also call upon the Ministry of Labour to examine the company's compliance with mandatory minimum wage requirements.

Signatories:

Firstly: Political Parties

• The Egyptian Socialist Party

• Revolutionary Socialists Movement

• Popular Socialist Alliance Party

• Bread and Freedom Party (Under Establishment)

• Tayar El Amal (Hope Current) Party (Under Establishment)

Secondly: Trade Union Entities

• The Independent Trade Union Committee of Workers at Telecom Egypt (WE)

• The Trade Union Committee of Workers at Al-Wafd Newspaper

• The Trade Union Committee for Egyptian Tax Authority Workers. 

Thirdly: Human Rights Entities

• The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR)

• The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF)

• The Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR)

• Center for Trade Union and Workers' Services (CTUWS)

• Land Center for Human Rights

• El Nadeem Center