INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF
WASTE PICKERS
WASTE PICKERS
The International Alliance of Waste Pickers is a union of waste picker organizations representing more than 460,000 workers across 34 countries
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The organizations listed in this WAW database were the result of the effort to merge in one place multiple waste picker related organizations data bases in 2014. Visit the current list of affiliates to the International Alliance of Waste Pickers.
Workers’ Union Cleaning and Beauty and Protecting the Environment
Cairo, Egypt
Primary information
- Number of members
- 4,500
- Type of members
- Members are waste pickers
- Occupation of members
- Waste collectors
- Type of Organization
- Trade union
- Organizational Reach
- Local
- Workplace of members
- Street
- Organization Structure
- Covering six areas in Cairo. There are three members in each area responsible for recruiting members.Each member must pay dues of about US $2/month. There are currently +/- 4500 union members. Most of them are people who collect waste, but there are a few members from the workshops. The union is still waiting to get more members before they elect leadership.
- Women composition
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Complementary Information
- Information source
- WORD 26/6/2013, Africa 2013