The role of general trade union of hotels and tourism workers in supporting hotels employees in the light of 2011 Egyptian revolution

الملخص EN

This paper explores the efforts of general trade union of hotels and tourism workers (GTUHTW) in the light of 2011 Egyptian revolution.

Mixed methods are used to collect the data of this research.

Interviews were conducted with tlie director of the GTUHTW, a mixed type questionnaire was conducted with the managers of human resource departments.

The sample consists of 73 hotels, all of these hotels are four and five star hotels.

There are three groups of the policies adopted by the hotels in response to the 2011 Egyptian revolution as follows: policies adopted by ail of the sample (recruitment freeze, probationary staff not transferred to full time contracts, and non-renewal of temporary contracts), policies adopted by some of hotels in the sample (compulsory redundancy, unpaid holiday, reduced training, and forgo bonus pay), and policies that didn’t adopted by all of hotels in the sample (pay freeze, pay cut - management, and pay cut -other staff).

There is no significance to the collective agreements as the base of these adopted policies.

All hotels of the sample strongly disagree or disagree that the General Trade Union of Hotels and Tourism Workers and the Egyptian govenmient support the employees in response to the 2011 Egyptian revolution.