This may not seem like something relevant to Egypt, but it represents an important new direction in activism, as well as demonstrates the principle of imposing decency on corporations against their will by disrupting their operations.
Mental health nurses in California working for one of the biggest health companies in the US, Kaiser Permanente, threatened to strike from their jobs, not to ask for higher salaries or benefits, but to protest against how Kaiser’s pursuit of profit was negatively impacting the quality of care patients were receiving.
The nurse’s union was not calling for the strike to serve their own interests, but to serve the interests of patients. In order to maximize profits and cut expenses, Kaiser had reduced services, laid off staff, and had taken patient care decisions out of the hands of medical professionals. Quality of treatment had, obviously, declined as a result, so the California Nurses’ Association threatened to strike.
This is, essentially, a strike against the destructive impact of corporate domination on society, it is an example of system disruption to force a corporation to reverse its parasitic destructive policies.
And they won.