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el-Badeel reports: The head of the state-controlled trade union federation (EFTU), Hussein Megawer, has announced that he would agree to let the free union of the real estate tax collectors join the federation. Union leaders refused this offer, saying they will not enter the official union structure since it is controlled by the ruling party NDP, stressing that they have the right to organize independently according to the Egyptian constitution and international treaties signed by Egypt.

500 workers at the Hussein University Hospital on strike over late due bonuses.

The head of the state-backed Egyptian Federation of Trade Unions, Hussein Megawer of the NDP, speaking about disagreements with Labor Minister Aisha..

Megawer striking back with the 24th General Union, devoted solely to the tax collectors, so as to withdraw the carpet from beneath Abu Eita and the Free Union. The new state-backed union include at least two of the former strike leaders that Megawer managed to coopt: Makram Labib and Ezzat Shedid. The two had always demonstrated the most compromising attitude throughout the Hussein Hegazi sit-in and later.

It's not true Mahalla workers showed up. It was NGO activist Hamdi Hussein from Afaq Socialist Center. The strike leaders refused to go.

The CP, Hamdi Hussein of Afaq, and some representatives from Ghazl Shebeen and Tanta Flax met ElBaradei.

Hussein Megawer is trying to co-opt the Tax Collectors' Free Union

The state backed unions are mobilizing, lest they lose the ground for free unions