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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.

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.

Megawer is adopting militant rhetoric again. It's interesting to see how the strike wave since December 2006 have impacted the state-backed unions.

A new maneuver by Megawer to co-opt the tax collectors.

Solidarity needed with Kamal Abu Eita

Solidarity needed with Kamal Abu Eita.. Down with Megawer!

Megawer accusing the Free Union of "illegality"

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

Makram Labib, who was always the "weakest link" and most vacilating among the strike leaders, and who was expelled from the Higher Committee leadership before the announcement of the free union in december 2008, has now officially become the right hand man of Megawer.