In 2007 Egypt witnessed an unprecedented level of labor unrest as workers from textile factories to public transport to tax collectors went on strike, mainly over low wages and poor working conditions.
There's a mistake in this report and the coverage of the Real Estate tax officers strike. The report is saying the strike was resumed yesterday. Actually the strike was never suspended. But what was resumed yesterday is the open-ended sit-in
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.