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.
فى تطور لأزمة موظفى الضرائب العقارية مع مصلحة الضرائب، التى مازالت معلقة، ولم تحسم حتى الآن، هدد عبدالغفار الروبى، رئيس رابطة مأمورى الضرائب، بتكرار إضراب موظفى الضرائب العقارية، قائلا: «نحن لسنا دعاة إضراب أو اعتصام، لكننا نترك فرصة لوزارة المالية حتى تحقق مطالبنا، وإذا لم يتم الاستجابة، فلا يلومنا أحد عند القيام بإضراب، وتكرار ما قام به موظفو الضرائب العقارية».
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.