The number of Real Estate Tax Collectors, who have endorsed the call for establishing Egypt’s first independent trade union in half a century, has exceeded 22,000…

The number of Real Estate Tax Collectors, who have endorsed the call for establishing Egypt’s first independent trade union in half a century, has exceeded 21,000…

Click on the poster below to download the (Arabic) report on industrial action during the first three weeks of September, put together by the Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch…

A report on the first two weeks of October is available here…

The number of Real Estate Tax Collectors, who have endorsed the call for establishing Egypt’s first independent trade union in half a century, has exceeded 20,000…

More solidarity with the Egyptian Free Union Activists…
Dear Tax Collectors Friends,
We, as Limter-İş Union — that represents 40,000 workers and is affiliated to DİSK (Confederation of Revolutionary Workers’ Unions) — heard about your resistance.
We salute you on behalf of the shipyard workers, a part of our whole working class.
Your resistance is our resistance!
Cem Dinç,
General Secretary [...]

Message from Belfast, in support of the Egyptian Real Estate Tax Collectors…
Can I express my union solidarity with your struggle.. I have been briefed by Hossam at a meeting in Belfast, Ireland in our union Headquarters and I am in admiration of your campaign for improving working conditions and for union freedom.
I have committed to [...]

Message from London….
Solidarity and fraternal greetings to the Independent General Union of Real Estate Tax Agency Workers in your inspiring fight to defend and improve your wages and conditions and to establish free, independent and democratic trade unions.
All our experience as working people, around the world, is that the surest guarantee of progress and fair [...]

Message from Belfast…
The University of Ulster Jordanstown Students’ Union fully supports the Egyptian Property Tax Collectors in their fight to establish independent trade unions in Egypt.
Solidarity,
Gerry Carroll, VP of Ulster Jordanstown S.U.

The General Secretary of the British National Union of Journalists has sent a letter of solidarity to the Egyptian Real Estate Tax Collectors who are building the country’s first independent trade union in half a century…
Dear sisters and brothers,
I am writing to wish you success and offer solidarity on the launch of your new free [...]

Sarah Carr reports…
Lobby group Doctors Without Rights (DWR) said at a protest Friday that the board of the Doctors’ Syndicate has failed to implement resolutions voted on by the Syndicate’s general assembly in May.
Members of DWR demonstrated on the steps of the Syndicate and distributed an open letter addressed to Syndicate head Dr Hamdy El-Sayyed [...]

I uploaded more pix I took of the Free Union Activists to this flickr set…

Portraits of Daqahliya civil servants involved in building the General Union of Real Estate Tax Collectors, taken during their Saturday meeting, in downtown Cairo…

Portraits of Upper Egyptian civil servants involved in building the General Union of Real Estate Tax Collectors, taken during their Saturday meeting, in downtown Cairo…

Though they couldn’t make it to the meeting, the Beheira Real Estate Tax Collectors held a “phone conference” with their colleagues in Cairo. They phoned Kamal Abu Eita, who held his mobile phone close to a mike. Surprisingly, this “phone conference” worked (most of the phone conference I witnessed or took part in, with much [...]

The Real Estate Tax Collectors‘ leaders held a meeting yesterday that lasted for more than six hours, in downtown Cairo, to consult and report on the latest in their fight to build their free union…