Year: 2007

The Shura Council (Egypt’s Upper House) has summoned Labor Minister Aisha Abdel Hadi, Investments Minister Mahmoud Mohieedin and the head of the govt-sponsored General Federation of Trade Unions Hussein Megawer (who also heads the NDP’s parliamentary bloc) to discuss “the phenomenon of labor strikes and the fallout” next Thursday, reports Al-Masry Al-Youm.