Billionaire Hisham Talaat Mustafa, a Gamal Mubarak associate and construction tycoon, was sentenced to death, together with a former State Security officer, for murdering Lebanese singer Suzan Tamim… The stock market is in turmoil…
Month: May 2009
The Free Union is a reality the govt cannot ignore
Thirty days have passed since the Union of Real Estate Tax Authority employees handed in their papers to the Labor Ministry. According to Egyptian labor law, if the Ministry had any reservations or reasons for rejecting the union they should have announced it during that period of time… which hasn’t happened.
This means, with local and international recognition secured, the Labor Ministry has no other choice but to deal with the free union activists as the legitimate representatives of the 55,000 Real Estate Tax Collectors.
Pigs attack Minya strikers
Security clashed today with the Nile Co. textile strikers in El-Minya, when the latter tried to demonstrate outside their factory. Two workers were injured.