The (Free) Union of Real Estate Tax Authority Employees has called for national protests today in all Real Estate Tax Authority Directorates and Offices in every single province in Egypt, and will be mobilizing a protest 10 am in front of the Real Estate Tax Authority HQ in Mounira (by Saad Zaghloul’s mausoleum), to denounce the betrayal of the agreement struck between the free union leaders and the Finance Minister last Thursday. The Cairo protest will be accompanied by sit-ins in all directorates outside the capital.
The free union activists had managed to force the Finance Ministry into officially accepting the proposed retirement fund, by which each property tax collector was to receive 110 month-pay. However yesterday the Finance Minister U-turned and decided to “re-adjust” his ministerial decree, commissioning the project to the corrupt, state-backed General Union of Bank, Insurance and Financial Workers, which has been smashed to pieces, with more than 35,000 (out of 55,000) property tax collectors deserting its ranks to join the free union.
