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.