We need to pay more attention to this. It is part of the growing white collar workers’ revolt.
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‘There is a different, more radical, mood in the country’
Leftist activist and engineer Hamdi Qenawi attended the Mansoura Tax Collectors’ meeting:
There is a different, more radical, mood in the country today. Fear (from the regime) is much less than what it used to be. The movement for change has brought down barriers. We need to unite the movement, and do not fragment it along sector-related demands. We need to help one another, and exchange experiences. In their fight to build their free union, the Tax Collectors need to open channels with the workers in Mahalla and the Railways. And as our colleague said, we cannot stand in the middle. We either stand with the killer or the victim, with the robber or the robbed.
‘We have to build our new union structures on the ground to be solid’
Gamal Oweida, Daqahliya Tax Collector:
We have to build our new union structures on the ground, to be solid. They (govt) will fight us hard. The (state-backed General) Federation (of Trade Unions) will not like any new independent union entities in the country… Are there others thinking of (building) independent unions? Yes, in Mahalla and other places. We have to build bridges with them, and with our colleagues in civil service.
