It seems there are reports of 3,000 tax officers demonstrating in Nasr City at the Ministry of Finance headquarters and of up to 55,000 possibly joining in a nation-wide strike. I’m too short on time to look into it further. Here’s Hossam’s post on 3arabawy. Also check out his article in the October edition of a-Rab (a publication out of UC Berkley) entitled “The road to Jerusalem passes through Mahalla”.
While the Mahalla strikes have served to stimulate many other labor actions over the last year or so, the spread to the public service sector could prove to be an altogether different thing.
