Kamal Abu Eita’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Egyptian labor activist
Is Activist
Trade unionist
From Egypt
Type Activism
Gender male
Birth

1 March 1953

Age 67 years

Kamal Abu-Eita (also spelled Abu ‘Ayta; Arabic: كمال أبو عيطة‎‎ ), is a long-time Egyptian labor activist. He also formerly served as the Minister of Manpower and Immigration (Egypt), until being replaced by Nahed Ashri in March 2014.

Pre-January 25 Revolution

As a long-time activist, he organized labor movements and led the challenge against the state-affiliated Egyptian Trade Union Federation. In 2007, he led major strikes and sit-ins outside the Ministry of Manpower – the institution he would lead six years later.

He was active in supporting the January 25th revolution.

For several years he was a member of the outlawed Nasserist Dignity Party. He represented the party as an MP after being elected in 2011, having run as a member of the FJP-affiliated Democratic Alliance for Egypt.

Post-January 25

He gained notoriety for helping to establish the Real Estate Tax Authority Independent General Union in 2009 – the country’s first independent trade union. The move was aggressively rejected by the state-tied Egyptian Trade Union Federation.

Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions (EFITU)

While a senior leader of the EFITU, the CTUWS decided to withdraw from the union. By October 2011 the CTUWS and 148 other unions established the EDLC. In the 2014, the EDLC and EFITU are estimated to represent nearly two million Egyptian workers.

Minister of Manpower

Abu-Eita was originally appointed Minister of Manpower during the 2012 Morsi Cabinet. His appointment was aggressively rejected by the ETUF, viewing him as animus towards the group.

Upon being nominated to the ministry, he announced that his primary objective as minister would be promoting the long-sought minimum wage law. The law would raise public sector salaries from a minimum of 700LE to LE1,200 per month.

Only month after being appointed Minister, security forces crushed a strike at the Suez Steel Company. Abu Eita reportedly did not comment on the issue. Members of the EFITU executive committee would later complain about Abu Eita’s committing the union to abandoning “the strike weapon” at times, without consultation. In this way, he was seen as instrumentalizing the independent union rather than representing its interests.

Political Views

Responding to reports that he advocated the teaching of capitalism, Abu-Eita said “I am a Nasserist and I do not support capitalism.”

Abu-Eita was co-founder of the Nasserist Dignity Party.

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