Hisham Abdel Kerim, the driver of a servis, or shared taxi, says it is his father’s plight as an impoverished elderly man with no source of income that is motivating him to lead efforts to start an independent trade union for Egyptian transport workers.
“My father worked for 45 years as a driver. But when he got old, he had no pension and had to sell his car and ask his children for help in order to be able to eat,” says Mr Abdel Kerim who drives his own Peugeot plying the route between the Delta town of Tanta and Alexandria on the Mediterranean coast.
There is already a trade union for transport workers, inherited from the days of the regime of Hosni Mubarak, the president toppled by a popular uprising earlier this year.
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