As a long-time activist, he organized labor movements and led the challenge against the state-affiliated Egyptian Trade Union Federation.

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.

Upon being nominated to the ministry, he announced that his primary objective as minister would be promoting the long-sought minimum wage law.

[1] Only month after being appointed Minister, security forces crushed a strike at the Suez Steel Company.

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.