Two presidents have been disposed since the 2011 uprising, both largely the result of mobilization efforts from the country's labor movement. Though Egypt's current economic crisis is a main focus of international attention, President Morsi and the ruling regime's strategies to deadlock worker's reform initiatives remain largely unacknowledged. This paper provides two crucial explanations for this phenomenon that are insufficiently addressed by current social movement theories. The first concerns (1) the misrepresentation of the Muslim Brotherhood in current scholarship as a philanthropic organization and thus, an actor with interests congruent with the working/poorer classes, and secondly, (2) the regime's ability to suppress labor reforms while simultaneously instituting a facade of democratic measures to curtail criticism. I begin by providing an alternative narrative of the Muslim Brotherhood's trajectory that challenges a dominant framework prevalent with inaccuracies about their political motivations, and thus their relationship to social justice issues more broadly. Secondly, I offer an analysis of the regime's response to workers' strikes during Morsi's term in the current economic context.