Thousands demonstrate for higher minimum wage in cairo ($67/mo)

[Hannah Bell]

Thousands of Egyptian workers demonstrated in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday to demand an increase in the country's 400 Egyptian pound ($67) per month minimum wage and other rights.

"We were not allowed to express our support for workers under Mubarak. Now that we can, it is our responsibility to do so," said Lawyer Ramy Ghanem, 33, a member of a lobbying group, the National Front for Justice and Democracy, which helped organize the May Day protest.

The government appointed after Mubarak resigned on February 11 has been struggling to manage the workforce's high expectations at a time when political turmoil has chased away tourists and foreign investors, two of its main sources of revenue.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/01/us-egypt-labour-idUSTRE7402HX20110501


too bad, kiddos, mubarak's gone but the regime lives on; there's "no money" to pay you, so sorry, these protests scared away all the nice tourists & "foreign investors" so we just can't pay you anything but starvation wages, but be happy with your fake "regime change," your fake "democracy", your fake "freedom," your media event & your stage-managed "lives"