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May 4, 2010

Labor Protests in Egypt Call For Minimum Wage Increase
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In Egypt, a new wave of labor protests are sweeping the country. This
weekend hundreds of activists and laborers demonstrated in Cairo
demanding a rise in the minimum wage, that has not changed in over two
decades and is now worth just $6 a month. This latest wave of protests
was set off by a court ruling earlier this year in favor of raising the
national minimum wage to 1200 Egyptian pounds a month, which
approximates about $215 US dollars. Egyptian worker and labor activist
Nagy Rashad is the man who brought the case to court and won. He was at
Sunday’s rally calling on the Egyptian government to implement the court
ruling.



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