Mahalla textile labor leader Kamal el-Fayoumi interviewed by Reuters.
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3 April: Workers rally for new minimum wage مظاهرة عمالية لرفع الحد الأدنى للأجور
The Workers Preparatory Committee, the Union of Real Estate Tax Collectors, Postal Workers Committee and Mahalla’s Textile Workers League are calling for a mass rally, in downtown Cairo, 3 April, 11am, to demand raising the national minimum wage from LE35 a month, unchanged from 1984, to LE1200.
More details soon about the protest and location. For continuous updates on industrial actions, please follow the Egyptian Workers group on Diigo and #egyworkers on Twitter.
UPDATE: Confirmed, the protest will take place in Hussein Hegazi Street.
Why does the western media ignore Egyptian dissent?
While pro-democracy protests in Iran top the news agenda, similar tensions in Egypt pass unreported, Jack Shenker writes for the New Statesman.