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The Egyptian government has raised the monthly minimum wage to 400 Egyptian pounds, $69 (£44), an increase of a third following a rise in 2008.
The Thursday's decision by the National Center for Wages came in response to two court rulings ordering the government to consider recent price hikes in setting the wage.
Rights groups and labor unions criticized the move saying the increase was trivial and only concerns the pre-tax wage. Activists have called for a minimum wage three times higher.
Thousands of government employees and factory workers have held strikes over the past months over their low salaries which have been hammered by inflation and commodity price increases.
Around 40 percent of the country's 76.5 million people live on or near the poverty line of $2 a day.
Ok im not ranting on here on this one as ive already vented ny rage on the " Blue side " and at even greater length on FB , all i will say on here is its bloody disgusting !
My friend, a journalist in Cairo was at the protest.
She saw the whole thing... the copts were protesting peacefully... the security forces just ploughed in!
I'm so sad for Egypt right now!!
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Me too, poor Egypt. I really fear for the future for them :cry:
For those of you on Facebook, you may have difficulty logging on as the Egyptian Government have been blocking Facebook users in an attempt to stop people who took part in Tuesdays Riots getting...
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Banks, trains and stock exchange all closed down today, road blocks have been set up going into Sharm as rumours sread that Hosni Mubarak is staying in his villa there 8)
