Egyptian Workers Strike for Minimum Wage and Independent Unions

[TallFastLoud]

fuck. yeah.

[dougjnesbitt]

great reporting!

this part of the revolution is what the Western press don't want to cover

[Elin48]

The place from where the Egyptians are fighting, talking from is where our government (and the corporations) seem to be pushing us to, as seen in Wisconsin, blaming the private sector workers, those with unions, teachers, police, firefighters, etc...and asking then to sacrifice even more.

[boumar19721972]

They're fighting for Unions in Egypt while in America they're destroying them. America=Epic Fail

[Elin48]

@boumar19721972 yes...this is ironic isn't it...more than ironic, it's depressing. I am a teacher, and for the last 20 years in our bargaining we have asked for health care over pay raises, now they are systematically taking our health care benefits away. For over 20 years I've been paying into my retirement, and my district matches my payments. I am paid for 10 months, not 12. I am paid for 6 hours a day even though I work far for more than this.

[boumar19721972]

@Elin48 I think we need a new system because this one is broken and it will bring us down. Watch "zeitgeist moving forward" on youtube.  /watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w Let's stop worrying and start living.

[sheepblitzer]

why cant they do what happened in spain in 1936? just kick out the bosses and owners, run the factories without them, and share the profits.

[greenday1978]

@sheepblitzer It can be done. Look at the John Lewis partnership in the UK or the Mondragon group in spain. If capitalism is so good it should be for all. A world where we have family run small and medium businesses, co-operatives, mutualities and worker-owner\worker runned companies is possible and it would be a much better world.

[chi8cago]

Paul Jay should be awarded for showing what NO other "news" outlet would dare. Thanks Paul.

[MerrillMedia]

These unions and political movements are just puppets of CIA run front group NGOs like the NED. They are getting played on both sides to employ and retain America's hegemony. You do not increase prosperity through minimum wage laws. Prosperity is only achieved through respect of rights and capital accumulation.

[paddedshell]

oh, the irony, that these people are fighting for unions and rights at the same time as state side stupids trying to persuade the people that unions are bad.

[ddsharper]

@paddedshell unions are bad.

[taxisgay12]

As far as chants go,the Egyptians rule.

[StraussBR]

is that minimum wage of $210 realistic to the egiptian situation? i'd really like to know

[NicosNicosNicosNicos]

Very moving.

[shintsu01]

i hope for them this will be honored. but if they are unlucky the army will not tolerate this minimal wage demand....

[blackiron60]

Mubarak is gone and now all the little Mubaraks he created must be purged. Long live the Egyptian worker's revolution!

[egolayer13]

Power to the workers!  ¡Hasta la victoria siempre!

[Mystery207]

At 5:11 Shit hits the fan. 

[cymonebreathe]

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY :O)

[yuri35435]

It's Mubarak without Mubarak :(

[RedGaribaldi]

Excellent work TRNN, thank you.

[topthickproducer]

Egypt's revolution is a collective effort, win no need for leaders.

Unlike the Tea-baggers that need their 'daddies' : THE KOCH BROTHERS!!

Think about it!!

[screwopenborders]

@topthickproducer I keep hearing people like yourself pigeon holing the Tea Party when you probably don't know much at all about it except for what you hear on msnbc. I mean play politics but stick to facts, Tea Party doesn't need leaders to go out and vote and the people that when ahead and declared themselves Tea Party like Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin really are Libertarian or Tea Party. Even Bachman voted for The Patriot Act, thats not very Libertarian.

[topthickproducer]

@screwopenborders I wholeheartedly support Smart Politicians like Ron Paul, Kucinich, Sanders,

but the rest of the politicians, whatever they call themselves, Left/Right/Conservative/Neocon­/Liberal are hypocrite scum of the earth. The tea party is too amorphous and molded by the Koch Brothers

[Xenthoid]

@screwopenborders When one places the names Sarah Palin and Glen beck in the same sentence with libertarian without 'aren't ', one loses credibility.



[MopacMurtaza]

What a beauty it is to see people protesting against corruption and the capitalist pigs, and getting their demands through. I pray for all Egyptians, that they get a better future!

[zymoticsspot]

Let everyone be free !!

[ixamxmsright]

ok they are free now. It's on them to change things.

[WellIAMScottish]

The Egyptians will work it out. It may not be pretty, but they will create their own future. As will the Tunisians and the Libyans and the people of ever dictatorship yet to be challenged and felled. Blessed are the resisters.

[MrGAB4444]

When the USA is toast (happening now), the rest of the world will be as piece of cake

The US Constitution, blueprint for INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM useful idiots will get what they deserve

[MrGAB4444]

Marching 'USEFUL IDIOTS' (unions)

Jim Willie 2, 23, 2011

The hidden message behind the QE2 chapter, the second of many, is that the USFed is planning to give every working man & woman in the US a big pay cut, so the USEconomy can more capably compete with foreign labor. The US is heading to a dangerous place where poverty abounds, the population is rendered unable to contend with the rising costs, shortages crop up, & labor turns cheap'

US union protests (soon riots) are the catalyst

[sandite26]

This is absolutely beautiful to see happening...

[IronicallyVague]

Broke means broke....

Soon all fingers will point to the USA as the cause & dance over her rotting corpse

[frozenimran]

USAs puppets are so generous to their own people