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<span style="font-weight: bold">* SPECIAL REPORT * Confirmed : Egypt...ingtonpost )...</span>
Bus drivers and other public transportation employees inEgypt have gone on strike as spreading labor unrest adds momentum to mass protests calling for President Hosni Mubarak's ouster.Anti-government protesters shout slogans as they line up after spending the night in front of the Egyptian Parliament in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. Around 2,000 protesters waved huge flags outside the parliament, several blocks from Tahrir Square, where they moved two days earlier in the movement's first expansion out of the square.Photo Credit: (AP)Ali Fatouh, a bus driver in Cairo says buses were locked in the garages and won't be moved "until we achieve our demands," which include salary increases. He says organizers are calling on all 62,000 transportation employees to participate.Some buses were still seen on the streets early Thursday and it's not immediately clear how widespread the strike is.But the effort comes as an uprising that began Jan. 25 has unleashed public rage over widespread poverty and low wages amid reports that Mubarak's family has amassed vast wealth.http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...77251192318110
<span style="font-weight: bold">* SPECIAL REPORT * Confirmed : Egypt...ingtonpost )...</span>
Bus drivers and other public transportation employees inEgypt have gone on strike as spreading labor unrest adds momentum to mass protests calling for President Hosni Mubarak's ouster.Anti-government protesters shout slogans as they line up after spending the night in front of the Egyptian Parliament in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. Around 2,000 protesters waved huge flags outside the parliament, several blocks from Tahrir Square, where they moved two days earlier in the movement's first expansion out of the square.Photo Credit: (AP)Ali Fatouh, a bus driver in Cairo says buses were locked in the garages and won't be moved "until we achieve our demands," which include salary increases. He says organizers are calling on all 62,000 transportation employees to participate.Some buses were still seen on the streets early Thursday and it's not immediately clear how widespread the strike is.But the effort comes as an uprising that began Jan. 25 has unleashed public rage over widespread poverty and low wages amid reports that Mubarak's family has amassed vast wealth.http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...77251192318110