New Labor Protests Flare in Egypt

For a moment on Monday, Cairo’s Tahrir Square was nearly empty of protesters, who had largely gone home for the first time in weeks after successfully ousting President Hosni Mubarak. But demonstrations flared again Monday as Egyptian workers rallied against labor conditions, demanding better pay and other workers’ rights. Military leaders, now in charge of the government for a provisional six-month period, urged the protesters to go home and get back to work, but hundreds still filed into Tahrir Square to take up their cause.