S. Africa public workers strike
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JOHANNESBURG -- Public sector workers yesterday staged the biggest strike in post-apartheid South Africa, closing down schools, forcing hospital patients to return home, and leaving only minimum staffing in prisons.
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Tens of thousands of South African union workers marched on Wednesday in sympathy with striking civil servants in a massive show of force over a wage dispute that has fuelled political tensions.
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Â· Unanimous backing for action on public sector pay  Â· Postal workers announce new wave of disruption
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National strike will hit public transport across nation.
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Civil servants and teachers are the latest groups to go on strike,  as protests against public sector job cuts continue.
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Talks between the South African government and representatives of public sector workers aimed at averting a strike later this week failed on Wednesday, a union spokesman said.
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Public transport grinds to a halt in the Netherlands as workers strike against the government's planned welfare cuts.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden  - Sweden's transport workers union said Tuesday that as many as 2,500 of its members will go on strike Oct. 11 in response to proposed changes in salaries and working hours at SAS AB.
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More than 600 striking public health workers in South Africa have been sacked, a government minister says.
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South African police on Monday fired rubber bullets at demonstrators burning tires and stoning cars on a highway into Cape Town in protest against government failures to provide basic amenities.
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Africans opened a new home for the first Pan-African Parliament yesterday at a colourful event in Johannesburg marred only by a civil servant strike.
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Rail workers in France are on strike over the government's policies of economic liberalisation, which they say threaten the public sector.
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French teachers went on strike on Thursday, the third day of public sector protests over pay, reforms and job cuts that have sent a sharp warning to President Jacques Chirac's conservative government.
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A general strike called by unions seeking to overturn government price hikes moved into its second day on Thursday, with streets increasingly deserted across Africa's most-populous nation.
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South African civil servants launched a countrywide strike on Friday, which union leaders declared a success but early participation appeared patchy.
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CONGRESS of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said yesterday that he was impressed not only by the massive turnout at the public sector protest march in Pretoria, but also by the colour and cultural mix of the strikers.
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Tens of thousands of nurses, teachers and other public service workers took to the streets throughout South Africa on Friday to press their demands for a 12 percent pay increase.