Nigeria unions warn over oil hike
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Trade unions in Nigeria threaten to call a general strike in protest at recent fuel price hikes.
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LAGOS: A four-day general strike over rising fuel prices has begun in Nigeria, Africa&#39;s largest oil producer. The largest trade union grouping in the country, the Nigerian Labour Congress, said more strikes
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Tens of millions of Nigerian workers began a nationwide strike over rising fuel prices as President Olusegun Obasanjo's sought to draw union leaders into talks and world oil prices soared.
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Nigeria&#39;s main umbrella union has said it will go ahead with a general strike in Africa&#39;s top oil producer on Monday to protest against rising domestic fuel prices.
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Nigerian unions threatened to disrupt  power and water supplies on Friday after talks collapsed on the  third day of a general strike to protest against a rise in fuel  prices.
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Nigeria&#39;s main labor union on Monday lifted its threat of a nationwide strike that would have shut down the oil industry in the world&#39;s No.
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Crude oil futures rose Friday as markets remained wary about a possible strike by oil workers in Nigeria and potentially low heating oil supplies at the beginning of the Northern Hemisphere winter.
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Nigeria&#39;s largest labor union is on strike to protest the rising prices of fuel in Africa&#39;s largest oil-producing country, defying a court order declaring the labor action illegal.
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Nigeria&#39;s labour unions threatened to toughen their stance and bring the country to a complete standstill on Friday for the third day of an indefinite general strike.
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Oil prices surge over $76 barrel amid growing concern that unrest in Nigeria will damage exports.
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Nigeria's main oil workers union threatened to join a nationwide strike and shut down the nation's oil industry as a court rejected a government attempt Wednesday to halt the work stoppage.
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Unions vowed to extend a general strike over fuel prices in Nigeria to a second day on Tuesday, helping drive world oil prices to record highs even though shipments from Africa&#39;s top producer were unaffected.
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Crude oil in New York approached $70 a barrel for the first time since September after Nigerian unions planned a strike this week, threatening supplies from Africa's biggest oil producer.
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Nigerian unions have decided to hold an indefinite general strike on November 16 to protest against rising fuel prices in the world&#39;s eighth largest oil exporter.
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NIGERIAN workers would disrupt their country&#39;s key oil exports of 2.5 million barrels per day with an indefinite general strike from November 16, the country&#39;s top labour leader warned today.
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Crude oil rose in New York after reports said unions in Nigeria, the fifth-biggest supplier to the US, called a strike this month to disrupt the country&#39;s oil exports.
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Nigeria&#39;s main labour union said it would go ahead with its general strike called for Wednesday after the government refused to reverse a 15 percent hike in the price of petrol.