3,500 workers go on strike at U. Minn.
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Clerical, technical and health workers went on strike Wednesday at the University of Minnesota after contract talks with their union broke down.
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An explosion and fire at an Abbott Laboratories manufacturing site early Saturday sent three employees to the hospital, company and fire officials said.
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Millions of workers across Italy are expected to take part in a general strike against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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Rome: Millions of Italian workers took part in a one-day general strike against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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Thousands gather to march in South African cities as trade unions hold a general strike aimed at a "total shutdown".
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German union leaders say more than 12,000 workers have staged warning strikes at three Volkswagen plants, while a sixth round of contract talks was scheduled in Hannover.
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By our reporters. Some 50,000 auto workers took part Tuesday in protests against plans to cut 12,000 jobs at General Motorsâ European subsidiaries.
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DETROIT - Thousands of United Auto Workers walked off the job at General Motors plants yesterday in the first nationwide strike against the US auto industry since 1976.
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MONTREAL (CP) - Three groups of Canada Post employees have threatened to strike during next month's annual Christmas rush.
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United Auto Workers union- represented workers at plants in Michigan and Ohio began walking off the job and organizing pickets as a strike against General Motors Corp began on Monday.
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Nigerian oil workers' unions are staging a three-day strike to protest at the lack of security in the Niger Delta.
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Nearly 40,000 people in Germany took part in protests over US auto giant General Motors&#39; plans to axe 12,000 jobs, about one-fifth of its European workforce.
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Almost 300,000 civil servants will be balloted for a one-day national strike against government plans to cut jobs.
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Hundreds of thousands of South African public sector workers went on strike on Thursday in the largest industrial action witnessed in the last decade.
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Around 20,000 civil servants are on strike in Wales to protest against proposed job losses.
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A strike by thousands of Indian truckers protesting a proposed new tax entered its third day, with officials reporting a sharp increase in prices of essential goods in major centres.
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The South Korean Government Employees&#39; Union said Sunday its 140,000 members will begin a nationwide strikeMonday. &quot;We&#39;ll push ahead with the walkout to claim full labor rights,&quot; said a KGEU official.