S.Africa hospitals hit as public servants strike
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South African civil servants launched a national strike on Friday, causing turmoil in some hospitals and emptying classrooms as unions demanded a hefty wage hike from the government.
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Hundreds of staff involved in providing medical equipment to hospitals across England began a 24-hour strike in what union bosses claim to be the biggest walk-out to hit the country's largely free National Heath Service (NHS) in 20 years.
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NHS staff who supply goods and equipment to English hospitals are to go on strike over a privatisation deal.
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afrol News, 16 September - South Africa&#39;s civil service workers today widely followed the trade union&#39;s one-day strike order and paralysed many state services.
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South Africa alerts police after patients with incurable and infectious tuberculosis escape from hospital.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa The ruling party in South Africa is launching a blistering attack on US health officials, claiming Africans were treated like &quot;guinea pigs&quot; when they were sent an AIDS drug.
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Thousands of civil servants marched in cities across South Africa Thursday in a one-day strike over wages seen as a test of will between the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and its labor allies.
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South Africa's civil service strike broadened on Wednesday as other union workers walked out, piling more pressure on the government in a dispute stoking political tensions in Africa's largest economy.
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FREDERICTON (CP) - New Brunswick hospital workers went on strike as promised early Monday in Premier Bernard Lord's Moncton riding.
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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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Thousands of Palestinian civil servants strike over the failure of the Hamas-led government to pay wages.
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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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LONDON: Museums were closed, driving tests disrupted and ministerial cars went unwashed yesterday when British civil servants staged their biggest strike in more than a decade.
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Health workers plan a one-day strike at 14 hospitals in Northern California owned by Sacramento-based Sutter Health. Up to 7,000 workers represented by the California Nurses Association and
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As a rising number of HIV/AIDS patients turn to already over-stretched public sector facilities, the ongoing humanitarian crisis is undermining the quality of care in Southern Africa&#39;s health system.
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South Africa's government gives striking public sector workers an ultimatum to accept their pay offer.
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At least 60 people were injured in  clashes between police and opposition activists during a  nationwide strike on Saturday, the fifth in two weeks.