Air controller protest strands 40,000 in Norway
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Some 40,000 passengers were stranded in Norway when air travel over the southern half of the country was paralyzed after air controllers didn't show up for work over job reorganization plans.
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AMSTERDAM More than 150,000 people took to the streets over the weekend to protest planned cuts to social benefits in what police described as the largest antigovernment demonstrations in the Netherlands in 20 years.
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Norwegian authorities are trying to stop the improper use of the Norwegian flag by a German clothing company that caters to neo-Nazis. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was in Berlin over the weekend for the ...Comment
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More Airbus workers go on strike in protest at the firm's restructuring plans, which include 10,000 job cuts.
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Nearly 40,000 people in Germany, backed by expressions of support elsewhere in Europe, took to the streets to protest plans by US auto giant General Motors to axe about one-fifth of its European workforce and possibly even close a plant.
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Hundreds of thousands of French people took part in demonstrations across the country to protest against government plans to reform the 35-hour work week.
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Story in full: UP TO 100,000 passengers face being stranded at airports across Britain over the bank-holiday weekend after unions threatened strike action designed to cause maximum disruption.
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Climate campaigners occupy one of Britain's leading carbon managment companies in a protest about offsetting.
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SEOUL : Tens of thousands of workers have rallied here to protest a government reform bill aimed at stopping union militancy and securing flexible job markets, as a powerful labor group called a massive strike next week against the legislation.
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OSLO, Norway  - As a strike by Norwegian offshore oil rig workers dragged into its third month, employers were set to retaliate with a lockout planned for Thursday.
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COPENHAGEN -- Anarchists from across northern Europe flocked to join protesters in the Danish capital yesterday after two nights of riots sparked by the eviction of squatters from an abandoned building that had been a center for young leftists and punk rockers.
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Thousands of striking Airbus workers demonstrated Tuesday in Toulouse, the European aircraft maker's headquarters, to protest plans to cut 10,000 jobs and spin off or close six European plants.Comment
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Heathrow protesters say the air travel boom is making jet engines a growing source of carbon emissions
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands  - More than 150,000 people took to the streets to protest planned cuts to social benefits in what police described as the largest anti-government demonstration in the Netherlands in 20 years.
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LARNACA, Cyprus, Oct 5  - The Cypriot authorities issued a strong protest Tuesday after Israeli warplanes forced a German airliner into their flight control zone without prior authorization amid a bomb alert.
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Hundreds of flights were canceled and many others delayed on Friday due to a four-hour air traffic controllers&#39; strike in Italy, when unions protested against plans to centralize control of central Europe&#39;s upper-airspace.
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HANOVER, Germany: Demonstrators in Germany chained themselves to a railway yesterday to stop a shipment of highly radioactive nuclear waste from France, a day after a protester was crushed to death under the ...