Thousands march for SA pay rise
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Tens of thousands of South African public sector workers take to the streets to demand pay rises.
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Unions representing hundreds of thousands of striking South Africa's civil servants are expected to suspend their protest after last night's wage talks with the government, union officials said on Thursday.
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Union leaders and advocates for the poor are uniting behind an effort to raise the state's $6.75-an-hour minimum wage for the first time since 2001 and to tie future increases to the inflation rate, a move that would make Massachusetts only the fourth state in the nation to establish that link.
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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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The push-and-pull over the 2009 federal pay raise is underway.
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Thousands of postal workers in Scotland are due to escalate action in a dispute over pay and modernisation.
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Hundreds of workers rallied on the steps of the Labor Department yesterday to protest the implementation of new rules they say
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Thousands of gays and lesbians have held a noisy march to celebrate South Africa&#39;s gay rights laws, unprecedented on a continent where many regard homosexuality as an un-African taboo.
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Thousands are expected to march in protest at the treatment of Australia's indigenous peoples.
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Up to 15,000 police officers are expected to take part in today's pay protest march through Westminster
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More than 2,000 students marched through the centre of Cardiff today in a national demonstration against top-up fees.
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More striking German civil servants held rallies Tuesday to press for higher wages amid a growing tax evasion scandal that could give labour militants a tailor-made issue to back up their demands.
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Malawian civil servants with HIV will be given a pay rise to help them buy more food, a government minister says.
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Pressure on Brown rises as public service unions plan campaign to fight below-inflation pay offers.
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Supporters of Jacob Zuma celebrate his election as leader of South Africa's governing ANC.
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As a record 25,000 officers march on Westminster, their union accuses ministers of a breach of trust
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Hundreds of security men from President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement held a rally in Gaza on Wednesday to demand the government he set up in the occupied West Bank pay their salaries.