Striking teachers back in class
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Pupils and staff at a County Antrim school return to classrooms after industrial action is suspended.
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College lecturers stage a one-day strike as part of their campaign to get pay parity with school teachers.
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Like many schoolchildren, members of Congress were due back at their desks Tuesday after a summer break. Unlike the students, lawmakers will immediately face major tests: on Iraq, children's health care, a home mortgage crisis and the budget.
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Kentucky&#39;s biggest teachers&#39; union called off a threatened statewide strike last night, just hours after lawmakers wrapped up a special session that approved legislation
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The state teachers union was to reconsider a threatened strike after the Kentucky General Assembly met its insurance demands Tuesday.
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Facing dwindling bank accounts, striking TV and film writers returned to the picket line Wednesday, saying they're eager to get back to work but determined to tough it out until their demands are met.
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Some schools are now using TV cameras to monitor teachers' classroom performance.
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Teachers in France stage a strike in protest at plans which would remove their right to teach for fewer hours.
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Many schools are shut as thousands of South African public sector workers go on strike for higher wages.
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Classroom assistants are getting ready to picket outside schools as their one-day strike action gets under way.
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PRETORIA : Hundreds of thousands of teachers, nurses, police and other public sector employees walked off the job across South Africa to demand better wages in one of the biggest strikes since the end of apartheid a decade ago.
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French teachers went on strike on Thursday, the third day of public sector protests over pay, reforms and job cuts that have sent a sharp warning to President Jacques Chirac's conservative government.
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Pupils at a County Antrim school are told to take a second day off as their teachers remain on strike.
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Thousands of teachers and other public service workers stage a one-day strike in France.
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Thousands of striking Detroit teachers defied a judge's order to return to work Monday as school officials and the union resumed contract talks in the two-week dispute.
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Classroom assistants will stage a one-day strike, but talks end with both unions and employers upbeat.
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French civil servants and teachers are the latest to go on strike, as protests against public sector job cuts continue.