U.K. postal workers stage 24-hour strike
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Postal workers across Britain went on strike Friday, in the first industrial action at Royal Mail for a decade.
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Workers who refuel planes at Heathrow airport today began a 48-hour strike after rejecting a two-year pay offer. Around 40 members of the Transport and General Workers Union walked out in the early hours of this morning after turning down the deal.
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Picket lines were mounted outside sorting offices and mail centres from early this morning, crippling deliveries, in the first national strike in more than a decade.
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4.15pm: Fresh 24-hour stoppage in bitter row over pay and jobs set to cripple mail deliveries next Friday.
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Postal staff went on strike Friday -- their first national walk-out in more than a decade -- in a row over pay and government plans to cut thousands of jobs at the semi-privatised Royal Mail.
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Millions of commuters in London endured travel chaos on Tuesday as a 72-hour strike by maintenance workers closed most of the underground rail network.
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Hundreds of baggage handlers at Gatwick airport have started a 24-hour strike as part of a dispute over workloads. The action, involving around 600 Servisair baggage staff, began at 0300 BST on Saturday.
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More than 2,000 tube maintenance workers are set to strike later today in a move which could bring widespread disruption to London's underground network.
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Royal Mail workers are to hold a 24-hour strike on Friday 29 June, the main postal union confirms.
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Australian customs officers will launch a 24-hour strike from midnight Thursday, disrupting traffic into the nation's major air and sea ports, union leaders said.
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British civil servants were staging their biggest strike in a decade, with union officials predicting that around 200,000 people would take part in the one-day stoppage.
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Thousands more workers at British Airways voted to strike for 24 hours over pay during a busy public holiday weekend later this month, union leaders said.
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Tens of thousands of Christmas shoppers, holidaymakers and workers suffered travel chaos today because of a strike by Tube drivers at the start of a day of industrial unrest.
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Up to 130,000 British postal staff will stage a 24-hour strike next Friday -- their first in more than a decade -- in a row over pay and conditions, union leaders said on Thursday.
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Workers for London Underground have voted to authorize a strike to press demands for a new contract and a retroactive pay hike, the RMT union said Monday.
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Gatwick baggage  handlers walk out for a second 24-hour strike to protest at workloads they say are too heavy.
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Drivers on a London subway line will stage one-day strikes on Dec. 24 and Jan. 5, their union said Tuesday, disrupting travel over the busy Christmas period.