Thousands of prison officers in England and Wales go on strike
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Thousands of prison officers across England and Wales started a 24-strike over pay Wednesday, forcing many jails to lock offenders in their cells.
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Thousands of police officers staged a rare mass rally in central London on Wednesday in a protest over pay.
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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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Thousands of prison officers across England and Wales started a 24-strike over pay Wednesday, forcing jails, many of them seriously overcrowded, to lock offenders in their cells.
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More than 200 inmates staged an uprising Tuesday on the roof of their prison to demand the ouster of the warden and seek better conditions.
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The number of prisoners in England and Wales reaches a record high of 81,135 inmates.
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Police used tear gas to force 46 inmates out of a prison area where they had barricaded themselves and set fire to mattresses and books, authorities said.
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The National Union of Teachers is to ballot its members in England and Wales on a one-day strike over pay.
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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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The number of prisoners in England and Wales has risen to a record high of almost 81,000, the Prison Service said today.
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Prison officers are pressing for industrial action in protest at moves to ban them from striking, a union says.
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Rail commuters are going on "fares strike" to protest about prices, overcrowding and unreliability.
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The UK's biggest civil service union is to ballot members on strikes in protest at government pension review plans.
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More than 80 schools are closed as thousands of workers in the UK's biggest local authority go on strike.
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Prison officers are struggling to control a group of al-Qaeda terrorists who are clashing with other serious offenders in one of Britain's high-security jails
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Prison officers in England and Wales returned to work on Thursday after staging an illegal 24-hour strike over pay which prompted the government to secure a court injunction to end the protest.
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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.