Tube workers back strike action
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Union members vote for two days of industrial action in a dispute over job cuts and longer shifts.
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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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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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A truckers&#39; union on Sunday said its strike against a proposed service tax on the industry had not been called off, but temporarily deferred until contentious issues were sorted out.
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Workers on London's underground railway  on Friday averted New Year's Eve travel chaos by calling off a  planned strike after reaching a deal with managers over hours,  pay and conditions, a union spokesman said.
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Unions claim a breakthrough in the fight to stop the closure of half the Remploy factories in Britain.
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Londoners face travel problems because of strike by tube staff.
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NEW YORK : The leaders of the largest US flight attendants&#39; union voted to authorize strike action by its members, in response to threats from bankrupt US carriers to unilaterally scrap labour contracts.
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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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Christmas came early for Londoners after hundreds of signal workers for the capital's underground metro network called off plans to strike on New Year's Eve, union leaders said.
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Airport bosses dismiss a strike by Heathrow fuel workers but unions insist the action will start to have an effect.
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Trade union leaders in Nigeria vow to press on with a general strike despite government efforts to promote talks.
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Union locals representing 43,000 Stop &amp; Shop supermarket workers in southern New England voted yesterday to approve a new three-year contract, averting a threatened strike that would have hit consumers in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
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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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London Underground was restoring all tube services on Wednesday after a planned three-day strike by maintenance workers was suspended after 30 hours.
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Nigerian trade union leaders have vowed to press on with their four-day general strike, despite government efforts to placate them with talks.
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London Underground was restoring all  tube services on Wednesday after a planned three-day strike by  maintenance workers was suspended after 30 hours.