Israeli Labor Union announces end to public sector strike
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The Israeli Labor Federation Histadrut announced an end to the nationwide public sector strike Wednesday noon and ordered strikers to return to work.
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Israel's Cabinet approved a compensation plan Sunday for settlers withdrawing from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank, handing Ariel Sharon an important victory two days before a showdown in parliament over the pullout.
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Israeli tanks rumbled out of the Gaza Strip on Friday, ending a massive 16-day offensive that killed at least 100 Palestinians in an attempt to stop rocket fire into the Jewish state.
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Labor unions on Saturday called off a strike aimed at overturning a government fuel-price hike, ending a four-day work stoppage that shut down most major economic activity in Africa's biggest oil producer, officials said.
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A four-month strike by Norway's offshore oil workers was set to end after their union announced they would return to work.
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Hundreds of thousands of South African public sector workers went on strike on Thursday in the largest industrial action witnessed in the last decade.
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A truce between Palestinian militants in Gaza and Israel took effect on Sunday, heralding a possible end to a wave of rocket attacks on the Jewish state and a halt to a five-month-old Israeli military offensive.
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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Labour Party leader Shimon Peres reached a deal on Thursday that appeared to clear a final obstacle towards forming a unity government that would press ahead with a Gaza pullout.
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Israeli government officials were meeting here on Tuesday afternoon with the representatives of Histadrut labor federation in efforts to bring an end to a nationwide strike which started Tuesday morning.
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Israeli high school teachers ended a two-month strike on Thursday after receiving a pay raise and government promises to redress some of the problems in the Israeli school system, including class size.
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Israel&#39;s ruling Likud party has closed a deal with the opposition Labor party to form a unity government. Under the agreement, Labor leader Shimon Peres will be second in command to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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PITTSBURGH The board of directors of the United States&#39; largest flight attendants union today unanimously approved a resolution authorizing a nationwide strike.
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Israel&#39;s Security Cabinet has approved a compensation package for Jewish settlers who will be removed from the Gaza Strip under the government&#39;s pull-out plan.
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WORKERS on London&#39;s underground railway today averted New Year&#39;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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Peru's public school teachers on Thursday ended a 15-day strike against a new law requiring them to take competency tests after government officials agreed to talks on their demand for better training.
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Workers at Volkswagen&#39;s Mexico plant agreed to end a three-day-old strike Saturday and accept a pay package very close to the company&#39;s original offer, officials
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The UAW union ends its strike at General Motors after reaching a tentative deal with the carmaker.