NHS national strike set to start
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NHS Logistics staff are set to stage the first national strike in the health service for 18 years.
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Maintenance workers at Heathrow and Gatwick airports are to stage a 24-hour strike next month over a pay dispute.
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SEATTLE -- A five-day strike by nurses and other health care workers was expected to begin Monday morning against Group Health Cooperative.
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Unison calls on Chancellor Gordon Brown to set aside money for the NHS in his Budget plans.
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By WILLIAM TINNING  BBC journalists and technical staff are to stage a 24-hour strike in a row over jobs which threatens to disrupt radio and TV news programmes, unions announced yesterday.
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Abuja - Tens of millions of Nigerian workers began yesterday a four-day nationwide strike over rising fuel prices as labour leaders launched their latest challenge to President Olusegun Obasanjo&#39;s economic reforms.
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The nationwide public sector strike which began yesterday morning has already affected some 24,000 would-be international travelers.
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South Africa's health department began firing health workers on Saturday over a week-old strike by public servants which has crippled government hospitals and schools, state media reported.
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Data losses exacerbated by job losses The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union will on Monday begin balloting members on possible strike action to protest at continuing redundancies at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC).â¦
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Up to 130,000 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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Royal Mail workers are to hold a 24-hour strike on Friday, 29 June, the main postal union has confirms.
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JOHANNESBURG, June 1 -- Public-sector workers staged a nationwide strike Friday, closing down schools, forcing hospital patients to return home and leaving only minimum staffing in prisons.
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Several thousand people are expected to gather in Glasgow to protest against changes to local hospitals.
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Nearly 300,000 civil servants are to be balloted on the first strike throughout Whitehall for more than a decade, action which could bring virtually all government services to a halt.
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South African civil servants launched a national strike on Friday, causing turmoil in some hospitals and emptying classrooms as unions demanded a hefty wage hike from the government.
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Tough new targets to tackle Wales's high NHS waiting lists are set to be announced by the Welsh Assembly Government.
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More than 7,000 health care workers and registered nurses could hold a one-day strike at 10 Sutter Health hospitals on Dec. 1 if progress toward a contract is not made before then, union representatives announced Friday.