Civil servants hold strike action
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Around 20,000 civil servants are on strike in Wales to protest against proposed job losses.
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JOHANNESBURG, June 13 -- Tens of thousands of government workers on Wednesday intensified their biggest strike since the end of apartheid, closing schools, snarling transportation systems and virtually shutting down sections of South Africa's largest cities.
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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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Defying a strong government warning,tens of thousands of South Korean civil servants walked off their job Monday, demanding collective action and other full labor rights, reported South Korean Yonhap News Agency.
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Thousands of South African public sector workers go on strike for a second Friday demanding a 12% pay rise.
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Rail workers join France's rolling campaign of strikes in the public sector, with massive disruptions expected.
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Many schools are shut as thousands of South African public sector workers go on strike for higher wages.
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Almost 300,000 civil servants will be balloted for a one-day national strike against government plans to cut jobs.
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Thousands of Palestinian civil servants strike over the failure of the Hamas-led government to pay wages.
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[World News]: Seoul, Nov 15 : Tens of thousands of civil servants in South Korea struck work Monday, demanding labour rights, Xinhua reports.
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Unions warn millions of civil servants could strike if their pension scheme is axed and they have to work longer.
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South African civil servants staged an indefinite nationwide strike over pay on Friday, causing turmoil in hospitals and emptying classrooms in a mass action the government fears could hurt the economy.
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South Africa's public sector unions escalated their 12-day-old strike Wednesday with calls for other workers to join them in support of their demand for a wage increase.
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Thousands of postal staff across NI are taking part in industrial action over pay and restructuring plans.
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South African unions and government officials meet to try and thrash out a pay deal, as more strikes loom next week.
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Tens of thousands of South African union workers marched on Wednesday in sympathy with striking civil servants in a massive show of force over a wage dispute that has fuelled political tensions.
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Britain's largest civil service union voted for a one-day strike to combat government plans to axe 100,000 jobs, a move that could lead to the biggest disruption of government services in a decade.