South Africa public workers on strike
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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 Palestinian civil servants strike over the failure of the Hamas-led government to pay wages.
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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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A one-day nationwide strike of civil service workers in South Africa has brought education to a standstill and affected many other state agencies.
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Israeli unions began a nationwide strike on Tuesday expected to affect about 400,000 public sector workers and severely hamper international travel.
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More than 600 striking public health workers in South Africa have been sacked, a government minister says.
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South African trade unions called off a four-week public servants strike on Thursday, with most accepting a 7.5 percent general pay rise offered by government.
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Thousands of teachers and other public service workers stage a one-day strike in France.
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South Korean public sector workers launched an unprecedented strike Monday, setting them on a collision course with the government of President Roh Moo-hyun, which has vowed a tough line on what it labels an illegal
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Almost 300,000 civil servants will be balloted for a one-day national strike against government plans to cut jobs. The proposed strike action would take place on 5 November and is in response to the proposed axing of over 100,000 jobs in the service.
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South African workers striking over pay and benefits have a new complaint -- they no longer have the energy for sex.
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Two South African unions break ranks with the main labour movement, calling off their strike.
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South African civil servants launched a countrywide strike on Friday, which union leaders declared a success but early participation appeared patchy.
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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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French civil servants and teachers are the latest to go on strike, as protests against public sector job cuts continue.
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A general strike called by unions seeking to overturn government price hikes moved into its second day on Thursday, with streets increasingly deserted across Africa's most-populous nation.
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Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers have stayed away from work, in what could be the biggest strike in South Africaâs history.