South Africa metal workers strike
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South African engineering and metal workers down tools as part of an indefinite strike over pay.
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South Africaâs public-service unions, leading a nationwide strike, accuse President Thabo Mbeki of betraying the nationâs vast lower class.
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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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A general strike in Africa's top oil producer began on Wednesday after unions rejected government concessions on fuel prices as too little too late.
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The United Steelworkers union announced a strike Thursday at 16 Goodyear Tire &amp; Rubber Co. plants after failing to come to an agreement on a labor contract for 15,000 workers.
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LAGOS : Tens of millions of Nigerian workers began 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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Violent protests swept Guinea on Monday, killing at least nine people and disrupting the crucial bauxite mining sector as unions resumed a general strike against President Lansana Conte's government.
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Lagos, Nigeria, 10/11 - The four-day strike called by a coalition of Nigerian labour unions and civil society organisations to protest recent fuel price hike started Monday in the country.
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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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PRETORIA - An estimated 800000 public servants are expected to take to the streets today in what has been billed the biggest strike in South Africa&#39;s history.
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South African troops are deployed outside schools and hospitals, as a strike enters its second week.
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Unions and government officials are meeting in South Africa on Friday in an attempt to thrash out a pay deal to avert a new wave of strikes next week.
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South Africa's trade unions say they will call a general strike, unless the government improves its pay offer.
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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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Many schools are shut as thousands of South African public sector workers go on strike for higher wages.
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LAGOS, Nigeria - With world oil prices surging to new highs, union leaders in Nigeria imposed a four-day strike yesterday across this volatile West African nation to protest the rising cost of fuel at home, shutting down huge swathes of the commercial
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A nationwide strike went on Monday in Nigeria to protest against rising fuel prices, bringing much ofAfrica&#39;s top oil producer to a near standstill.