Civil servants strike over jobs
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Hundreds of thousands of civil servants go on strike on Friday in protest at looming job cuts.
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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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By David Hughes  Civil servants have been ordered to destroy documents about expensive Government IT projects, it was claimed yesterday.
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Public service staff stage a march in the chancellor's constituency in protest at planned job cuts.
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Unions consider strike calls over government plans to raise public sector workers' pension age.
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Prison officers in England and Wales strike in a protest over pay, the association representing them says.
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Unrest hits output; workers fight plan to slash 12,000 positions, say losses due to mismanagement.
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Thousands of South African public sector workers start a one-day strike, protesting against the government's latest wage offer.
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South Africa's civil service strike broadened on Wednesday as other union workers walked out, piling more pressure on the government in a dispute stoking political tensions in Africa's largest economy.
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British 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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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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Postal staff will stage another 24-hour national strike next week, after a similar stoppage last month in a row over pay and the scrapping of thousands of jobs, union bosses said Thursday.
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Thousands of angry civil servants turned up the pressure on the beleaguered Hamas government Wednesday, marching to demand payment of overdue wages and winning Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' blessing for a major strike next week.
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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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British civil servants were staging their biggest strike in a decade, with union officials predicting that around 200,000 people would take part in the one-day stoppage.
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The French capital endured new commuter disruption Tuesday as civil servants and teachers said they would join train drivers fighting government plans to cut pension benefits and other cost-cutting measures.
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Tens of thousands of South African public sector workers take to the streets to demand pay rises.