Thousands of prison officers in England and Wales go on strike
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Thousands of prison officers across England and Wales started a 24-strike over pay Wednesday, forcing jails, many of them seriously overcrowded, to lock offenders in their cells.
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About 1,000 Palestinian prisoners rioted at an Israeli desert prison early Monday, attacking guards, torching the tents where they are housed and leaving 30 people injured, a prison spokesman said.
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Around 15,000 police officers are expected to march past the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday as they protest against a pay deal they claim is unfair.
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The number of prisoners in England and Wales has risen to a record high of almost 81,000, the Prison Service said today.
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More than 6,000 inmates at 24 prisons around Romania took part in hunger strikes and other protests Sunday to demand amnesty and better living conditions.
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The Chief Inspector of Probation says demands on staff mean many offenders are not being monitored properly.
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More than 80 reputed mobsters in jail or on the run after major transatlantic strike against mafia
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Thousands of workers at seven of Britain's busiest airports have voted to strike in a dispute over pensions, their union said on Friday.
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The Chief Inspector of Probation says demands on staff mean many offenders are not monitored properly.
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PRETORIA : Hundreds of thousands of teachers, nurses, police and other public sector employees walked off the job across South Africa to demand better wages in one of the biggest strikes since the end of apartheid a decade ago.
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Thousands gather to march in South African cities as trade unions hold a general strike aimed at a "total shutdown".
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Prison maintenance workers stage a 48-hour strike to protest against a pay deal unions describe as 'insulting'.
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Thousands yesterday responded to a call from several unions to join a rally organised by the General Workers' Union to protest against the government's plan to cut the number of public holidays.
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Teachers, tax collectors, railway workers and other public servants went on strike Thursday in France to protest job losses and demand higher pay.
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The government's 'scramble to build new prisons' threatens to move the UK towards a system of 'large-scale penal containment' which would mean worse as well as more jails, the chief inspector of prisons warns today
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Thousands of civil servants marched in cities across South Africa Thursday in a one-day strike over wages seen as a test of will between the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and its labor allies.
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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.