Thousands of South Korean public servants strike work:
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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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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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JOHANNESBURG, June 1 -- Public-sector workers staged a nationwide strike Friday, closing down schools, forcing hospital patients to return home and leaving only minimum staffing in prisons.
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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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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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Thousands of postal staff across NI are taking part in industrial action over pay and restructuring plans.
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Almost 300,000 British civil servants will be balloted for a one-day national strike on November 5 against government plans to cut more than 100,000 civil jobs, their union said Sunday.
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Workers at South Korea's largest automaker Hyundai Motor will go on strike Friday to oppose proposed government labor reform legislaton, union leaders said.
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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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South Korean public sector workers launched an unprecedented strike setting them on a collision course with the government of President Roh Moo-hyun, which has vowed to get tough on what it calls an illegal action.
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Tens of millions of Nigerian workers began a nationwide strike over rising fuel prices as President Olusegun Obasanjo's sought to draw union leaders into talks and world oil prices soared.
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A powerful South Korean labor union said  Sunday hundreds of thousands of its members will strike from  next week against a bill that aims to curb union militancy and  allow companies to hire more temporary workers.
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Â· Unanimous backing for action on public sector pay  Â· Postal workers announce new wave of disruption
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Nearly 300,000 civil servants are to be balloted on the first strike throughout Whitehall for more than a decade, action which could bring virtually all government services to a halt.
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PARIS, Oct. 18 -- French public transportation workers staged a one-day strike on Thursday, bringing rail, bus and subway service across the country to a standstill and delivering a vivid warning to President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose plans to reduce generous but costly public pensions face stiff...
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Workers at South Korea&#39;s largest carmaker Hyundai Motor have voted to go on strike this week, a company spokesman said Saturday.
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A powerful South Korea labor group said it would call hundreds of thousands of its members to strike next week against a government bill aimed at stopping union militancy and securing flexible job markets.