S.Africa unions expected to suspend strike
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Unions representing hundreds of thousands of striking South Africa's civil servants are expected to suspend their protest after last night's wage talks with the government, union officials said on Thursday.
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LAGOS, 15 November (IRIN) - Nigeria&#39;s powerful trade unions on Monday called off a general strike planned for the next day after the government, in an eleventh-hour move, offered an almost 10-percent cut in the price of domestic fuels.
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South African unions turned down a revised offer of a 7.5 percent pay rise on Friday, ensuring that the country&#39;s biggest strike since the end of apartheid will go into a fourth week.
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A power crisis forced the suspension of mining operations for a fourth day running in South Africa on Monday as unions expressed fears the halt in production will lead to large-scale job losses.
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Abuja - Nigerian unions have threatened to extend their nationwide general strike, which entered its third day on Wednesday, continuing concerns about production in Africa&#39;s biggest oil-exporting nation.
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Striking public sector workers in South Africa warned Monday that government threats to sack health workers would derail efforts to resolve an increasingly bitter pay dispute.
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Two 48-hour strikes to take place next month as part of long-running dispute over pay and jobs, union leaders say.
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The chief of Nigeria's main labor organization vowed that a four-day nationwide strike to protest fuel price hikes will go ahead Monday, and workers in the country's crude oil industry said they would join the work stoppage.
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A four-day general strike in Nigeria is expected to end shortly, with neither the unions nor government giving ground.
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions&#39; fact-finding mission to Zimbabwe will go ahead despite a ban by the Zimbabwean government, Cosatu president Willie Madisha said on Monday.
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South Africa's biggest gold and platinum mining firms suspend production because of recent power cuts.
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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 powerful trade unions threatened on Saturday to mobilize their members against the "political prosecution" of African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma.
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Nigeria's main oil unions said that their members will join next week's planned nationwide general strike and warned of disruptions in the country's exports of crude to the world market.
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Oil workers in a key Nigerian petroleum center said they would go ahead with a strike planned Monday unless two expatriate oil executives blamed for cutting worker benefits heed their call to leave the country.
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A general strike in Nigeria which has raised fears over oil supply from the world's seventh largest exporter, will likely end its first phase on Thursday, union leaders said.
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afrol News, 16 September - South Africa&#39;s civil service workers today widely followed the trade union&#39;s one-day strike order and paralysed many state services.