South Africa: Govt Workers Strike Largest in a Decade
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Hundreds of thousands of South African public sector workers went on strike on Thursday in the largest industrial action witnessed in the last decade.
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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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A major clash is expected between the government and a civil servantsâ union Monday when the union pledges to launch a general strike as scheduled, despite government crackdowns on its move to demand full labor rights.
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As world oil prices again hit new highs, Nigeria's biggest labor federation launched a four-day nationwide strike Monday to protest the rising cost of fuel at home, shutting down huge swathes of Lagos, the country's largest city and its commercial center.
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Abuja - Tens of millions of Nigerian workers began yesterday 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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Almost 300,000 civil servants will be balloted for a one-day national strike against government plans to cut jobs. The proposed strike action would take place on 5 November and is in response to the proposed axing of over 100,000 jobs in the service.
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Tens of thousands of South African teachers, nurses and other public sector workers took to the country&#39;s streets yesterday to demand better wages in one of the biggest protests since the end of apartheid a decade ago.
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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.
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Defying tough warnings from the authorities, illegally unionized government employees went on an indefinite strike yesterday to protest the government&#39;s policy toward civil servants&#39; labor rights.
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South African trade unions called off a four-week public servants strike on Thursday, with most accepting a 7.5 percent general pay rise offered by government.
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The nationwide public sector strike which began yesterday morning has already affected some 24,000 would-be international travelers.
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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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South African police used stun grenades and a water cannon to disperse striking hospital workers in the port city of Durban on Thursday as a crippling public sector strike entered its seventh day.
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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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A one-day nationwide strike of civil service workers in South Africa has brought education to a standstill and affected many other state agencies.
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A UK-wide civil servants' strike over job cuts is expected to hit public services across the country.
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Most sustained and widespread protest against the military junta for more than 10 years.