S.Africa civil servants mount major strike
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South African civil servants staged an indefinite nationwide strike over pay on Friday, causing turmoil in hospitals and emptying classrooms in a mass action the government fears could hurt the economy.
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Civil servants and teachers are the latest groups to go on strike,  as protests against public sector job cuts continue.
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South Africans face more days of crippling strikes after the government and labour unions postponed till Friday talks aimed at resolving a bitter pay dispute.
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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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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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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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South African civil servants launched a countrywide strike on Friday, which union leaders declared a success but early participation appeared patchy.
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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's economic reforms.
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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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Two South African unions break ranks with the main labour movement, calling off their strike.
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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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Nigerian unions Wednesday launched a potentially crippling general strike over a steep hike in petroleum prices in one of the world&#39;s foremost oil exporters.
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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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An estimated 800,000 government workers demanding higher pay and more benefits walked off the job Thursday in what union leaders called the biggest strike in South African history.
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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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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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Thousands of South African workers marched on Wednesday in sympathy with striking civil servants in a show of force that highlighted the divide between the ruling African National Congress and its trade union allies.