strike actions

School bus drivers are still on strike, but a meeting scheduled for Monday at the mayor’s Gracie Mansion may provide a breakthrough in stalled negotiations.

Elementary teachers in Toronto and several other school district boards will hold a one-day strike on Tuesday.

Newsrooms were quiet in Greece Wednesday, as journalists under the Panhellenic Journalists’ Union (POESY) walked out to protest austerity measures that would affect their health care funds.

South African mine operator AngloGold Ashanti, the world’s third-largest producer of gold, said it started firing some 12,000 striking workers.

Anglo American Platinum, the world’s largest producer of platinum, fired around 12,000 workers who were on strike at one of its operations in South Africa.

The red picket signs and the fists in the air are gone from Chicago’s streets. Students have been back in school since Sept. 19 and will have to spend some holiday time in school to make up for missed days due to the early-September strike by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU).

Coastguards and driving examiners will begin a series of strikes in June to heighten awareness of job, pay, and pension losses.

With only days to go before Carnival celebrations, Rio de Janeiro police and firefighters ended a strike for higher wages on Tuesday

A wave of large-scale strikes and protests in China during the first week of 2012 leads experts to predict that the Chinese communist regime will be facing increasing pressure from millions of disgruntled farmers, workers, and other disenfranchised groups this year.

Air strikes against Libya should slow in the coming days, said Defense Secretary Gates after an American warplane crashed in northeast Libya Monday night.

Protests and demonstrations in Egypt continue and the government has tried to shut down communications within the country. However, Google has provided a Twitter service for citizens to help them prepare the biggest strike yet.

Spanish air traffic controllers spontaneous walkout forces government takeover.

Strikes and protests have become common-place in Greece. Despite the grim situation, many people have adopted a more positive role-despite the threat of protest violence.

French airlines are bracing for a more strikes as labor unions continue nationwide protests Sarkozy’s pension reform bill.

rench air travel has suffered significantly since Tuesday morning when some air traffic controllers went on strike.

Strikes and protests have become a weekly occurrence in Greece.

Soaring prices in China have caused workers at manufacturing plants throughout the country to go on strike for higher pay.

Four hundred hotel workers at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco walked off their job early Tuesday morning to protest.

UK Briefs : 2 June 2010