Thousands of mainly Asian expatriate workers in the United Arab Emirates have ended a strike they began at the weekend in a rare stoppage aimed at improving their conditions, their employer said Wednesday.
Gardeners, waiters, cooks and other workers at Spain’s royal palaces will go on strike for the first time over Easter to protest against salary cuts and longer working hours, their union said Wednesday.
BBC journalists staged a 24-hour strike on Monday in protest at job cuts, preventing the transmission of the flagship Today morning news program and several other television and radio shows.
Workers of one of the country’s biggest radio networks have ended a strike that had crippled the operations of one of the network’s stations here and forced its owners to operate another one sparingly.
A strike is crippling the operations of two radio stations here belonging to one of the country’s biggest radio networks, forcing the stations’ management to cut one station off the air and operate the other sparingly.
Workers switched off the transmitters of two radio stations of Radyo Mo Nationwide in Davao City early Tuesday to protest what they claimed was the management’s refusal to discuss salary increases and a package of benefits demanded by the employees.
About 15,000 Peruvian doctors employed by the health ministry went on strike Friday, demanding salary increases and secure government funding, the Medical Federation announced.
Spaniards staged a general strike and took to the streets Thursday in anger at labor reforms, spending cuts and soaring unemployment, prompting scuffles with police.
Militant groups here failed to paralyze public transport in the Bicol region as only a small number of public utility vehicles in the provinces of Albay, Sorsogon and Camarines Sur took part in a one-day strike on Saturday, the Office of Civil Defense said.
Rio state police officers voted at a rally Thursday night to begin a strike that could prompt violence during the globe’s biggest Carnival bash in spite of government approval of a pay raise earlier in the day.
CANBERRA, Australia—An Australian court early Monday ended the strikes and employee lockout that had abruptly grounded Qantas Airways and stranded tens of thousands of passengers worldwide. The airline planned to speak soon on when flights will resume. The arbitration court heard more than 14 hours of testimony from the airline, the Australian government and unions [...]
ATHENS—Public transport ground to a halt in Athens Monday and tons of garbage piled up on the streets as workers downed tools against the debt-laden government’s austerity plans. With transport workers on a 24-hour strike against salary cuts and layoffs, the capital was left without metro, bus or tram services. Only an inter-suburban train was [...]
Embattled carrier Qantas was forced to cancel or delay more than 70 flights on Monday as aircraft engineers were to walk off the job for four hours in the latest round of strike action to hit the airline.
