| 27 Dec 11 | Protest: Train engineers on strike over the holidays – Portugal -- The Portuguese Train Engineers’ Union called a four-day strike over the holiday weekend cancelling most national rail services over December 23-25 and January 1. The strike also called for an overtime boycott by engineers from December 23 through the end of January. ( Laborstart ) |
| 27 Dec 11 | Day 6: Rajasthan doctors continue strike -- Jaipur, Dec 26 (IBNS): The Rajasthan government arrested more than 400 doctors under essential services act as the conflict between doctors and the authorities continue for the sixth consecutive day on Monday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 27 Dec 11 | Histadrut unhappy with court ruling on strike -- Sources identified with the Histadrut (General Federation of Labor in Israel) today criticized the decision by National Labor Court President Judge Nili Arad to set the hearing on the Histadrut's petition to renew the strike on behalf of contract workers for January 8. The sources said that the late date was liable to weaken the Histadrut's bargaining position in the talks, which will probably resume in a few days. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Dec 11 | Wapda workers observe strike against privatisation plan -- Rawalpindi: Workers of Wapda observed a countrywide strike here on Wednesday. As a mark of protest, employees boycotted the official work and took out a big vehicular rally on the Benazir Bhutto Road to express their resentment over the proposed plan of the government to privatise all power units. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Dec 11 | Belgian Government Workers Strike To Protest Pension Cuts -- BRUSSELS (Dow Jones)--Government workers across Belgium went on strike Thursday to protest pension cuts planned by new socialist Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo aimed at bringing the country's budget deficit in line with European Union rules and keeping the government out of the vortex of the euro-zone debt crisis. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Dec 11 | Government workers strike -- ROME (AP) - Thousands of government workers staged strikes Monday and joined demonstrations across Italy to protest tax and pension changes that are part of the government's austerity package. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Dec 11 | Police go on “white strike” at crossings with Kosovo -- Independent Trade Union of Police members are staging a protest at the administrative crossings with Kosovo in the municipality of Bujanovac. The police have decided to express their satisfaction by stepping up control of vehicles. ( Laborstart ) |
| 19 Dec 11 | Pilots strike forces flight cancellations in Spain -- MADRID -- Spanish airline Iberia canceled a third of its flights Sunday because of a strike by pilots fearing job losses when company planes are diverted for use by Iberia's planned new budget carrier. ( Laborstart ) |
| 19 Dec 11 | Bulgarian railway workers call off strike -- The trade unions and BDZ's management said they had reached an agreement on a new labour contract that will ensure the salaries of the workers and also allow for reforms in the ailing railway. A final deal will be signed on Monday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 19 Dec 11 | Doctors’ strike exposed rot in the health sector -- The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union called off the doctors’ strike on Wednesday last week after some confusion on Tuesday about whether the strike was on or off. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Dec 11 | University staff strike over taxes -- HEBRON (Ma'an) -- University staff decided to strike from 10 a.m. Wednesday to protest the government's failure to abolish taxes on their end-of-service pay. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Dec 11 | Bulgarian State Railway Co Messes Up Workers' Strike -- The situation with the general strike at the Bulgarian State Railways BDZ, which has been going on for 21 days, has descended into a messy state. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Dec 11 | Proud Indonesian Miners’ End Strike with Freeport-McMoRan -- An agreement was signed in Jakarta today between PT Freeport Indonesia Workers’ Union (SP KEP SPSI) and management of the world’s largest gold and second largest copper mining complex – Grasberg in Papua province – that will end a 94-day strike on Saturday, 17 December. The strike pitted a low-wage but determined and enlightened workforce against a global extractive resource company, US-based Freeport-McMoRan that has Grasberg at top of its massive revenue stream. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Dec 11 | Lebanon unions vow crippling strike -- BEIRUT: Labor unions are gearing up for confrontation with the government over wages, pledging a crippling general strike, roadblocks and demonstrations on Dec. 27 as teachers prepare to strike across the country Thursday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Dec 11 | Bulgarian state railways’ workers to strike until 4 p.m. again -- Sofia. Bulgarian state railways’ workers continue their strike for a 14th day, announced Petar Bunev, chairperson of the trade union of railway workers with the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB), speaking with FOCUS News Agency. ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Dec 11 | Tomada asks unions to avoid collective bargaining talks -- Labour Minister Carlos Tomada suggested unions “to avoid talking that much about collective bargains”, but also assured that “there are enormous coincidences between the government and the CGT Labour Confederation.” Thus, the official downplayed the late fuzz generated around 2012 collective bargains and recommended unions to avoid talking about them as “we still have four months ahead before negotiations start.” ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Dec 11 | Australian unions to investigate human and labour rights abuses in Fiji following ILO intervention -- Australian unions welcome moves today by the International Labour Organisation to intervene to safeguard human and labour rights in Fiji, ahead of a delegation heading to the island nation next week to investigate abuses of workplace rights first hand. ( Laborstart ) |
| 06 Dec 11 | Women hotel workers in Cambodia fight illegal mass firings -- Workers unfairly terminated for trade union organizing at the five star Angkor Village Hotel and Angkor Village Botanical Resort Hotel in Siem Reap, Cambodia, are fighting for their rights, their jobs and their union - and need your support. ( Laborstart ) |
| 06 Dec 11 | The Search for an Era of Labor Peace -- When the Boeing Company announced its far-reaching, precedent-setting agreement with the machinists’ union last week, all the talk was about the ushering in of a new era of labor peace between a company and union that were long known for their horrendous labor relations record. That record included five strikes since 1977, among them a 58-day walkout in 2008 that cost Boeing $1.8 billion. ( Laborstart ) |
| 06 Dec 11 | Strike action shows the broad range of worker dissatisfaction across China -- Protests have erupted over the last week in a wide range of industries and locations across China, indicating that worker unrest is far from confined to just the manufacturing heartland of the Pearl River Delta. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Dec 11 | Strikers ordered back to work -- The Phnom Penh Municipal Court ordered on Tuesday that workers striking at Cambo Handsome 1 return to work within 48 hours and banned them from striking in front of the garment factory, in the capital’s Dankgor district. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Dec 11 | Sacked workers of Hyundai protest, arrested -- CHENNAI: Twenty-three sacked employees of Hyundai Motor India plant in Sriperumbudur were arrested on Wednesday morning after they staged a protest in front of the factory gate demanding reinstatement. The arrested were released on bail in the evening. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Dec 11 | Factory workers test labour freedoms -- Factory workers in Burma have become the first to test the limits of labour freedoms in the country following new laws that allow union formation for the first time in nearly half a century. ( Laborstart ) |
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