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Pakistani truckers of NATO goods go on strike
Truckers who carry supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan have gone on strike in northwest Pakistan to protest lower pay, inadequate security and ...
South African police arrest 50 in farm protest
South African police fired rubber bullets at striking farm workers who set up barricades and threw stones at motorists and security forces on ...
Time runs short to avert longshoremen's strike
In just a few days, a walkout by thousands of dock workers could bring commerce to a near standstill at every major port from Boston to Houston, ...
Sierra Leone diamond strike ends after 2 killed
Officials say a deadly strike at a Sierra Leone diamond mine is now over. Two people were killed in the violence at the mine in Koidu in eastern ...
Strike looms at East and Gulf Coast ports
Weeks after a critical West Coast port complex was crippled by a few hundred striking workers, the East Coast is bracing for a possible walkout ...
Greek public sector cutbacks trigger strike
Civil servants in Greece staged a 24-hour strike Wednesday, as thousands gathered to protest new pay cuts as well as suspensions that are expected to ...
Tunisian national strike averted after deal
Tunisia's government has reached an agreement with the country's leading labor union to avoid a nationwide strike over economic woes and power ...
Spain's Iberia unions cancel pre-Christmas strikes
Labor unions representing a majority of workers in Spain's Iberia airline have called off six days of strikes they had planned to stage before the ...
German airport security workers stage strike
A German union has called security personnel at airports around the country — including Frankfurt, the nation's busiest — out on a several-hour strike ...
TV technical union strikes against Pac-12 Networks
The union representing freelance technical employees who work on live sporting events for Pac-12 Networks went on strike Saturday. The International ...
Spain's luxury Parador hotels hit by 2-day strike
Employees at Spain's luxury Parador hotels, which are set in some of the country's most picturesque castles, monasteries and palaces, began a two-day ...
Riots hint at potential chaos in Tunisia's future
Five days of riots last week in a town in Tunisia's impoverished interior wounded hundreds of people and deepened the rift between the two most ...
Port strike could be prelude for dockworker talks
The end of one labor crisis at the nation's busiest port complex could be a prelude to another. The resolution of an eight-day walk-off by clerical ...
China bus drivers given bail after strike
Four Chinese immigrant bus drivers accused of inciting the city-state's first labor strike in 26 years have been granted bail in a case that ...
LA ports reopen after crippling 8-day strike ends
Port clerks returned to work Wednesday, jubilant in the knowledge that an eight-day strike that paralyzed the nation's busiest shipping complex had ...
Proposed LA port contract at a glance
Here are key provisions of the proposed contract between clerical workers and 14 shippers that ended an eight-day strike at the Los Angeles and Long ...
Employers: LA port workers to return Wednesday
Negotiators reached an agreement late Tuesday to end an eight-day strike that crippled the nation's largest port complex and prevented shippers from ...
Mayor: LA port strike to go to federal mediation
As cargo ships idled in the harbor or headed elsewhere, negotiators prepared Tuesday to return to the bargaining table with a federal mediator to try ...
LA mayor in talks to end 8-day port strike
The mayor of Los Angeles has joined talks aimed at ending an 8-day strike that's paralyzed the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Union spokesman ...
Union calls off strike in restive Tunisian town
A Tunisian labor union on Sunday suspended a nearly weeklong strike in an impoverished central town after the national government agreed to remove a ...
Contract talks adjourn amid 5th day of port strike
Contract talks between striking clerical workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and shippers have adjourned for the night. The walkout has ...
Strike slows activity at busy Calif. port complex
A strike dramatically slowed activity at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach — the nation's busiest cargo complex — despite renewed efforts to end ...
Talks to resume in LA-Long Beach harbors strike
Negotiators for employers and union workers at the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors will resume talks following a third day of a strike that has ...
Spain's Iberia workers to strike before Christmas
Labor unions representing most workers in Spain's Iberia airline say they will stage six days of strikes right before the Christmas holiday period to ...