Volkswagen workers launched rolling two-hour strikes Monday at nine plants across Germany to underscore their resistance to pay cuts and factory closures the company says are necessary to cope with a slack European auto market.
About 10,000 trainee doctors in South Korea entered their second month of a nationwide strike in late March, forcing hospitals into “emergency mode” and shutting down critical sectors, including emergency wards, Korean news agencies confirmed Wednesday and Thursday.
The French government will offer bonuses to civil servants deployed across the capital during the Olympics in a bid to avoid strikes.
South Korea filed its first legal complaint against striking doctors on the grounds that the doctors were engaging in criminal behavior.
Striking employees demanded better maintenance of the historic landmark, showing traces of rust, and salary hikes.
Some major hospitals in South Korea have canceled as many as 50 percent of scheduled surgeries between Tuesday and Friday as a result of a massive health worker walkout in which nearly 80 percent of trainee doctors have tendered resignations to their employers.
A labor union in Germany has called on ground staff for Lufthansa to walk off the job at seven airports on Tuesday.
The train drivers’ strike coincides with an unrelated one-week strike by farmers who have been blocking city streets and highways.
Thousands of doctors walked off the job on Wednesday, the start of a six-day strike that was set to be the longest in the history of the NHS.
The Eiffel Tower in Paris was closed to visitors and tourists on Wednesday because of a strike over contract negotiations.
President Joe Biden met with fellow socialist chief executive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil on Wednesday to announce a joint initiative on “workers’ rights” intended to promote the restructuring of their economies to fight alleged climate change.
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Actor Dax Shepard has claimed he is experiencing a “new fear” of going broke due to the ongoing Hollywood strikes, saying his existential dread includes the possibility of “[losing] everything.”
Tens of thousands of doctors in England walked off the job Friday, as their pay dispute with the government looks to continue.
Striking Hollywood workers are set to return to the bargaining table with the major studios and streamers Friday following more than 100 days of picketing that has brought TV and movie production to a standstill around the country.
Who is the biggest loser in the ongoing Hollywood labor strikes? The answer appears to be the people of California, with one estimate putting the local economy’s losses at $3 billion in the past 100 days — a figure that is almost certain to skyrocket as the historic strikes drag on with no end in sight.
Bureaucrats in Britain’s deep state threatened to go on strike over the government’s plan to deport illegal boat migrants to Rwanda.
An eight-hour strike brought Germany’s railways to a standstill on Friday morning, while walkouts also were underway at airports.
Doctors walked off the job on Tuesday for a four-day strike said to be most disruptive in history of the UK´s state health service.
The Louvre Museum was closed when its workers took part in the wave of French protest strikes against the govt’s pension reform plans.
Paris has been warned of a potential rat invasion amid the garbage collector strike which has seen tonnes of trash pile up on the streets.
The French government was thrown into chaos after it used a constitutional loophole to pass a rise to the retirement age without a vote.
The malodorous perfume of rotting food has begun escaping from some rubbish bags and overflowing bins as the strike goes on.
Demonstrators marched across France on Tuesday in a new round of protests against the government’s plan to raise the retirement age to 64.
Less than one third of teachers walked out of their classrooms this week as the vast majority of schools remaining open to some extent.
Berlin Airport canceled all flights Wednesday after ground staff went on strike to press their demands for higher pay.
LONDON (AP) – UK government ministers are meeting trade union leaders on Monday in a bid to end a wave of strikes that has hobbled the rail network and strained the overburdened health system.
Air travelers faced possible delays at U.K. airports Friday as government employees who check passports went on strike.
Britons should try and avoid getting drunk as the country’s NHS socialised healthcare service will struggle to look after them, a chief from the organisation has agreed.
Nigel Farage suggested that if the Conservative Party wants to regain credibility, it should apologise for over a decade of mismanagement.
Britain’s Border Force will abandon their posts at airports in strike during the Christmas holiday period, the PCS union announced this week.
Struggling workers in Britain should avoid striking over their poor pay situations in order to help the fight against Vladimir Putin, the Chairman of the Conservative Party has said.
English criminal barristers have begun an indefinite strike over pay and conditions, at a time when a stricken criminal justice system is already facing crippling backlogs.
As Europe enters into what looks to be a winter of political and social chaos, a trade union tsar in the UK has hinted that the country could see riots over the current cost of living crisis.
Britain´s railway network ground to a crawl on Wednesday in a dispute over jobs, pay and working conditions.
Millions of people in Britain faced disruption Thursday as railway staff staged their second national walkout this week
Britain faces the second of three national railway strikes Thursday after new negotiations between union and employers ended in deadlock.
A national strike has crippled the transport infrastructure of Belgium as around 70,000 people took to the street to protest the effects of inflation.
Unions in Britain are set to hold last-minute talks Monday amid fading hopes of averting the country´s biggest rail strikes for decades.
Rail strikes perpetrated by “militant” trade unions are due to paralyse the United Kingdom next week thanks to disagreements over worker pay.
