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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.

German government officials and labour unions reached a pay deal for more than 2.5 million public-sector workers, ending a lengthy dispute.

French President Emmanuel Macron said the pension bill he pushed through without a vote needs to be implemented by the “end of the year”.

There are fuel shortages across France as a result of strikes and blockades imposed at refineries over President Macron’s Pension reforms.

Paris saw its third straight night of violent chaos, with clashes breaking out between the police and the people and fires being set across the French capital, as President Macron claimed he “has no regrets” about sparking the largest mass mobilisation since the Yellow Vests after he used a loophole to pass through his retirement age raise without a vote.

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 seventh trade union-organised nationwide protest in France against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the French retirement age saw “angry” confrontations with police in Paris, as the legislation cleared a key hurdle in the Senate.

Demonstrators marched across France on Tuesday in a new round of protests against the government’s plan to raise the retirement age to 64.

PARIS (AP) – Roads blocked, oil refineries disrupted, planes grounded and trains halted – unions are threatening to shut down France’s economy this week in what they hope is their toughest riposte yet to President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age.

Less than one third of teachers walked out of their classrooms this week as the vast majority of schools remaining open to some extent.

The government of South Korea reportedly sent thousands of police officers to descend on the headquarters of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), a coalition of labor organizations, on Wednesday in an extensive national security raid union officials said was ongoing as of Thursday.

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.

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.

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.

A trade union official was attacked, robbed and kidnapped by a group of migrants in a makeshift camp in the Apulia region of Italy.

The left-wing leader of a rail union in Britain has cited EU influence in Ukraine, as well as the country’s alleged use of “Nazi imagery”, as leading to Russia’s invasion.

LONDON (AP) – Thousands of UK train drivers walked off the job Saturday in a strike over jobs, pay and conditions, scuppering services across much of the country. The action was the latest in a spreading series of strikes by British workers seeking substantial raises to offset soaring prices for food and fuel.

Millions of people in Britain faced disruption Thursday as railway staff staged their second national walkout this week

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.

Rail strikes perpetrated by “militant” trade unions are due to paralyse the United Kingdom next week thanks to disagreements over worker pay.

A union representing Border Force employees is joining a legal fight to stop the government from having them halt illegal boat migrants at sea and return them to safe, first-world France. 

Italian trade unions have criticised the country’s vaccine passport, saying it will force unvaccinated union members to pay money to go to work.

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) – Hundreds of Bulgarian coal miners and energy workers staged a protest on Wednesday to demand government guarantees for their jobs amid bids by the European Union to close mines and reduce carbon emissions.

The Greek hospital workers union POEDIN has called for a six-hour strike on Tuesday to protest mandatory vaccinations for healthcare workers.

Britain’s Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called for Tommy Robinson to be banned not only from social media, but from “public spaces” as well.

A Labour MP has called for a “general strike” to overthrow the Tory government and potentially allow for a second referendum that could block Brexit.

A Palestinian aid group that employs and supports the leader of an Islamic terrorist group in Gaza is being funded by Australian taxpayers, it has been alleged.

Three of the UK’s largest trades unions are threatening a winter of “illegal” strike action if the public sector pay cap is not lifted for the entire sector.

Labour would leave the Single Market, Jeremy Corbyn has claimed, admitting that European Union (EU) freedom of movement rules have damaged workers’ conditions.

In modern society, trade unions risk losing their “prophetic character” and becoming just like the institutions they ought to be criticizing, Pope Francis told a group of union delegates Wednesday morning, adding that “corruption has entered the hearts of some trade unionists.”

Labour’s hard-left leadership is using the fallout of the Grenfell Tower disaster to agitated for private homes of the wealthy to be seized while calling for a populist uprising to bring down the government, in tactics reminiscent of the Venezuelan socialist revolutionary Hugo Chavez.

Members of Stand up to Racism and Trade Unionists for Calais gathered outside the French Embassy in London last night, to protest “in solidarity” with the migrants at Calais, following announcements that The Jungle migrant camp is to be dismantled.

A union protest outside Byron Burgers in London described as a “huge demo” by organisers attracted fewer than one hundred protesters.

Young people have the most to lose from staying in the European Union (EU) and must vote to leave to secure their future, trade unionists have warned. Pointing to the eye-watering levels of youth unemployment found within some member states

(AFP) – Britain’s major trade unions have finally come out in support of the European Union, judging that fears of a post-Brexit economic fallout outweigh concerns about the bloc’s faults in promoting workers’ rights. Unions have kept a low profile