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  • U.K. Civil Servants Strike, Shutting 200 Departments
    1 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Caroline Alexander
    Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) — U.K. civil servants began a 24-hour strike today, with 200,000 people protesting against job cuts, pay awards and the running of public services, in what may be the biggest walkout by government workers in almost 26 years.
    Those on strike today aren’t faceless bureaucrats or high-flying mandarins but people at the heart of public services providing the everyday things we take for granted,’’ Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and (…)

  • Wal-Mart factory workers assaulted, fired for going on strike
    1 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Action urgently needed: Contact Wal-Mart now!
    Maquila Solidarity Network
    Workers producing clothes for Wal-Mart at the Korean-owned Chong Won Fashion garment factory in the Philippines desperately need your support to put a stop to their employers’ attempt to destroy their union through violence, mass firings and intimidation.
    This morning (September 27), a combined force of municipal and free trade zone police and private security guards attacked the strikers who were peacefully (…)

  • ISLAMABAD: Complete shutter down strike observed throughout the country
    4 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ISLAMABAD: Complete shutter down strike was observed throughout the country, whereas partial strike was observed on Friday in Punjab and Peshawar on joint opposition strike call to protest against the killing of Former Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti and government policies.
    Complete wheel jam and shutter down strike was observed throughout Balochistan against the killing of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti and amendments in the controversial Hudood Ordinance.
    All the major (…)

  • Basra Oil Workers Strike Could Resume Sunday
    2 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Kathlyn Stone
    Oil pipeline workers in Basra, Iraq, will resume their strike as early as Sunday if authorities do not meet the remaining demands of workers, the Federation of Workers’ Councils and Unions in Iraq said Thursday.
    About 500 oil and gas workers went on strike for 48 hours beginning Aug. 22 for higher pay, overtime, timely pay and ambulances at the work site.
    The oil ministry agreed to raise the salaries of workers, which average about $200 a month, but did not commit (…)

  • Chile copper miners’ strike ends
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A strike at the world’s largest privately-owned copper mine has ended after workers voted in a secret ballot.
    Union members at Chile’s Escondida mine accepted new contracts, so ending a 25-day dispute, but it will take up to a week for full production to resume.
    Workers voted more than 13 to one to accept a new 40-month contract, with a 5% wage rise and a $17,000 bonus.
    La Escondida, owned by Anglo-Australian company BHP Billiton, produces 8% of the world’s copper supply.
    During the (…)

  • From Teachers’ Strike Towards Dual Power The Revolutionary Surge in Oaxaca
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    From Teachers’ Strike Towards Dual Power The Revolutionary Surge in Oaxaca
    By GEORGE SALZMAN
    Oaxaca, Mexico.
    Oaxaca shares, with Chiapas and Guerrero, the distinction of being the one of the three poorest states of Mexico. These three bastions of extreme poverty, albeit among the richest states of Mexico in natural resources, lie along the Pacific coastline in southeastern Mexico. Oaxaca is flanked to its east by Chiapas and to its west by Guerrero. Its population, about 3.5 million (…)

  • Iraq Oil Workers on Strike
    25 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 23—Hundreds of oil company employees went on strike Tuesday for higher pay, AP said.
    The job action cut supplies to power stations and factories as Iraq faces its worst fuel shortage since Saddam Hussein’s 2003 ouster.
    About 350 workers from the Iraqi Pipes and Lines Company in the southern city of Basra and another 200 in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, walked off the job Tuesday morning, according to the head of the workers’ union.
    The workers (…)

  • Protest paralyzes Mexico’s Oaxaca
    23 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Protest paralyzes Mexico’s Oaxaca
    AP , OAXACA, MEXICO Wednesday, Aug 23, 2006,
    Normally vibrant and thronged with tourists, picturesque Oaxaca City has ground to a virtual halt as protesters armed with pipes, machetes and clubs roam the cobblestone streets — burning buses, seizing media outlets and blocking highways and bus stations.
    The three-month-old protest — now almost an insurrection against state Governor Ulises Ruiz — made many in Oaxaca afraid to leave their homes on (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan on Hunger Strike at the White House
    5 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “We’ve marched, held vigils, lobbied Congress, camped out at Bush’s ranch, we’ve even gone to jail, now it’s time to do more”
    “This war is a crime,” the icon mother told a crowd of clapping, cheering protesters.
    “We represent millions of Americans who withdraw their support from this government.”
    Millions of American have just watched in disgust as our congress ignored the will of the American people and voted against setting a timetable for withdrawing our troops from Iraq. Who (…)

  • Hunger Strike at the White House starting July 4 to End the Iraq War
    1 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On July 3, 2006, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, Global Exchange and Gold Star Families for Peace will announce a historic hunger strike against the war in Iraq. At 5pm, they will sit down in front of the White House to eat their last meal and hold a press conference before beginning the fast at the same location in the morning of July 4 at 10am.
    “We’ve marched, held vigils, lobbied Congress, camped out at Bush’s ranch. We’ve even gone to jail. Now it’s time to do more,” says peace mom Cindy (…)