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Submitted by pirate on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 19:13.
 Libcom.org Aug. 20, 2008
Tens of thousands of striking council workers disrupted public services across Scotland today while Scottish civil servants also struck for their own pay dispute. read more »
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 19:11.
By Inquirer Bureaus Philippine Daily Inquirer July 29, 2008
MANILA, Philippines—A Central Luzon-wide transport strike, effigy-burning and protest rallies in key urban centers outside Metro Manila erupted Monday, even before President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo could deliver her State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Congress. read more »
Submitted by pirate on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 06:38.
 Libcom.org July 23, 2008
A round-up of recent strike activity in Iran, including the car industry and agriculture. read more »
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 21:23.
July 22, 2008 Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
A week after coffee company Starbucks announced it would shutter over 600 locations nationwide, workers at the company’s Mall of America store walked off the job in protest, and joined a national union, a union spokesman confirmed. read more »
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 07/16/2008 - 03:50.
 by Kyoko Hasegawa Tue July 15,
TOKYO (AFP) - Thousands of Japanese fishermen rallied in Tokyo on Tuesday to protest against soaring fuel costs as boats across the country sat idle for a one-day strike to draw attention to the industry's woes.
Warning that soaring oil prices could put them out of business, about 3,600 fishermen gathered in a park, demanding state subsidies and emergency help, organisers said. read more »
Submitted by pirate on Mon, 07/14/2008 - 21:14.
 July 14, 2008
SACRAMENTO (AP) -- As many as 8,500 University of California employees are on the picket lines in a protest over wages.
The strike by housekeeping, cafeteria and security workers comes despite a judge's restraining order. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees says the strike is still legal because the union properly notified university officials.
The union says its workers' wages are lower than those paid by other colleges. read more »
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 22:42.
 Libcom.org June 25, 2008
Bangladeshi workers in clothing sweatshop in Athens, Greece, were attacked by company thugs for refusing to work on Sunday. When their co-workers walked out in solidarity, the company fired 120 out of 180 of the working force. In response the workers have sealed the factory off forcing the company to withdraw the lay-offs and negotiate. read more »
Submitted by pirate on Sat, 06/21/2008 - 20:04.
June 20th, 2008 Libcom.org 
A total of 330 strikes have been recorded so far this year and all of them were illegal because they were not led by the trade union and didn’t follow the law, reported the Vietnam National Confederation of Labour at a conference in Hanoi on June 16-17. read more »
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 23:03.
 By VOA News 30 May 2008
Thousands of Spanish, Portuguese and Italian fishermen have launched strikes, following the example of their French colleagues as they protested escalating fuel prices.
In Madrid, fishermen gathered outside the Environment, Agriculture and Fishing Ministry, where they handed out more than 20 tons of fresh fish free to passers-by. read more »
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 05/11/2008 - 22:24.
May 11, 2008
PATRAS, Greece (AFP)--Hundreds of protestors demonstrated in the southern Greek Peloponnese region to protest the working conditions of migrant farm labourers, police sources and union organisers reported.
More than a thousand people, including members of the communist-affiliated Workers Militant Front, or PAME, and several of the seasonal workers themselves, attended the demonstrations, which were called by PAME.
The protests took place in several towns in the region, including Nea Manolada and Vardas, Nikos Gontikas, a PAME official told AFP.
It was in Nea Manolada that seasonal workers held a three-day strike in early April, the first time that they had staged this kind of action. read more »
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 18:00.
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 22:00.
Libcom.org April 23, 2008
Workers at France's seven biggest ports went on strike today to protest a government plan to sell dock-equipment management to private companies and take staff off public payrolls.
Sixty-seven vessels including thirty-nine tankers stranded at the harbor's entrance. Government officials, port managers and union representatives are yet to tally the costs of the strike. A 17-day walkout last year in Marseille alone cost Manutention Generale Mediterraneenne, the port's biggest cargo- handler, €1.5 million ($2.4 million). read more »
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 18:20.
Tehran – April 13, 2008 kargaran.org
Around 7.30pm last night, anti-riot police smashed the gates and climbed over the walls of Kian Tyre factory, in the outskirts of Tehran, to forcefully evict hundreds of striking workers. Scores were beaten up and arrested, with some needing hospital treatment. read more »
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:41.
 April 5, 2008
CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB ) - - The men and women who walked off their jobs at American Axle say they'll strike as long as they have to. read more »
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 04/02/2008 - 20:31.
By VU TIEN HONG – April 1, 2008
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — More than 20,000 Vietnamese workers have walked off the job at a Taiwanese-owned plant that makes shoes for Nike Inc., demanding higher pay to keep pace with skyrocketing prices, officials said Tuesday.
The workers at Ching Luh plant, in southern Long An province, went on strike Monday. They want a 20 percent bump to their $59 average monthly salaries along with better lunches at the company cafeteria, said Nguyen Van Thua, an official with the province's trade union. read more »
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 20:47.
 March 18, 2008
DUBAI (AFP) - Around 1,500 workers in the United Arab Emirates staged a violent protest for higher wages on Tuesday, setting dozens of vehicles on fire and damaging property, police said. read more »
Submitted by pirate on Sat, 03/08/2008 - 22:33.
 MBABANE, 6 March 2008 (IRIN ) - A bloody week of the worst labour strife in a decade has exposed cracks in the Swazi government's poverty-alleviation plan of creating thousands of low-paying jobs by promoting a textile industry.
In the strike action, which began on 3 March, workers participating in peaceful marches to demand better salaries have been teargassed and beaten by police, and at least a dozen have reportedly been injured. More than 16,000 workers, most of them women, have been affected by the strike action. read more »
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 12:10.
Attack on Pensions by Right Wing Government Resisted
Thomas Riggins
“Options in favor of the European Union are incompatible with any concept of measures in favor of the popular strata”—A.Papariga, General Secretary, KKE
Two days ago the Greek working class closed down Greece for 24 hours to protest another attempt by the right wing capitalist state, run by Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, to mess with the pension system.
Karamanlis wants to reduce benefits and extend the working age past 65 (men) and 60 (women) despite the fact that he won re-election last year after pledging to do neither.
The typical politicians ploy of promising one thing to get elected and then reneging. read more »
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