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Kenya Health Unions Continue Strike as Government Disregards Agreement [PSI] 19-04-2024
Greece Unions in Greece call widespread strikes, seeking a return to bargaining rights axed during bailouts [CP] 18-04-2024
Belarus / Global 19 April 2024: Day of Action for Trade Union Rights and Democracy in Belarus [Salidarnast] 18-04-2024
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1889 Argentina Feminist and worker activist Juana Rouco Buela was born in Spain. Moving to Buenos Aires, she organised female sugar workers, took part in tenants' and workers' strikes, was deported but returned and never gave up.
1905 France 10,000 at Vardelle's funeral in Limoges, "victim of the capitalist regime", "our brother assassinated on April 17 by French bullets".
1920 Italy The general strike paralyzed the Turin region for a week, Lombardy joins the movement. In Boulogne, Pisa, Florence and Lucca, railway workers block military convoys and in Genoa, trains and boats.
1924 Russia The Kronstadt revolt was crushed by the Red Army commanded by Trotsky: 4,836 sailors were deported, 6,528 arrested, 2,168 executed. 10,000 dead on the Red Army side in repeated failures to retake the city.
1947 Senegal A strike on the eve of a visit by the President of the French Republic obtained an agreement on a unified framework for railway workers, and the maintenance of 3,000 jobs. The employers then thwarted the negotiations, causing a wave of strikes.
1968 Italy While 6,000 textile workers were on strike in Valdagno, scabs were snuck into the factory under police protection. Strikers fought 1000 police and toppled the bronze statue of the factory’s founder.
1974 Canada In a targeted campaign for pay equity, postal workers begin a seven-day illegal strike that wins women postal code machine operators the same pay as male postal clerks.[more]
2003 Nigeria Striking workers occupy 4 offshore oil rigs.
2023 Canada After more than a year of bargaining, 155,000 public service workers across 30 federal government departments go out on a successful strike, marking one of the largest strikes by federal employees in Canadian history. [more]
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Australia / South Australia AFL Showdown train commuters face major disruptions as union threatens 24-hour strike [ABC] 19-04-2024
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Belarus ITUC general secretary called for the release of trade union leaders in Belarus [salidarnast.info] 19-04-2024
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Belize CWU wants Labour Complaints Tribunal to respond to them [5 Great Belize Television] 18-04-2024
Canada / British Columbia Another transit worker labour dispute in Metro Vancouver is brewing [Urbanized] 19-04-2024
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Europe Unions strengthen network for good industrial jobs in the offshore wind value chain [Industriall Europe] 19-04-2024
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Global ITUC Just Transition Centre wins leading sustainability award [ITUC] 19-04-2024
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Greece Unions call widespread strikes, seeking a return to bargaining rights axed during bailouts [The Associated Press] 18-04-2024
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Haiti / Caribbean Jean Bonald G. Fatal, Jacques Belzin: “You can’t eradicate the problem of armed gangs in Haiti with weapons alone. Our young people need jobs” [Equal Times] 19-04-2024
India / West Bengal Political Campaigns Have Overshadowed Workers' Plight in the Tea Gardens [The Wire] 19-04-2024
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Ireland CWU threatens industrial action at DPD Ireland [RTE] 19-04-2024
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Italy Meloni ‘turning Italian broadcaster into megaphone for far right’ [The Guardian] 18-04-2024
Kenya Healthcare workers' strike persists as gov't and unions fail to reach agreement [The Citizen] 19-04-2024
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Korea (South) Costco workers poised to strike over unresolved labour disputes and worker death [UNI] 19-04-2024
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Lesotho Union takes Adient Automotive to labour tribunal for union busting [IndustriALL] 19-04-2024
Nigeria Labour Union Pickets Heritage Bank Over Sack Of 1,000 Support Workers [Channels TV] 19-04-2024
South Africa / Eastern Cape COSATU welcomes Volkswagen’s R4 billion investments in its Kariega assembly plant [COSATU] 19-04-2024
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Uganda Uganda faces scrutiny over child labour violations – ILO expert [New Vision] 18-04-2024
UK Voices: Banks are closing sex workers’ accounts – but it’ll only push us to take bigger risks [The Independent] 19-04-2024
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Ukraine https://www.solidaritycenter.org/ukraine-domestic-workers-organize-for-recognition-dignity/ [Solidarity Centre] 18-04-2024
USA / Minnesota The union building trades can be a gateway to wage equality for MN women [Reformer] 19-04-2024
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