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UK England Amazon workers in coventry: A case study for resisting digital surveillance [The Boar] 07-08-2026
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Healthcare workers were on the picket line outside of Bagdasar Arseni Emergency Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, as 1000s of doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers began an indefinite nationwide strike as of 28 July. Proposed ‘reforms’ would cut allowances for many public service workers, including payments for night, weekend and holiday work. The workers union, the SANITAS, has the support of the European Public Sector Union which is pressing the workers’ case at the EU. (Photo:SANITAS) Click here to read more labour news from Romania.Got a photo that should be here? Post it to our group on Flickr. To see an archive of all our recent photos, click here.
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1842 UK Thousands of mill and factory workers across Lancashire walk out in support of the People's Charter.[more]
1881 United States of America United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America forms & becomes one of the largest trade unions in the US.
1920 UK The country sees large 'citizen demonstrations' against intervention in Soviet Russia.
1956 Belgium A fire in the Bois du Cazier coal mine started at 08:10. Within hours 262 miners from 12 countries were dead.
1995 Turkey 700,000 public sector workers stage one-day sit-in general strike for pay rises.
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