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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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Today in Labour History
1890 United States of America Knights of Labor strike on the New York Central railroad; ends in defeat due to scab labour.
1917 Australia The number of workers on strike across Sydney increases to 45,000 when miners and longeshoremen join the action.
1920 UK The TUC and the Labour Party agree to move a resolution for a general strike if Britain declares war on Soviet Russia.[more]
2004 Japan In Fukui, 320 km northwest of Tokyo, an accident at the Mihama nuclear power plant killed five workers and injured seven.
2005 United Kingdom A 2-hour strike without notice at Gate Gourmet results in the dismissal of most of the 670 strikers. The management is suspected of having provoked the strike to reduce its workforce.
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