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Teachers in Estonia, Greece and France strike and protest over pay, privatisation and funding; teachers continue strike begun in September in Kurdistan, Iraq affecting 3,000 schools over unpaid wages; residents near Durban, South Africa protest water shortages as infrastructure collapses

Workers at AWE Aldermaston are striking today.

Members of the Prospect union walked out this morning and will not return until 7am tomorrow, having voted heavily in favour of industrial action in protest at a 6% pay offer.

Prospect union members previously voted to walk out in protest at a 6% pay offer.

Teachers at publicly subsidised private schools in Basque Country, Spain begin ten days of strikes to demand compensation for inflation and new contract; Iranian workers at largest oil field in Persian Gulf, South Pars Field, protest over wages and conditions; primary school teachers in Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria on indefinite strike over pay arrears and allowances

Daily Mail, By EIRIAN JANE PROSSER , 8 January 2024 | The Government has admitted it has kept medical results of military veterans who survived British nuclear tests a state secret, prompting a furious outrage. Blood and urine samples from servicemen, civilians and indigenous people during the Cold War are among the thousands of personal records being held…

Workers at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), the UKs nuclear weapons manufacturer will walk out for 24 hours on Wednesday January 24.

Workers vote to walk out after two months of non-strike industrial action.

Blood and urine samples from servicemen, civilians and indigenous people during the Cold War are among the thousands of personal records being held.

Defence minister Andrew Murrison was accused of a "disgraceful response" on whether the government holds records of blood and urine tests on its own troops