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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Teachers in France in further walkout against school “reforms” after last week’s national strike; Lebanese public sector workers in national strike over pay, eroded 92 percent since 2018; bus workers in Johannesburg, South Africa take wildcat action over pay, shift changes and unfair accusations of theft

YEAR-ENDER - President Macron to 'mark history' by letting far right rise in France: Trade union

The French union bosses who ruined your Christmas: Leaders of the wildcat strikers who heaped misery on tens of thousands of travellers in surprise Eurotunnel walkout after demanding bonus payments be trebled

Tens of thousands of travellers have had their journeys disrupted just days before Christmas after French unions called a wildcat strike.

Striking Staff Temporarily Shutter Centre Pompidou in Paris

Workers say they’ve been left in the dark about the future of their jobs once the museum closes for a multi-year renovation.

French premier says president asked her to draft gov't program

Elisabeth Borne says her aim is to appease country, while mass mobilization against pension reform continues

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Strikes by teachers and support workers continue in parts of Lithuania, Portugal, Belgium, Montenegro, Germany and Serbia over pay, conditions and funding; protests across Middle East including in Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, the Yemen and Jordan in response to Israeli bombing of Gaza; polytechnic workers in Abeokuta, Nigeria begin indefinite strike over non-payment of salaries and allowances for three months

French unions hold nationwide protest against police violence

This weekend’s protest revealed continuing popular hostility to Macron’s police state, and the bureaucracies’ attempts to divert opposition in a racialist direction.

2023 pension reforms to leave mark on France's history: Trade union representative

French billionaire to face investors as graft claims swirl

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

National 24-hour rail strike in Italy over collective agreement as airlines hit by stoppages; journalists at French paper Journal du Dimanche in week three of strike against appointment of far-right editor; around 60 female students at university in Tehran banned from campus for peaceful protests against wearing the hijab; truck drivers in Kenya paralyse trade around Mombasa in sit-down strike over conditions, blocking northern corridor with parked up trucks