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Teachers’ strikes continue across Europe over pay, staff shortages and funding, joined by school students in Italy and France, kindergarten workers in Norway and university lecturers in Albania; UK strike wave continues, including among postal, telecom and dock workers, joined by wildcat action at oil refinery; protests and strikes in Iran over death of Mahsa Amini at hands of police enter sixth week, involving workers in oil, gas, petrochemical, sugar industries as well as students and other ...

Teachers strikes continue in Europe over pay, conditions and funding, as Norway’s Labour government moves to impose strike ban, Hungarian government imposes minimum service levels; UK dock strikes in Liverpool and Felixstowe over pay and conditions as criminal barristers’ strike continues; oil workers threaten to strike and join continuing protests in Iran after death of young woman at hands of morality police; Air traffic controllers in 18 African countries go on unofficial 48-hour strike o...

Teachers’ strikes continue across Europe over pay and conditions; national strike by UK criminal barristers over legal aid and pay; strikes and protests across Iran after death of young woman arrested for not wearing hijab; Nigerian university lecturers’ stoppage continues in face of government attacks and union sabotage; strikes across Sudan by doctors and civil servants continue over lack of pay

Airline pay strikes continue to sweep Europe in Spain, Romania, Germany, Portugal; civil servants, firefighters and teachers in one-day national walkout in Kosovo; rolling strikes by Dutch railway workers over conditions and cost of living begin; 2,700 teachers walk out in Norway over pay and staff shortage; waste and recycling workers’ stoppages sweep Scotland as rubbish piles up in streets; Qatar government deports migrant workers after arresting them for protesting non-payment of wages; Nat...

Airport and airline workers continue wave of pay strikes in Spain, France and Portugal; UK postal workers to begin stoppages over pay and conditions as rail strikes continue and dockers plan strikes; pensioners’ protests at cost-of-living crisis continue across Iran, with protests in Shahrekord after nine days without piped water; Lebanese public sector strikes over collapse in living standards enters third month; electricity workers across Nigeria take indefinite national strike over pay and ...

In this 2014 essay, Marcelo Cohen reflects back on decades as a translator in Spain and the complex relationship between translation, exile, and identity.

As core democratic institutions, trade unions have had to learn hard lessons on defeating authoritarianism.

Widespread strikes in aviation industry in Italy, France and Spain; UK rail strikes continue; 38,000 BT telecommunication workers in UK poised for first national strike in 35 years; UK bus drivers’ pay strikes continue; public sector strikes spread in Lebanon; thousands of South African tax workers continue pay strike

Madrid, Jun 24 (Prensa Latina) Sunny and with pleasant temperature, Madrid invites this Friday to take a walk, probably one of the last in the days before the NATO Summit next week.

National strike in Belgian public sector against wage restraint and mass demonstration of 80,000 in Brussels; cabin crew at Ryanair, EasyJet and national carriers across Europe plan strikes over staff shortages and to reverse pay cuts during pandemic; Greek healthcare workers join national 24-hour strike over staff shortages leading to exhaustion; UK refuse collection drivers employed by scab-organising Coventry Labour council continue five-month pay strike; strikes by 1,000 outsourced cleaners ...