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Madrid, Jun 10 (Prensa Latina) A new container with medical supplies to be sent to Cuba was loaded in the town of Dos Hermanas, in the province of Seville, Spain, local media reported on Friday.

Call centre workers in Spain strike for pay rise as continuing healthcare workers’ stoppages are joined by teachers’ strikes over pay, conditions and funding; South African Sibanye-Stillwater gold miners’ 11-week pay strike continues as tax collectors and bus workers threaten walk out; protests across Iran over cuts to food subsidies joined by teachers’ protests for free education and bus drivers’ strike in Tehran; educators walk out across France and in French schools abroad over pay,...

Nine-week pay strike of South African Sibanye-Stillwater gold miners continues but union refuses to bring out platinum miners, while steelworkers at ArcelorMittal walk out over pay; Spanish healthcare workers continue widespread fight for improved staffing levels, pay and conditions, but unions work to shut it down; government closes down internet access as protests sweep Khuzestan province, Iran over price rises

Strikes by thousands of municipal workers including teachers and social workers in Germany over pay and staffing joined by Amazon and healthcare workers over collective agreements; week-long pay strike by municipal workers in Finland, but nurses’ strike called off as government introduces strike-breaking bill; cost of living strikes in Greece on May Day by port and transport workers; thousands of teachers demonstrate in Iran over pay, pensions and for free education

Strikes by Palestinian teachers on the West Bank over pay and conditions continue in defiance of union; teachers in 50 cities across Iran and petrochemical workers walk out over pay and conditions; general strike in Algeria over rise in price of cooking oil and wheat; miners at Sibanye-Stillwater gold mines South African entering third month of strike reject latest pay offer and hold out for 9.8 percent; one-day national strikes and rallies in Italy and Belgium over pay

Spanish shop workers at Douglas strike against threat to 1,000 jobs, while bus drivers walk out in Zaragoza over collective bargaining; unions capitulate to Finnish government’s strike-breaking against pay stoppages by 100,000 municipal workers and nurses; UK Chep pallet production workers in five month pay strike are voting in a ballot to continue their struggle; South African Sibanye-Stillwater gold mine strike over pay enters week seven as unions delay calling out platinum miners

Nurses and municipal workers in Finland continue pay strikes as government plans strike-breaking measures; healthcare workers in Spain protest and strike against deteriorating conditions; long-running cost of living strikes continue in UK by pallet workers in Manchester and refuse workers in Coventry; gold miners’ pay strike at Sibanye-Stillwater in South Africa continues into second month

National 24-hour strike by 20,000 French public sector workers over pay and conditions; workers at all eight Amazon warehouses in France begin stoppage over pay; Finnish nurses and municipal workers strike over poor pay and conditions while government increases military spending by 70 percent; five-week strike by thousands of miners at South African Sibanye-Stillwater gold mines threatens to spread to coal mines which supply biggest electricity supplier

Spanish lorry drivers continue strike against rising fuel prices due to US/NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, disrupting supply chains; tens of thousands join one-day strike in France to demand wage rises and cuts in energy prices as Ukraine war drives inflation; Clover dairy workers’ nationwide strike in South Africa in danger as unions offer pay cuts and pay freeze; South African Sibanye-Stillwater gold miners’ pay strike may spread to platinum mines as next round of pay talks looms

Thousands of demonstrators on Saturday hit the streets across Spain protesting the soaring cost of food, electricity and fuel, which have been exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The rallies, which took place in Spain’s main cities, were called by the far-right Vox party, which sought to tap into growing social discontent over the spiraling cost of living that has left many families struggling to pay their bills. Outside Madrid City Hall, a crowd of several thousand people gathered...