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World
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International
9/9/2022 3:39:48 PM
British railway and postal workers, at the forefront of sector-wide strikes over a cost-of-living crisis, have halted upcoming walkouts following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
9/7/2022 2:44:03 PM
Two people were killed and 28 others were injured on Wednesday when a minibus carrying company workers crashed into a truck loaded with quary materials and a pick-up truck on the Suez-Sokhna Road near Attaqa Power Plant.
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World
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International
9/5/2022 12:12:55 PM
Britain finally learns who its next prime minister will be on Monday after two months of political uncertainty during which energy prices skyrocketed and tens of thousands of workers went on strike.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
8/30/2022 3:01:00 PM
In the battle for public opinion between the UK government and workers, one man has been standing out.
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World
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International
8/24/2022 6:21:22 PM
Bus drivers in London are set to strike over pay for two days this weekend, their union announced on Wednesday, as decades-high inflation prompts walkouts across Britain's ailing economy.
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World
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Region
8/21/2022 12:53:25 PM
Iraqi rescue workers were Sunday battling to free at least six pilgrims trapped under rubble after a landslide hit a Shia Muslim shrine in the central province of Karbala.
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World
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International
8/21/2022 12:24:26 PM
Workers at Britain's biggest container port, Felixstowe, on Sunday began an eight-day strike over pay, in the latest industrial action as decades-high inflation intensifies the country's cost-of-living crisis
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World
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International
8/20/2022 10:06:41 PM
Almost 2,000 workers at the U.K.'s biggest container port will launch an eight-day strike Sunday over a pay dispute, the latest industrial action to hit the U.K. economy.
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World
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International
8/19/2022 2:56:01 PM
Public transport workers in London held fresh strikes Friday over pay and conditions, cutting services on almost all underground and overground rail lines that link up the UK capital.
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World
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Africa
8/18/2022 8:23:30 PM
Striking electricity workers shut down Nigeria's power grid Wednesday, plunging the West African nation's more than 200 million citizens into darkness for several hours, officials said.
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World
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International
8/14/2022 7:34:32 PM
A major wildfire that ravaged pine forests in a tourist-beloved area of southwestern France has stopped expanding after rain fell and firefighters worked Sunday to tame it.
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World
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International
8/13/2022 1:06:41 PM
Thousands of U.K. train drivers walked off the job Saturday in a strike over jobs, pay and conditions, scuppering services across much of the country. The action was the latest in a spreading series of strikes by British workers seeking substantial raises to offset soaring prices for food and fuel.
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Business
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Economy
8/4/2022 10:22:33 PM
Egypt enjoyed a significant increase in revenue from tourism and transport receipts as well as a modest increase from workers’ remittances through the third quarter of the previous fiscal year, according to data released by the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) on Thursday.
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Business
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Tech
8/4/2022 6:31:06 PM
More than 700 Amazon warehouse workers in England staged a protest Thursday in a dispute over pay, in the latest sign of workplace friction stoked by Britain's cost of living crisis and a growing discontent among employees over wage and working conditions.
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World
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Region
8/2/2022 10:01:03 PM
UN experts on Tuesday condemned Israel's 'harassment' of human rights defenders and humanitarian workers in the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta villages, where Israel has a military zone.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
8/1/2022 1:41:40 PM
Egypt's Public Prosecution ordered the detention of 26 people for four days pending investigation for disrupting traffic and assaulting public service workers in Upper Egypt's Aswan governorate.
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Business
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Economy
7/30/2022 2:17:35 PM
Tens of thousands of Egyptians who work as home delivery couriers – known in Arabic as tayareen, or pilots – face hard working conditions and enjoy minimal social protections.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
7/22/2022 2:58:37 PM
Ukrainian emergency workers recovered three bodies from a school hit by a Russian strike in the east of the country, officials said Friday, as attacks continued in several parts of the nation.
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Business
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Economy
7/1/2022 3:41:23 PM
Flights from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and other French airports faced disruptions Friday as airport workers held a strike to demand salary hikes to keep up with inflation and an urgent hiring push to deal with resurgent travel demand.
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World
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International
6/25/2022 12:21:54 PM
Rising food costs. Soaring fuel bills. Wages that are not keeping pace. Inflation is plundering people's wallets, sparking a wave of protests and workers' strikes around the world.
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