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International
1/6/2023 2:49:41 PM
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Friday urged public-sector unions to hold talks with the government next week as a wave of strikes hits hospitals, railways, and other critical areas.
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World
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International
12/18/2022 9:00:00 PM
The British government said Sunday it will dispatch 1,200 troops to fill in for striking ambulance drivers and border staff as multiple public sector unions walk off the job in the week before Christmas.
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World
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International
11/30/2022 9:31:13 PM
The U.S. House moved urgently to head off the looming nationwide rail strike on Wednesday, passing a bill that would bind companies and workers to a proposed settlement that was reached in September but rejected by some of the 12 unions involved.
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World
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International
11/8/2022 10:23:55 PM
Labour unions have called a major one-day strike which threatens to paralyse Paris public transport Thursday, the latest industrial action to demand relief from the French government over soaring prices.
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International
10/18/2022 4:08:06 PM
As the sun beat down on Tuesday on the English seaside resort of Brighton, gathering union leaders warned of mass winter strikes in the face of Britain's cost-of-living crisis.
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World
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International
10/17/2022 5:20:00 PM
France on Monday braced for nationwide transport strike action as the government and unions remained in deadlock over walkouts at oil depots that have sparked fuel shortages.
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World
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International
9/29/2022 7:50:47 PM
The French government vowed on Thursday to push through pension reform by the end of the winter despite opposition from unions which launched a first major day of strikes.
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Egypt
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Politics
7/4/2022 3:35:16 PM
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said on Sunday that his call for a national dialogue is meant to bring together all intellectuals, unions, and political parties except one faction that resorted to killing, in reference to the terrorist-designated Muslim Brotherhood group.
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World
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Region
6/23/2022 1:54:37 PM
The head of Tunisia's powerful UGTT trade union confederation on Thursday rejected conditions set by the International Monetary Fund for a new loan to bail out the country's struggling economy.
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Egypt
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Politics
6/14/2022 8:10:13 PM
Egypt’s Justice Party (‘El-Adl’) announced on Tuesday that it will sponsor the ‘Second Workers’ Conference’ in Alexandria on Friday in preparation for the national dialogue that is scheduled for July.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
4/18/2022 9:15:10 PM
Germany's employers and unions have joined together in opposing an immediate European Union ban on natural gas imports from Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
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World
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International
3/29/2022 11:58:29 AM
Hundreds of workers marched with the red flags of the labor unions and chanted anti-government slogans in India's capital on Tuesday as part of a two-day nationwide strike that began Monday.
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World
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Region
1/13/2022 3:13:00 PM
Schools, universities and many shops were closed in Lebanon on Thursday as a general strike by public transportation and labour unions paralyzed the crisis-hit Mideast nation.
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World
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Region
12/4/2021 9:49:12 PM
Tunisia's powerful UGTT trade union confederation demanded a "national dialogue" and a "roadmap" out of a state of exception imposed by President Kais Said, at a rally attended by thousands of supporters on Saturday.
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Africa
12/1/2021 3:40:58 PM
A two-day strike called by transport unions over alleged official harassment and illicit competition paralysed the Senegalese capital Dakar on Wednesday.
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World
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International
3/15/2021 3:29:37 PM
The Vatican said on Monday that priests and other Catholic Church ministers cannot bless same-sex unions and that such blessings are “not licit” if carried out
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World
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International
3/8/2021 12:20:21 PM
Banks, stores, shopping malls and some clothing factories were closed following an appeal by trade unions for a general strike to bring the economy to a standstill
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World
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International
3/7/2021 4:03:26 PM
In a statement, nine labour organisations called on "all Myanmar people" to stop work in an effort to reverse the seizure of power by the military, which overthrew the civilian government on Feb. 1
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World
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International
3/3/2021 11:39:44 AM
Biden’s drive to get educators vaccinated more quickly comes amid a political controversy that has pitted parents pushing for schools to reopen against the teachers unions that helped put him in the White House
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World
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International
10/21/2020 9:13:00 PM
'You can't kick someone out of a family, nor make their life miserable for this. What we have to have is a civil union law; that way they are legally covered'
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