This Jan 23, 2023 photo shows ambulance workers hold cardboard signs and flags of the UK's trade union UNISON as they take part in a rally at a picket line outside the Docklands Emergency Operating Centre, Newham Dockside, in London. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON – The United Kingdom recorded the highest number of working days […]
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street, in London, on Feb 1, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON — Health workers in Britain began their largest strike on Monday, as tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance workers walk out in an escalating pay dispute, putting further strain on the state-run National Health Service […]
In this file photo taken on Jan 19, 2023 passengers stand next to a board displaying the closure of the Montparnasse metro station in Paris, as workers go on strike over French President's plan to raise the legal retirement age from 62 to 64. (PHOTO / AFP) PARIS – A second nationwide strike disrupted French […]
Members of the military walk next to an ambulance in London on Wednesday, as ambulance workers went on strike in their dispute with the government over pay. (HENRY NICHOLLS / REUTERS) Thousands of ambulance workers in England and Wales went on strike on Wednesday, in search of a pay rise that competes with the United […]
Passengers wait at the concourse of Euston station, as rail workers strike over pay and terms, in London, Britain December 13, 2022. (TOBY MELVILLE / REUTERS) LONDON — The United Kingdom recorded the highest number of working days lost to labor disputes in October for more than 10 years, official data showed on Tuesday, as […]
Royal Mail workers hold placards and banners as they gather in Parliament Square, to hold a protest over pay and jobs, in London on Dec 9, 2022. (ALBERTO PEZZALI / AP) LONDON – British nurses will go on strike this week, hitting already stretched hospitals and cranking up pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to quell the […]
In this Sept 14, 2022 file photo, freight train cars sit in a Union Pacific rail yard in Commerce, California. (ASHLEY LANDIS / AP) WASHINGTON – Railroad Workers United (RWU) expressed anger at both major parties of the United States on Friday. US President Joe Biden signed a measure earlier Friday implementing a labor agreement […]
Chief of Staff of Ethiopian Armed Forces Field Marshall Birhanu Jula (left) and Head of the Tigray Forces Lieutenant General Tadesse Werede (right) exchange signed copies of an agreement, at Ethiopian peace talks in Nairobi, Kenya, Nov 12, 2022. (BRIAN INGANGA / AP) ADDIS ABABA – Senior commanders of the Ethiopian government and the Tigray […]
Healthcare workers leave on the METRORail following a shift change as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus continues to spread through the country in Houston, Texas, US, on Dec 29, 2021. (CALLAGHAN O'HARE / REUTERS) WASHINGTON / PARIS – The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by Missouri and nine other […]
Amtrak trains travel through Washington, DC, on Sept 15, 2022. (STEFANI REYNOLDS / AFP) The White House on Thursday announced a tentative agreement to avert a strike that would have shut down rail lines nationwide and crippled the economy. Negotiators had until early Friday to reach a deal. The deal with unions representing more than […]
Platforms at Waterloo Station are closed as members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) began fresh nationwide strikes in a bitter dispute over pay, jobs and conditions in London, on Aug 18, 2022.(FRANK AUGSTEIN / AP) LONDON – London's transport network ground to a halt on Friday as train and bus workers held […]
Workers and members of the RMT union stand on a picket across the street from Victoria railway station in London on June 21, 2022. (MATT DUNHAM / AP PHOTO) LONDON – Strikes crippled Britain's rail network on Thursday as union bosses, train operating firms and the government faced off over demands that workers' pay increases […]
Trains stand stationary on tracks by platforms in Waterloo railway station in London on June 21, 2022. (MATT DUNHAM / AP PHOTO) LONDON – Britain's biggest rail strike in 30 years kicked off on Tuesday as tens of thousands of staff walked out in a dispute over pay and jobs that could pave the way […]