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The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) announced a nationwide general strike to begin Monday in the face of mounting Chinese coronavirus infections and deaths, which doctors say are the product of government incompetence in issuing proper protective gear.

Civil servants in Greece have walked off the job in a 24-hour strike expected to disrupt public services on a variety of demands.

A Tuscan group representing small and medium-sized enterprises has threatened the government with a tax strike if businesses are forced to close due to Wuhan coronavirus lockdown measures.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday demanded a “jump in production” from his country’s threadbare economy to stave off the effects of U.S. sanctions, which he compared to the Wuhan coronavirus.

Hong Kong healthcare workers launched a five-day strike as threatened on Monday to protest their government’s refusal to completely seal the border with China until the coronavirus epidemic is under control. Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam responded by announcing more travel restrictions, closing down all land crossings except the bridges to Shenzhen and Zhuhai.

Lawyers in Pakistan announced a nationwide strike on Friday to protest the arrest of colleagues who went on a deadly rampage at the Punjab Institution of Cardiology (PIC) in Lahore on Wednesday, killing several patients in the process.

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) followed through on their earlier threats and went on strike on Thursday, forcing the cancellation of all classes for the 361,000 K-12 students who attend Chicago Public Schools (CPS).

President Trump urged the union and the carmaker to “get together and make a deal” to end the first general strike in 12 years.

A group of over 350 Hong Kong civil servants wrote a petition to the government on Thursday that said they are “absolutely disgusted” by the excessive use of police force against demonstrators and warning they might call a strike if the abuse continues.

Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam again refused calls for her resignation and lashed out at the immense protest movement on Monday, condemning participants as “radical elements” whose goal is to “foment revolution” against Communist China.

LOS ANGELES, California — Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who is running for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, appeared at a rally of over 1,000 striking workers and students outside the campus of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) on Wednesday afternoon in a show of solidarity and a pitch for labor support.

A Kentucky group that is part of the #RedforEd movement launched a teacher sickout in that state last week and may call for a statewide teachers strike if the Kentucky General Assembly passes legislation this session it does not like.

Oakland teachers have voted to end their strike an will return to work Monday after securing an 11% raise over four years — more than double what an arbitrator suggested, and that may plunge the school district into insolvency.

Educator and author Rebecca Friedrichs described the #RedForEd movement — pushed by teachers’ unions and their political allies — as a “deception” that uses teachers as pawns to advance the unions’ far-left political agenda to “fundamentally change [American] culture.” 

Officially, the strike is about higher pay, smaller class sizes, and additional support staff. Unofficially, the strike is about protecting the clout of the teachers’ union as charter schools — many of them un-unionized — expand in L.A.

Nearly 100 teaching assistants and instructors went on strike on Friday in response to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill constructing a building to house a Confederate statue on campus.

A Labour MP has called for a “general strike” to overthrow the Tory government and potentially allow for a second referendum that could block Brexit.

“I think a really long strike would be a great idea,” the president wrote on Twitter. “Employees would get more money and we would get rid of Fake News for an extended period of time!”

“This letter is to inform you and all district employees that these acts are unlawful,” a letter from the Goldwater Institute states. “If the district does not reopen and employees do not return to their duties, parents and students will have a legal cause of action against them.”

Despite a message on Twitter urging Russia to “get ready” for missile strikes into Syria, President Donald Trump specified that the timing of the strikes remained a mystery.

A week-long West Virginia teachers strike came to a conclusion on Tuesday after the state agreed to give teachers a five percent raise.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – A nationwide general strike disrupted services across Greece Wednesday, as lawmakers were set to approve another batch of reforms that will impose years more hardship on austerity-weary Greeks. Unions called the strike to protest new belt-tightening

The media giants wanted to avoid a long writers’ strike that would make them more irrelevant, as creatively self-produced media content increasingly becomes available on YouTube and Instagram.

TEL AVIV – A senior Palestinian military commander and veteran terrorist was killed in a strike in Syria over the weekend attributed by Syrian media outlets to the IDF, Hebrew-language media reported.

The Writer’s Guild of America has voted to authorize its union leaders to strike beginning next month, if a deal cannot be reached with Hollywood studios and producers for a revised payment structure and better health benefits.

Hundreds of thousands of service workers are planning an anti-Trump labor strike for May 1, BuzzFeed reported Saturday.

Thousands of women, and men, took the day off work on International Women’s Day to participate in at least three rallies and strikes throughout Washington D.C. to call for more rights, equality, and freedom.

(AFP) – Transport chaos hit France again on Wednesday, just nine days ahead of Euro 2016, as railway workers went on strike in the latest salvo of a months-long battle between the government and unions. Between a third and half

(AFP) – Looming strikes on trains and planes are threatening to bring chaos to France less than two weeks before Euro 2016 kicks off, with unions standing firm Monday in demanding that controversial labour reforms are scrapped. As the head

PARIS (AP) — France’s nationwide fuel shortages — the consequence of a bare-knuckle dispute over labor reforms which have pit militant unions against the government — are easing amid signs that both sides may be seeking a compromise. Fuel shortages

Activities at the Long Beach Harbor slowed dramatically after the International Brotherhood of Teamsters President James P. Hoffa committed his union’s 1.4 million nationwide membership to supporting “labor action” against Port of Long Beach truckers and warehouse operators for the

A union seeking to represent thousands of employees at New York’s two major airports says workers will go on strike Wednesday unless they are allowed to organize.

Tube drivers are some of the best-paid low skilled workers in the country. So many Londoners were furious when they brought the entire city to a standstill this week because they don’t want to work just a few night shifts

The Channel Tunnel closed again on Tuesday due to protesting MyFerryLink workers, its operator Eurotunnel and French traffic supervision body Bison Fute said. The entrance to the tunnel was blocked by angry workers who set fire to tyres thrown on

Courtney Love, the 50-year-old rock singer and widow of Kurt Cobain, was today held hostage with her driver during a taxi drivers’ demonstration in Paris. Claiming to be “safer in Baghdad” Love witnessed angry protestors she likened to a “French Taliban” disrupting

Trains from London to Europe have been turned back after reports of ‘protesters’ on the tracks, while roads in Calais are being set on alight after strike action by French Ferry Port workers. The perfect storm of incidents has rendered the