Strike

Workers in Ogun State, South-west Nigeria have embarked on an indefinite industrial strike over the non-payment of  21 months' salary deductions by the government. The workers are also protesting what they termed the “government’s…

The Nigerian Government has assured university students that efforts are on to resolve the ongoing face-off between it and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as well as other university based unions over payment platforms to be…

Zimbabwean nurses have plan to go on strike on Monday, June 19th to denounce their poor wages and working conditions. The announcement was made through a letter addressed by several unions to the biggest hospital in the country, the …

French diplomats went on strike on Thursday for the first time in 20 years in protest at staff cuts and reforms by President Emmanuel Macron that they say could hurt France's global standing. Hundreds of diplomatic staff at home and…

Health workers in Senegal went on strike to protest at charges filed against six midwives accused of negligence in a death that sparked nationwide anger. The National Association of Midwives and several other groups in the health sector…

Greek workers began a day-long nationwide strike on Wednesday, over a deepening crisis of rising prices and low wages, disrupting transport, ferries, schools and public hospitals. The country’s two biggest labour unions, representing…

Alaa Abdel-Fattah, a central figure of the 2011 "revolution" and Egypt's most famous political prisoner, has been on hunger strike since Saturday to protest his detention, his mother Laila Soueif said. "He refuses to eat because his…

Finding a school open is now a lottery in Zimbabwe, after a strike by teachers entered a new week, the education ministry suspended the strikers. Unions counted the numbers of suspended teachers in Zimbabwe at 135,000 out of the roughly…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU has declared a month  "roll-over" strike. The President of the Union Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke confirmed this to Voice of Nigeria in a telephone conversation on Monday on issues of…

The Lagos State chapter of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives on Friday said it would commence three-day warning strike on Monday, January 10. READ ALSO: Nurses, Midwives call-off 4-day strike in Kwara This was…