Strike action

Dock workers on Canada's west coast have rejected the latest salary offer from an employers group, after earlier launching a 13-day strike with major economic consequences for the country.

Leaders of Hollywood's actors' union voted Thursday to join screenwriters in the first joint strike in more than six decades, shutting down production across the entertainment industry after talks for a new contract with studios and streaming services broke down.

Workers at Canada's busiest port in Vancouver and at harbors up and down the nation's west coast stopped work on July 1 in a labor dispute that is likely to disrupt global freight transport.

After months of failed talks, more than 7,000 terminal cargo loaders and 49 waterfront employers in 30 ports went on strike.

Workers in nine out of 10 countries have seen their right to strike violated over the past year as they battle the worst cost-of-living crisis in decades, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) warned on June 30.

A decade after launching its first annual Global Rights Index, the ITUC said the results for 2023 provided "a sobering confirmation of its founding purpose."

Kamerat is unique in at least two ways. It is among only a handful of film festivals in the world that specifically celebrate working-class film, and even fewer can boast of screening films in an abandoned mine shaft, forty metres below ground. This year it is happening for the third time and it features 22 films.

Germany has averted a crippling 50-hour train strike as transport union EVG on Saturday called off the industrial action after reaching a wage deal with rail operator Deutsche Bahn.

Delays and disruptions are however still expected in the next days across the rail network, Deutsche Bahn said, as it needed to work through the mass changes that had arisen because of the planned strike.

A strike called by teacher unions to coincide with the holding of the country's first-ever testing program aimed at evaluating whether schools are giving youngsters the education and skills they need has been declared illegal by an Athens court.

Strikes called for political reasons aren't rare. But that attempted by Public Employment Service workers because they oppose legislation aimed at clearing its registers of bogus out-of-work Greeks who abuse precious resources is rather unprecedented.

A four-day strike planned by tens of thousands of doctors in England next week could lead to the postponement of a quarter-million medical appointments, a National Health Service official has said.

Bus and trolley bus drivers in Athens will be walking off the job for five hours on Monday and holding a rally outside the headquarters of the Railway Organization (OSY) at noon in protest at safety lapses on the national rail system that contributed to the deadly train collision in central Greece on February 28.