European wave of teachers’ strikes over pay, funding and workload in Germany, Romania, Hungary, Northern Cyprus, and Finland; continuing Iranian cost-of-living protests by pensioners, rail and petrochemical workers face state repression including executions; autoworkers at Tenneco in South Africa continue their indefinite strike for pay parity and the reinstatement of 87 sacked strikers
At least one person sustained a head injury on Monday, May 22, when dozens of citizens staged a protest at Arcelor Mittal Liberia Buchanan’s office demanding that the concession company live up to its Minerals Development Agreement (MDA).