UK trade union Unite has announced that 700 offshore workers at the Bilfinger civil engineering company have accepted an improved pay offer and decided to call off further strikes planned for June 8-10 after receiving a further 6% pay rise on top of the previous pay raise.Unite the union confirmed ..
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