Finnish workers continue strikes begun three months ago against anti-strike laws and austerity, which unions seek to contain with limited stoppages; protests by energy workers and retirees continue in Iran over pay and impoverished social conditions; health workers picket outside the Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa demanding ceasefire in Gaza and end to murder of children
The mining company clashed with workers last week after announcing it couldn’t pay Christmas bonuses and profit shares. An estimate of about 800 workers downed tools in a bid to strong-arm mine management to conceded to its demand.
Disgruntled workers at the gold mine, who staged a sit-in at the gold operation earlier in the week, are up in arms over the non-payment of incentives and want to be represented by a new majority labour union.