Thousands of metalworkers in Spain continue strikes for new collective agreements, joined by teacher walkouts over work conditions; thousands of German steelworkers and dockers at six ports join warning strikes over pay; construction workers building new Metro and transport workers in Thessaloniki, Greece demand protection from Covid-19 after outbreak; protests by workers in Palestinian West Bank as prices rise 30 percent since March; after isolating three-month strike at South African Sibanye-Stillwater gold, strike ends with unions pushing through sellout deal
General strike in Italy to protest government spending on war; Strikes continue across French transport network including bus, tram and rail workers over pay and conditions.
Any genuine organisation of workers would have gone on to explain what action was being taken to overturn this victimisation. Instead Unite declared, “Strikes have currently been suspended to allow for renewed negotiations.”
Strikes by Palestinian teachers on the West Bank over pay and conditions continue in defiance of union; teachers in 50 cities across Iran and petrochemical workers walk out over pay and conditions; general strike in Algeria over rise in price of cooking oil and wheat; miners at Sibanye-Stillwater gold mines South African entering third month of strike reject latest pay offer and hold out for 9.8 percent; one-day national strikes and rallies in Italy and Belgium over pay