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
National strike in Belgium against “social dumping” by Delhaize and other companies to drive down wages and conditions; continuing strikes and protests across Iran over cost of living, pay and conditions involving pensioners, Haft Tappeh sugarcane workers as strike leaders of offshore gas workers arrested; Nigerian doctors give union mandate for indefinite stoppage over pay, unions call five-day warning strike