Teachers’ strikes continue across Europe over pay, staff shortages and funding, joined by school students in Italy and France, kindergarten workers in Norway and university lecturers in Albania; UK strike wave continues, including among postal, telecom and dock workers, joined by wildcat action at oil refinery; protests and strikes in Iran over death of Mahsa Amini at hands of police enter sixth week, involving workers in oil, gas, petrochemical, sugar industries as well as students and other youth
Drewry’s Ports and Terminals Insight shows that strikes organised by port workers led to significant decreases in the capacity of vessel arrivals. Workers [.]
Further UK strikes as 40,000 rail workers bring rail network to a halt over jobs, pay, conditions and safety, postal workers in latest 24-hour strike and Liverpool dockers in new week-long stoppage; Criminal Bar Association agrees sellout deal with UK government to end long-running strikes over pay and legal aid; two-week pay strike of Transnet port and rail workers in South Africa “throttling the economy”