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Striking Scottish teachers join rail workers, civil servants, university lecturers and fellow educators in coordinated national strike across UK, as further NHS strikes planned; teachers’ strikes continue in Hungary and Portugal over pay, staff shortages and minimum service levels; strikes and protests continue against massacre of Palestinians by Israeli army, house demolitions in Jerusalem and government authoritarian measures, with school students demonstrating in Tel Aviv; thousands of retail workers at Makro in South Africa strike over pay and conditions in year-long battle including police violence against pickets
National one-day strike in France against government plans to increase retirement age by two years; doctors across Spain walk out over staff shortages and pay; UK health workers’ strikes over low pay and staff shortages continue as teachers vote to walk out; protests continue across Iran over police murder of Mahsa Amini, joined by cost-of-living strikes by oil and gas workers; strikes by Lebanese workers including telecom workers and teachers in response to ongoing economic crisis