- For the fifth straight day on Monday, students staged a peaceful sit-in at the University of Vienna to draw attention to overcrowding of lectures and to demand more of a say in how Austria’s higher education institutions are run.
- In Jordan, around 200 people staged a one-hour sit-in on Sunday at the Professional Associations Complex to protest against an assault on veteran opposition leader Leith Shbeilat by anonymous individuals earlier that day.
- Cabin crew for the Spanish airline Iberia went on a two-day strike this week in protest against a four-year wage freeze, which forced the cancellation of more than 400 domestic and international flights.
- Five people were arrested and released, and two were injured — one bleeding from his mouth — after more than 120 people were forcibly removed from the House of Commons in Ottawa on Monday after interrupting question period with a climate-change protest.
- In New Zealand, nearly 2,000 courts and justice department staff staged a one hour strike yesterday morning to protest the Justice Ministry’s refusal to engage in meaningful pay negotiations.
- Catholic schools will close across Queensland today as teachers take to the streets over a pay dispute. Their 24-hour strike follows a rally by state school teachers outside Parliament House yesterday over their pay campaign.
- All local trains of Mumbai on the Central and the Harbour lines were running behind schedule as motormen went on strike in protest against overwork and fatigue.
