Experiments with truth: 11/25/09

The Editors November 25, 2009

Over 250,000 public sector workers in Ireland, including teachers, nurses and civil servants, went on strike on Tuesday in protest against government plans to cut pay and prevent the national debt from spiraling out of control.

In Turkey, public employees across the country are set to take part in a nationwide strike today to protest the government for failing to meet their demands on collective bargaining and strike rights.

The first education sector strike in France since the beginning of the academic year got underway Tuesday. The educational professionals were joined by striking postal workers, who are protesting the privatisation of postal services.

Workers at Repsol’s La Pampilla oil refinery in Peru said on Tuesday they had started a two-day strike to pressure the company for better benefits and to end forced overtime.

Players from a lower-league Portuguese football club have vowed to continue with a hunger strike, which began on Friday, in protest at the fact they have not been paid for six months.

The Pompidou Centre was forced to shut down on Monday after staff went on strike to protest planned job cuts at the Parisian mecca of modern and contemporary art.

In Nepal, thirteen student unions on Monday announced a five-day long agitation protesting Tribhuvan University’s recent decision to hike tuition fees ten fold in all its constituent and affiliated colleges.

A hunger strike by opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has grown, with 24 university students vowing not to eat until the Organization of American States sends a delegation to Venezuela to review allegations of human rights abuses.

In South Africa, Musina municipal workers staged a sit-in on Tuesday in protest against alleged corruption and financial mismanagement by officials.

Tags: Experiments with Truth, Labor, Protests, Sit-ins, Strikes

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