Thousands of Greek journalists staged a nationwide strike on Tuesday to protest against wage cuts and lay-offs in their sector, hit by the recession as the country struggles to recover from a debt-crisis.
A seven-day strike by Nigerian gas tanker drivers, which was launched on Monday to protest the Nov. 9 killing of a driver at a joint police-army checkpoint, is creating long lines at gas stations in Africa’s top oil producer and crippling activity in its cities.
On Sunday evening, thousands of members of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) and the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) staged a 24-hour strike to protest planned job cuts, the fourth 24-hour strike on London tube system since August.
In Venice, protesters for several hours staged a sit-in at the city’s train station, while, thousands of students took to the streets in several other Italian cities to protest what they allege are crippling cuts to state tertiary education institutions.
Members of the group “Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise” (WOZA and MOZA) marked November 29, 2010, International Women Human Rights Defenders Day with a peaceful march in central Bulawayo to the offices of the state-owned Chronical news offices.
An estimated 3 million workers walked off the job last Wednesday in Portugal’s first general strike in 22 years, a protest against austerity measures imposed by a government under market pressure to cut spending.
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