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NIGERIA: Varsity lecturers begin strike Monday punchng.com/varsity-lect...

Barring any last-minute change in plan, members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities will begin a two-week warning strike on Monday. This follows

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 8h

BELGIUM: Largest Trade Unions Announce Mass Strike on October 14, Protesting Government Reforms to Pensions, Wages, Working Conditions www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...

Belgium’s Largest Trade Unions Announce Mass Strike on October 14, Protesting Government Reforms to Pensions, Wages, Working Conditions, with Air Travel Among the Most Affected Sectors - Travel And To...

Belgium is gearing up for a significant nationwide strike on Tuesday, October 14, which is predicted to cause major disruptions across various sectors. The industrial action

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 8h

USA: Shawn Fain: “We Need More Than a Party — We Need a Movement” jacobin.com/2025/10/fain...

Shawn Fain: “We Need More Than a Party — We Need a Movement”

UAW president Shawn Fain, speaking at a Center for Working-Class Politics and Jacobin event, emphasized the need for a political program that addresses workers’ most basic issues — and how a broad str...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 9h

USA: From pulpit to picket line: Religion and labor rights long connected in coal country www.ncronline.org/news/pulpit-...

From pulpit to picket line: Religion and labor rights long connected in coal country

For over a century, coal has transformed central Appalachia. All the while, religion has been transforming in the mountains, too. Labor and religion are deeply entangled here.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 9h

USA: Story of the Week: Is Broadway Going on Strike? www.theatermania.com/news/story-o...

Story of the Week: Is Broadway Going on Strike? - TheaterMania.com

Two unions are currently negotiating for new contracts with the Broadway League.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 9h

ITALY / PALESTINE: Second General Strike for Gaza Brought 2 Million Workers into the Streets truthout.org/articles/ita...

Italy’s Second General Strike for Gaza Brought 2M Workers Into the Streets

The next day, one million people joined a demonstration in Rome, which highlighted Italy’s complicity in the genocide.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 9h

NETHERLANDS: Rotterdam port lashers to suspend strike from Monday www.reuters.com/business/wor...

Rotterdam port lashers to suspend strike from Monday

Hundreds of striking lashers in the port of Rotterdam will suspend their walkout for at least five days from Monday morning, as union leaders and employers try to reach agreement on a new wage deal, a court said.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 9h

BANGLADESH: Rethinking worker welfare in a changing climate www.tbsnews.net/supplement/r...

Rethinking worker welfare in a changing climate

Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity (BCWS) and The Business Standard organised a National Dialogue based on a research report on Just Transition and the Interplay between Climate Change, Labour R...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 9h

UK: Longest strike in NHS history reaches 200 days www.bbc.com/news/article...

Strike action by NHS hospital staff reaches 200 days - BBC News

Strike action by NHS hospital staff who take blood samples in Gloucestershire reaches 200 days

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 9h

IRELAND: SIPTU slams FAI over youth training scheme closure, confirms meeting with Oireachtas www.msn.com/en-ie/news/u...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 9h

KENYA: Relief as Nairobi City Hall’s 3,000-Strong Ageing Workforce Set to Retire theweeklyvisionews.net/relief-as-na...

Relief as Nairobi City Hall’s 3,000-Strong Ageing Workforce Set to Retire - The Weekly Vision

Sources within City Hall told The Weekly Vision that dozens of employees nearing the mandatory retirement age of 60 have…

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 9h

FRANCE: French Retirees Surpass Younger Workers' Income, OECD Data Reveals www.msn.com/en-xl/news/o...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 9h

SOUTH AFRICA: 'Designed to weaken unions, fragment worker power' dailynews.co.za/sunday-tribu...

'Designed to weaken unions, fragment worker power'

The working class must reject these amendments in their entirety. They are regressions. If passed, they will mark the beginning of a new era, one in which the promises of 1994 are rewritten to suit th...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 9h

MALTA: The GWU looks to the future timesofmalta.com/article/the-...

The GWU looks to the future

After 82 years, the GWU’s purpose remains clear: to be the voice of all workers, to leave no one behind, and to help build a Malta founded on fairness, dignity, and solidarity, says Josef Bugeja

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 9h

UK: Refuse workers fume at 'disease ridden' rubbish strewn outside home www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Refuse workers fume at 'disease ridden' rubbish strewn outside home

A shocking video showed a refuse worker raging at the 'disgusting' state outside a home with 'congealed waste' and 'vermin everywhere'

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 9h

CANADA: Why is Canada Post’s union switching to rotating strikes? www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Why is Canada Post’s union switching to rotating strikes?

You might soon start getting your mail again as postal workers, who were on a nationwide strike after the government proposed sweeping changes to Canada Post, shift to a rotating model. But it doesn’t...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 10h

12-10-1975 CANADA: Grace Hartman is elected National President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. She becomes the first woman in North American history to lead a major union. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_H...

Grace Hartman (trade unionist) - Wikipedia

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 10h

12-10-1973 CANADA: A strike by immigrant workers at the Artistic Woodwork factory in suburban Toronto attracts strong support from political activists. The strike exposes the role of police in protecting strikebreakers. cirhr.library.utoronto.ca/digital-coll...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 10h

12-10-1935 UK:78 Miners “Stay Down” @ Nine Mile Point colliery, South Wales against employment of scab union workers; other pits are also occupied.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 10h

12-10-1898 USA: The Battle of Virden massacre takes place in Illinois, as striking United Mine Workers fight scabs & guards. 11 killed.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1d

UK: How mining banners helped shape communities past and present www.bbc.com/news/article...

How mining banners helped shape communities past and present

The colourful banners can be seen around north-east England, but why and what do they represent?

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1d

PHILIPPINES / CANADA: Filipino migrant workers in Canada call for livable wage, job security www.bulatlat.com/2025/10/11/f...

Filipino migrant workers in Canada call for livable wage, job security

“In an industry where precarious jobs, wage theft, unsafe conditions can be commonplace, where workers — especially migrants, women — face intimidation, fear of reprisal, for speaking up, it is not en...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1d

GLOBAL: Teachers and their unions use innovative and empowering approaches to ensure the right to education for girls in all their diversity www.ei-ie.org/en/item/3149...

Teachers and their unions use innovative and empowering approaches to ensure the right to education for girls in all their diversity

On the International Day of the Girl Child and every day, educators around the world are fully committed to advancing girls’ rights through education.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1d

NIGERIA: Dangote: Textile union defends Oshiomhole against NUPENG www.vanguardngr.com/2025/10/dang...

Dangote: Textile union defends Oshiomhole against NUPENG

Oshiomhole, former NLC leader acted patriotically in his remarks on the ongoing dispute between Dangote Refinery and PENGASSAN, NUPENG told

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 1d

CAMBODIA: Unions Denounce Thai Military for Violating Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity www.khmertimeskh.com/501771266/ca...

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