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New offer to avert further municipal strike

afrol News, 28 July - The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) has revised upwards its wage increase offer to municipal workers in a bid to end the nationwide strike that started Monday.

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SA municipal workers on strike

afrol News, 27 July - Thousands of municipal workers across South Africa have entered into a weeklong strike that is expected to bring down services such as transport and cleaning of the streets.

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Doctors threaten strike on Wednesday

afrol News, 13 July - Nigerian Doctors have threaten to embark on an indefinite strike on Wednesday if the Federal Government fails to meet the proposed demands by workers. The union had given the government the 4 June 2009 deadline, but with pleas from the government the deadline was extended by 28 days.

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Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe’s civil servants threaten to strike

afrol News, 18 June - Zimbabwean civil servants have threatened to boycott work nationwide if the government fails to increase workers’ salaries next month. The ultimatum will coincide with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s visit to the United States and Europe seeking financial back-up for the collapsed economy.

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» 22.04.2009 - Nigerian tankers suspend strike
» 21.04.2009 - Nigeria govt re-assures nation as fuel shortages hit
» 09.04.2009 - SA truckers vow to contrinue strike over Easter weekend
» 06.04.2009 - Police deployed to foil strike
» 25.03.2009 - Nigerian oil workers suspend strike
» 03.03.2009 - Oil workers issue a 21 day ultimatum
» 25.02.2009 - Zim teachers end year long strike
» 18.02.2009 - Pharmacists suspend strike as negotiations continue
» 17.02.2009 - Egypt truckers strike enters fourth day
» 13.02.2009 - Teachers outraged by caning of colleagues
» 09.02.2009 - Nigeria oil workers delay strike
» 09.01.2009 - Teachers strike to continue over low salaries
» 06.01.2009 - Doctors strike in Lagos leaves patients stranded
» 17.12.2008 - Striking health workers resume duties
» 13.11.2008 - Tunisian reporter charged for revealing labour conflict
» 27.10.2008 - SA Mining giants warned of deteriorating safety
» 14.10.2008 - Swaziland bans intl civil rights meeting
» 08.10.2008 - ITUC slams aggressive repression of Mauritanian trade unionists
» 06.10.2008 - International financial institutions urged to consider poor nations
» 24.09.2008 - Striking bank employees ordered back to work
» 02.09.2008 - Mauritius leader asked to ignore employment bills
» 11.08.2008 - Telkom South Africa, unions settle dispute
» 06.08.2008 - SA trade unions stage mass strike
» 21.07.2008 - Ministers' pay halved for diesel price cut
» 16.07.2008 - South African gold miners down tools
» 18.06.2008 - 2 killed in Guinea’s army and police clash
» 09.05.2008 - Zimbabwe unionists charged for inciting uprising
» 23.04.2008 - Unionists campaign against Zimbabwe's arm shipment
» 22.04.2008 - Trade unions call for decent work
» 07.04.2008 - 'The graves are not yet full'
» 03.04.2008 - Exiled Swazi hero murdered
» 07.03.2008 - No-work-no-pay rule damned
» 07.03.2008 - Rioting Zambia miners sacked
» 26.02.2008 - 7 killed in Cameroon protest
» 20.02.2008 - EU renews Zimbabwe ban
» 11.02.2008 - Uganda strike causes deaths
» 28.01.2008 - Ghana shuns labour standard
» 17.12.2007 - Slapped Kenya MC sacked
» 17.12.2007 - Editor's killers still at large
» 12.12.2007 - Journalists attract solidarity
» 01.08.2007 - Kenya Minister clashes with police
» 29.06.2007 - SA unions call off strike
» 23.06.2007 - Deadlock looms over Nigeria strike
» 13.06.2007 - Strikers’ intimidation torments SA leader
» 06.06.2007 - Violence against Chad unions "escalates"
» 04.06.2007 - Month-old general strike threatens Chadians
» 22.05.2007 - SAA probes abnormal crew behaviour
» 03.05.2007 - Frequent strikes torments Senegal leader
» 30.04.2007 - Watchdog condemns NGO extermination in Zimbabwe
» 28.03.2007 - Air Senegal workers call off strike
» 26.03.2007 - Air Senegal workers begin strike
» 26.02.2007 - Guinea unions call off strike
» 19.02.2007 - Guinea opposition resists negotiation
» 14.02.2007 - Guinea lifts curfew but violence persists
» 13.02.2007 - Martial law in Guinea causes more protests
» 12.02.2007 - Guinea still in flames
» 29.01.2007 - As strike ends, Guineans hope for reform
» 26.01.2007 - Kenya journalists in labour conflict
» 25.01.2007 - No end to strike in Guinea
» 23.01.2007 - Death toll up in Guinea rebellion
» 22.01.2007 - Guinea confronts strike with fire
» 11.01.2007 - Guinea strike gets broad society support
» 10.01.2007 - Guinea in general strike over graft
» 03.01.2007 - Striking Cameroon prison guards "tortured"
» 22.12.2006 - South Africa's biggest security firm under fire
» 21.12.2006 - University lecturers in Uganda call off strike
» 16.11.2006 - Moroccan professors strike over work conditions
» 15.09.2006 - Zimbabwe unionist "tortured in detention"
» 15.09.2006 - Nigeria oil workers suspend strike
» 13.09.2006 - Zimbabwe mass protests minimised
» 13.09.2006 - Three-day oil strike started in Nigeria
» 06.09.2006 - Zimbabwe opposition groups join forces
» 07.06.2006 - Cameroon airports paralysed by strike
» 05.06.2006 - Unions in Guinea threaten indefinite strike
» 12.04.2006 - Swazi pro-democracy activists arrested in SA
» 30.03.2006 - Unions slam SA hi-tech rail for ignoring poor
» 27.02.2006 - Guinea paralysed by general strike
» 05.12.2005 - Nigeria's Biafra separatists call strike
» 01.03.2005 - Curfew after clashes in Comoros' Anjouan island
» 07.02.2005 - General strike in Burkina Faso successful
» 24.01.2005 - Strike threat in Swaziland, despite prohibition
» 08.12.2004 - New oil price strike threats in Nigeria
» 16.11.2004 - Nigeria unions call off strike after govt offer
» 14.10.2004 - Nigeria's fuel price strike suspended
» 11.10.2004 - Nation-wide fuel strike hits Nigeria
» 16.09.2004 - South Africa's public workers strike against "underpayment"
» 01.09.2004 - Botswana govt denies interference in strike
» 31.08.2004 - Botswana diamond strikers evicted from homes
» 11.06.2004 - Unions suspend Nigeria strike
» 10.06.2004 - Nigeria strike continues despite police violence
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