Tag: national strike

• Wednesday, December 4th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Huge national strike challenges Macron's pension system overhaul

  

  Trains cancelled, schools closed: France scrambled to make contingency plans on Tuesday for a huge strike against pension overhauls that poses one of the biggest challenges yet to President Emmanuel Macron's sweeping reform drive.

• Thursday, May 23rd 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Nicaragua national strike to pressure the Ortega regime to release political prisoners

  

  Nicaragua's opposition on Wednesday called a 24-hour general strike to increase pressure on the government of President Daniel Ortega to release prisoners as agreed in peace talks between the two sides.

• Wednesday, November 21st 2012 - 07:41 UTC

  General strike, supported by pickets paralyzed Argentina

  

  Two main opposition umbrella trade unions and other organizations protesting Argentina's economic policies paralyzed the country on Tuesday in the first general strike since President Cristina Fernandez took office five years ago.

• Tuesday, November 20th 2012 - 06:33 UTC

  Major national strike in Argentina with pickets to implement the measure

  

  Argentina’s three main organized labour groupings, and in opposition to Argentine president Cristina Fernandez, have called for a national strike on Tuesday which counts with the support of several tens of camp and city organizations plus hundreds of pickets in the main cities ‘to ensure there is no activity’.

• Monday, November 12th 2012 - 05:54 UTC

  Barrage of criticisms on Cristina Fernandez; unions planning national strike

  

  Argentine opposition leaders renewed their criticism of President Cristina Fernández accusing her of being autistic, unlimitedly authoritarian and of disregarding the people after the giant anti-government pot-banging protest, 8N, on Thursday, while the administration vowed to steer the course and not to fall into “rightwing” provocation.

• Wednesday, June 27th 2012 - 08:14 UTC

  First organized labour national strike challenges President Cristina Fernandez

  

  For the first time in decades the powerful Argentine organized labour movement has confirmed it is going ahead with a much debated national strike against a Peronist government, which allegedly rests on support precisely from the unions and a long history of generous labour legislation.

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 20:26 UTC

  Teamsters return to work in Argentina, but new national strike programmed for next week

  

  Argentina’s head of organized labour confederation CGT, Hugo Moyano came on stage Thursday afternoon to announce the end of the national strike led by the Teamsters’ union.