Although the pay dispute has largely been resolved, Unite said the walkout, the longest industrial action in the row, is a response to sanctions on union members involved in previous industrial action.
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Ryanair is battling to prevent staff from taking industrial action.
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Ryanair is battling to prevent employees from taking industrial action.
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An industrial action plan to get the workers working again.
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Workers had threatened industrial action if there were job losses.
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Industrial action in Greece rarely secures full participation of workers.
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"Unite will now be making arrangements to move to a full statutory industrial action ballot which, given the strength of feeling, could result in industrial action in the coming months," it said in a statement.
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The two unions had previously voted in favor of industrial action.
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Behind the united front on industrial action, unions have different objectives.
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Another day of industrial action has been scheduled for Sept. 27.
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Every day seemed to bring industrial action of one sort or another.
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The industrial action led to the shutdown of one Shell-operated field.
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The pilots' union has yet to set any dates for industrial action.
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Its statement did not say what further industrial action it might take.
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This is not the first time BA cabin crew have called industrial action.
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Even so, 77% of train drivers joined the first day of industrial action.
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BALPA said 93% of the votes cast were in favour of industrial action.
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Ryanair pilots in Spain are also due to vote on possible industrial action.
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Lufthansa has lost an estimated €500m ($543m) because of industrial action since 2014.
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Industrial action on French oil major Total's North Sea oil platforms on Sept.
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"Once we meet, we can take a decision on deferring industrial action," he said.
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The company said its largest labour union is preparing another ballot for industrial action.
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NIGERIA OIL UNION NUPENG SUSPENDS PROPOSED INDUSTRIAL ACTION PLANNED OVER CHEVRON STAFF DISPUTE -STATEMENT
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The forthcoming strike is over sanctions on union members involved in previous industrial action.
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France is no stranger to the theatre of industrial action and political stand-off.
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Spain's USO and Sitcpla unions say they plan to hold industrial action on Jan.
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And this summer it has been hit by a long run of industrial action.
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Industrial action at Scandinavian rival SAS resulted in a similar pay hike on Thursday.
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State-controlled EDF did not give more details on the impact of the industrial action.
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Possible wider industrial action by 2,500 workers at the Offshore Contractors Association was still looming.
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A substantial number of Vonovia Property Management's 600 employees are ready for industrial action, Ver.
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UNITE UNION WORKERS VOTE FOR INDUSTRIAL ACTION AT SOME NORTH SEA OIL AND GAS SITES
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Overall, nearly 110,000 workers joined the walkouts and participated in industrial action, IG Metall said.
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It estimates the industrial action has so far cost it 300 million euros ($356 million).
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Mixed-fleet cabin crew have taken nearly 60 days of industrial action so far this year.
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The government announced the restrictions earlier in the week, after hospital workers began their industrial action.
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Industrial action by French customs staff caused Eurostar to cancel trains on its London-Paris route.
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The duration of the industrial action depends on when the government gives a proper practical solution.
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The industrial action also affected nurseries, rubbish collection services and swimming pools in several German states.
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Staff at the firm had not taken industrial action for 40 years, a Unite spokesman said.
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In France underlying sales fell 3.2 percent, hurt by widespread industrial action and exceptionally wet weather.
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Until recently, the mere notion of such industrial action at Ryanair would have been considered fanciful.
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Unions said between 85 and 90 percent of staff were taking part in the industrial action.
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"Our sites have contingency plans to ensure they can continue to operate during industrial action," she said.
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"A small number of our pilots have voted for industrial action," Virgin Atlantic said in a statement.
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An Alcoa spokeswoman said the company had contingency plans to ensure operations can continue during industrial action.
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UK'S UNITE UNION SAYS WILL HOLD A BALLOT FOR INDUSTRIAL ACTION AT THE ST FERGUS GAS PLANT
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AMERICA'S BIGGEST carmaker is in the grip of the longest industrial action it has suffered in decades.
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Terrorism, industrial action by air-traffic controllers, extreme weather and hidden manufacturing defects are among the legitimate exemptions.
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Even though South Korea has a tradition of energetic industrial action, unions have been largely absent from Samsung.
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But strikes have become less frequent and less successful as the number heeding calls for industrial action falls.
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There are signs that the "industrial action" will not convince the administration to recognize the graduate students' union.
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A vote by pilots in Ireland on whether to take industrial action is due to end on Tuesday.
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Industrial action and flooding have certainly not helped, but the threat of security trouble remains the greatest fear.
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SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS SAYS NUMSA AND SACCA COALITION AGREED TO, WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT, CALL-OFF THE INDUSTRIAL ACTION
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Almost 25 percent of American earth-warming emissions originate from industrial action involving public land or offshore leases.
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Industrial action in Britain, Ryanair's first market to agree a formal union recognition agreement, could be particularly damaging.
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The primary and secondary school teachers stepped up industrial action by beginning a full nationwide strike on Nov.
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The workers have since suspended the industrial action and given the company more time to meet their demands.
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But it also faced industrial action from cabin crew and other staff, resulting in hundreds of flight cancellations.
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The decision to call off the industrial action followed talks with Nigeria's labor minister in the capital, Abuja.
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He also mentioned the temporary effects of weather, sickness and industrial action affecting output in a number of countries.
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NIGERIA OIL UNION NUPENG THREATENS INDUSTRIAL ACTION OVER CHEVRON STAFF DISPUTE, GIVES COMPANY 7-DAYS TO MEET DEMANDS -STATEMENT
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Talks between the unions and government officials aimed at averting industrial action were scheduled to take place on Tuesday.
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Force Ouvriere union leader Jean-Claude Mailly showed no sign of being ready to call off the industrial action.
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The first industrial action by doctors for four decades, the strike has meant the cancellation of some 4,000 operations.
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A mediator appointed to smooth negotiations said neither side had tried to reach him since the industrial action began.
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More than 900,000 workers have taken part in industrial action this year in support of IG Metall's wage claims.
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Brittany Ferries announced mass cancellations of connections between Britain and northern France, where port workers joined the industrial action.
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"However, prolonged industrial action will be a concern to many with the market already tight," analysts at ING said.
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Drivers began an indefinite strike on Monday, the second of the year after similar damaging industrial action in April.
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British Airways owner IAG said industrial action from pilots at the airline had knocked down its third-quarter profits.
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Drivers began the indefinite strike on Monday, the second of the year after similar damaging industrial action in April.
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Ryanair only recognized trade unions for the first time in December 2017 and has been beset by industrial action.
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Elsewhere, staff at cereal manufacturer Weetabix voted on Monday for industrial action in the New Year over proposed shift changes.
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"It is the not first time we have faced industrial action," Hywood said as he addressed a Macquarie Group conference.
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It is the latest activist-led incident at Google, which, if conducted by unions, would be described as industrial action.
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Public opinion, too, has grown tired of the industrial action, but not in the way it did in the past.
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UK'S UNITE UNION SAYS MEMBERS VOTED FOR INDUSTRIAL ACTION ON ALL BP PLATFORMS IN THE NORTH SEA OWNED BY PETROFAC
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The industrial action is in protest at the sacking of 150 workers in December, of which 82 were PENGASSAN members.
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Coal can be stockpiled to guard against a temporary interruption of supplies due to weather, industrial action or international conflict.
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Industrial action could spread to the country's oil sector on Wednesday, when workers plan to start a 218.75-hour strike.
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Neighboring France has also faced industrial action in the last few weeks in protests against President Emmanuel Macron's planned reforms.
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Neighbouring France has also faced industrial action in the last few weeks in protests against President Emmanuel Macron's planned reforms.
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There will be consequences for any pilot bases where industrial action occurs, including the possible withdrawal of planes, O'Leary said.
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Workers on Southern Rail, a busy London commuter line, took their thirtieth day of industrial action in nearly a year.
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Employees working in the central bank's maintenance and security departments, will continue the industrial action over the next three days.
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The Communist-rooted CGT wants the industrial action to spread to other sectors but has so far seen limited support.
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A Total spokeswoman confirmed that industrial action had gone ahead "despite the new proposals that were made by the company".
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The union, which currently has no industrial action planned, in September held a 48-hour strike which grounded 1,700 flights.
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Even though production has slowed down, officials were not anticipating any power outages as a result of the industrial action.
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While a 40-day doctors strike ended last week, teachers remain on strike and civil servants have also threatened industrial action.
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Those trying to get away from it all will have to contend with industrial action called by British Airways' cabin crews.
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Four main railway unions on Thursday called for industrial action in response, although polls point to a lack of public support.
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This unusual pattern of rolling industrial action, which gives commuters a three-day respite before the disruption returns, is particularly confusing.
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Such industrial action is common in Germany before sector-wide pay negotiations, and similar walkouts took place in 2016 and 2015.
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Industrial action is common during sectoral wage negotiations in Germany and took place on a similar scale in 2016 and 2015.
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"Historically there has always been a close link between industrial action and sabotage in the telecommunications sector," she told the radio.
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IG Metall has threatened to ballot its members for extended industrial action if employers fail to offer concessions following the strikes.
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After 48 hours of action in September, no further industrial action is currently scheduled although the dispute over pay remains unresolved.
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Around 17,000 workers at companies including industrial group Thyssenkrupp and carmaker Daimler took part in industrial action in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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The combination of thick fog and industrial action within the city itself meant that there'd been a last minute timetable change.
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He was speaking shortly after the company signed a wage deal with a union to end the industrial action on Wednesday.
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The PPU said in a statement the ballot turnout was 80.3 percent, with 88.6 percent voting in favor of industrial action.
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Separately, The Times reported that British union Unite is balloting more than 0.73,000 BMW workers for industrial action over a pension scheme.
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On February 9, 2017, it was announced that production at the Chilean-based mine had been suspended due to ongoing industrial action.
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Earlier this year flight crew from easyJet, the continent's second-biggest budget airline, called for industrial action over concerns about tired pilots.
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However, James Farrar, chair of the IWGB's UPHD branch, said drivers had been driven to industrial action by declining earnings and intimidation.
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The carrier has previously said that only 23 Eurowings planes operated in Germany could therefore be subject to the latest industrial action.
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UK'S UNITE UNION SAYS PETROFAC DISPUTE IS SEPARATE FROM ONGOING INDUSTRIAL ACTION INVOLVING SHETLAND GAS PLANT AND ALWYN, DUNBAR AND ELGIN PLATFORMS
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Staff voted for industrial action short of a strike, which can include refusing to work overtime, in protest at the possible closure.
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"Major industrial action at Eurowings can no longer be ruled out," Nicoley Baublies, chief negotiator at cabin crew union UFO told Reuters.
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However, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union has warned of industrial action at Implats over its plans to reduce its workforce.
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The airline has experienced minor disruption due to industrial action in Germany and Portugal, but has so far avoided a major stoppage.
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In August, Mumbai taxi drivers reportedly decided to stop industrial action in favor of creating their own app to compete with Uber.
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The airline has experienced some minor disruption due to industrial action in Germany and Portugal, but has so far avoided a major strike.
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Another union spokesman said that a ballot on whether to take industrial action was still planned but had not yet been sent out.
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Lumumba Okugbawa, the general secretary, said office workers and staff working in distribution were among those taking part in industrial action across Nigeria.
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Union CWU (Communication Workers Union) is preparing another ballot of members for industrial action and the threat of more strikes on the horizon.
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Manufacturers were forced to slow production in December as supply lines were hit by industrial action against President Emmanuel Macron's overhaul of pensions.
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UNITE: ENQUEST PROPOSING TO WEAKEN THE EXISTING TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE WORKFORCE, UNION WILL EXPLORE EVERY OPTION INCLUDING BALLOTING FOR INDUSTRIAL ACTION
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Fully 77% of train drivers went on strike on the first day of industrial action in early April, well above the current rate.
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In the company's largest previous industrial action, Ryanair canceled 30 flights on July 12 when some pilots in Ireland held their first strike.
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"We are also concerned that industrial action may place the safety of our operations, our plant and our people at risk," Rieniets said.
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Since then explosive population growth, coupled with sustained industrial action by staff over pay, has increased pressures on an already cash-strapped administration.
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The CWU informed Royal Mail last month that it would ballot more than 100,000 of its members over whether to take industrial action.
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Jefferies analyst David Kerstens said that although Royal Mail's court application might delay industrial action, it is unlikely to solve the labour dispute.
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Unions said when launching industrial action last year that a review was needed, however, as none had been carried out in seven years.
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"Although we fully respect the rights of trade union members to take industrial action, (the) strike is disappointing," said Chief Executive John Barnes.
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The industrial action comes as Ryanair pilots in Ireland and the United Kingdom are holding ballots on a possible strike action in August.
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Ryanair reached its first recognition agreement with pilots in its largest market of Britain earlier this year where it has avoided industrial action.
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Large-scale industrial action is rare in Kazakhstan whose government, according to international human rights groups, has cracked down on independent trade unions.
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On Tuesday, a quarter of all railway workers walked out, down from more than half on Thursday, the first day of industrial action.
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Air France staff began their first of 6900 days of industrial action throughout April over a demand for a 2628-percent wage increase.
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Those strikes received glowing national media coverage — a rarity for the labor movement, where strikes and industrial action are typically overlooked by the press.
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If so, this will be one of the first times that ride-sharing firms have had to negotiate as a result of industrial action.
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Alcoa also said there had been an "operational issue" at the Pinjarra alumina refinery over the weekend that was "unrelated" to the industrial action.
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Any PPC move to sell assets is likely to stir controversy, and labor unions have already warned of industrial action if it goes ahead.
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Some Irish pilots are planning to strike on July 12 and some other pilot unions have said they will consider industrial action this summer.
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Farmers and merchants in Latin America's largest economy have been unable to get their supplies to port during the nine days of industrial action.
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Ryanair has never been subject to a pilot strike, although baggage handlers took industrial action briefly in 1998 and does not recognise trade unions.
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The Croatian national carrier has asked a Zagreb court to review whether the industrial action at the peak of the tourist season is legal.
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"Today's forecast: Cloudy with a chance of industrial action," tweeted author Campbell McConachie, along with a screenshot of a forecast with the union hashtags.
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The last time junior doctors took industrial action was in 1975 over non-payment for work done outside the standard 40-hour working week.
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The state rail operator SCNF has planned three months of industrial action with strikes planned for two days out of five until June 28.
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Between 2009 and 2011, BA suffered two years of bitter industrial action as it tried to cut 1,700 cabin crew jobs and freeze pay.
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"We're going to stop trade," said Julio Gonzalez Insfran, head of one of the unions calling for the industrial action at the nation's ports.
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Around 5,000 employees from across the country would be asked to participate in protests and industrial action in the coming days, the union said.
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German union UFO denied a report in German magazine Der Spiegel which said UFO had threatened to take industrial action at the airline Condor.
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The industrial action has lost momentum since President Emmanuel Macron's government made a concession over the retirement age and as strikers face financial pressure.
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Air France "regrets the SNPL's position," the company said on Wednesday, warning that industrial action would have a "significant negative impact" on the carrier.
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The industrial action has lost momentum since President Emmanuel Macron's government made a concession over the retirement age and as strikers face financial pressure.
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Unlike the last big wave of industrial action in 1995, when the government made an embarrassing U-turn, Macron seems determined to press ahead.
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Nuclear power plants in France joined the nationwide industrial action this week, as protests against a controversial labor reform law escalated into more violence.
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Union UFO has been trying to agree new contracts for Eurowings staff in Germany for two years and has been threatening industrial action for weeks.
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"The union has exhausted all the possible options that were available to prevent the industrial action," the Universities' Academic Staff Union said in the statement.
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FRANKFURT, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Lufthansa's budget airline Eurowings has called on German cabin crew union UFO to resume pay talks rather than launching industrial action.
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Subsequent rows over pay, staffing and working conditions led to a series of bitter strikes and threats of further industrial action, delaying the whole process.
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Five of the mines are working under expired employment agreements, leaving the company exposed to the risk of ongoing industrial action until matters are resolved.
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"As a result of the industrial action, we would estimate that production has been affected significantly," AWU National Secretary Daniel Walton said in a statement.
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When that country was roiled by a wave of industrial action in 2014, it translated into a 20 percent dent in global supply that year.
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Drivers began an indefinite strike on Monday, the second of the year after similar damaging industrial action in April, demanding better salaries and working conditions.
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The head of PPC's main labour union GENOP/DEH, which represents the group's 18,000 workers, warned of industrial action should the government sell PPC units.
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Athens is set to introduce legislation which could limit the frequency of strikes in the country, infuriating labor unions which regard industrial action as sacrosanct.
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"The threatened industrial action called for by KALPA is unjustified and uncalled for," it said, adding the strike fell outside the union's collective bargaining agreement.
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"Notwithstanding the result of the industrial action ballot, BALPA remains committed to finding a negotiated and agreed settlement to the current trade dispute," it said.
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The RMT was also taking industrial action on Merseyrail and Northern services, which serve cities such as Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester, also over staffing numbers.
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Royal Mail said it was "disappointed" that CWU chose to ballot for an industrial action, and that it was still in mediation with the union.
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Instead, rail workers' representatives warned the government of industrial action if it goes ahead with plans to introduce the reforms by decree, bypassing parliamentary debate.
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"However, the imposition of the closure of the scheme without agreement on replacement arrangements, while necessary, may be a trigger for industrial action," they said.
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The unions have also threatened to shut down the entire aviation industry in Africa's most industrialized nation by extending industrial action beyond state-run airline.
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The industrial action has cost Air France 300 million euros ($364 million) over 11 days, and four more strike days have already been called for May.
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ABUJA, Aug 1 (Reuters) - One of Nigeria's main oil and gas trade unions on Thursday threatened to take industrial action over a staffing dispute with Chevron.
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Along with extreme weather, terrorism and industrial action—events that are universally deemed "extraordinary"—airlines have attempted to withhold payment over bird strikes and technical faults.
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More than half a million workers at hundreds of metals and engineering companies have taken part in industrial action this month to support IG Metall's demands.
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UK'S UNITE UNION ANNOUNCES COMPLETE SCHEDULE OF DAYS FOR INDUSTRIAL ACTION COVERING ITS OFFSHORE MEMBERSHIP ON ELGIN-FRANKLIN, SHETLAND GAS PLANT, NORTH ALWYN AND DUNBAR PLATFORMS
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Despite the narrow issue, both sides accuse their opponents of having far bigger aims, turning it into the most consequential industrial action in Britain for decades.
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"Unfortunately, the industrial action which began mid-November last year heavily impacted the group's performance in the current financial period," the firm said in a statement.
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Air traffic control restrictions, industrial action, and severe weather meant easyJet canceled 2,606 flights in the quarter, up from 314 in the same period last year.
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A protected strike prohibits employers from dismissing employees for participating in the industrial action and also prevents companies from taking civil legal action against the strike.
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Public sector workers entered their 30th day of industrial action on Friday – the longest protest in France since 1986, when transport workers demonstrated for 28 days.
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Had these proposals come earlier, UAW chief negotiator Terry Dittes told GM, it could have averted the industrial action that began just before midnight on Monday.
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"Royal Mail will use all legal options at its disposal, including applying to the High Court for an injunction to prevent industrial action." the company said.
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But management have struggled to reach agreement with unions on new terms and conditions and the airline has been hit by industrial action in Germany and Portugal.
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Police officer Murali Ramba said things were returning to normal after the violence that erupted last month, the most serious anti-industrial action in years in India.
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In the case of industrial action, 335 union members would go on strike in the initial phase, which could later be escalated on a few days' notice.
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The industrial action comes as the country's center-left government, which faces an election this year, has shown a willingness to raise the pay for emergency workers.
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Oil output from Nigeria, Africa's largest crude exporter, has been volatile over the past two years due to militant attacks, pipeline theft and sabotage and industrial action.
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"The prospect of further industrial action cannot be ruled out at this stage," FORSA/IALPA union official Angela Kirk said in an interview with state broadcaster RTE.
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The EERC statement called on Ryanair pilots across Europe to join unions, which would need to form national company councils as a legal requirement for industrial action.
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Royal Mail said it is committed to further talks to reach an agreement as a matter of urgency but that there are no grounds for industrial action.
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The party would roll out sectoral collective bargaining across the economy, remove "unnecessary restrictions" on industrial action and grant "the biggest extension of workers' rights in history".
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Go-Ahead, with also runs the Southern Railway network where services have been severely disrupted by industrial action, said that it was "disappointed" to lose the contract.
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Sadly, even if BA can extend its deal with Qatar to cover the ensuing industrial action, its customers should not to get too accustomed to such high standards.
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Around two thirds of Spain's imports and exports pass through its ports, and prolonged industrial action could be especially painful for the country's automobile industry and chemical sector.
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Cabin crew in four countries have announced plans to strike on July 25 and 26 and several other pilot unions are considering industrial action to demand improved conditions.
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"Passengers and businesses are being held to ransom by the unions' wholly unjustified and unnecessary industrial action," said Nick Brown, Chief Operating Officer of Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR).
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But it has taken three years of acrimonious talks and five waves of industrial action, including the first all-out strike in NHS history, to reach a deal.
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"The Court of Appeal has today rightly dismissed BA's attempt to injunct this industrial action on a technicality," said general secretary of the pilots' union BALPA, Brian Strutton.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's union of bank employees said its members would continue to strike on Thursday, extending industrial action that has shut banks across the country this week.
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Royal Mail said it was worried by the potential for industrial action around the General Election on 12 December and in the traditionally busy run-in to Christmas.
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President Emmanuel Macron's government has already faced down street protests over labour reform and risks more industrial action over plans to reform the pension and unemployment insurance systems.
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The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) last month gave the airline notice of three days of industrial action in September, in the first ever strike by BA pilots.
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The miles-deep coal mines of Harlan County, a region of wooded Appalachian hills rising up to Kentucky's highest point, were for decades synonymous with violent industrial action.
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EDF said that about 20,000 workers in France had joined the industrial action at midday, in one of the biggest strike turnouts at the company in eight years.
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After enduring its worst-ever spell of industrial action, Ryanair said that pilots in Italy, its second-biggest market, had accepted the terms of a new collective labour agreement.
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Striking workers shut down a thermal gasoil installation at Pernis on Monday, the unions said, in the first sign of any impact from industrial action on the oil refinery.
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In September British Airways proposed the closure of a large pension scheme, angering trade unions representing workers who have taken industrial action this year in a continuing pay dispute.
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The announcement on industrial action coincided with the submission of draft legislation to parliament on Tuesday evening seeking to introduce changes to the structure of the civil aviation department.
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One reason for the delay is that Kuwait has more of a history of industrial action than the rest of the Gulf, where unions are banned or tightly controlled.
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But, in its new statement, NUPENG said it had suspended the planned industrial action following talks brokered by the state oil company that were held on Thursday and Friday.
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The industrial action has raised fears there could be fuel shortages in the OPEC member country which last week prompted NNPC to caution the public against panic fuel purchases.
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State-owned rail operator Transnet said it had suspended a number of employees at its Ngqura Container Terminal for engaging in what it said was an illegal industrial action.
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IG Metall has called for industrial action at 143 companies in North Rhine-Westphalia, the industrial heartland of Germany, including LED components firm Lumileds and Thyssenkrupp unit Rothe Erde.
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The agreement reduces the prospect of widespread social unrest over austerity measures proposed in the 2017 draft budget, though the government still faces protests and industrial action from several sectors.
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PENGASSAN's president, Francis Johnson, said there had been "a very robust engagement" and added that the union's leaders would meet on Tuesday to "take some decision" on the industrial action.
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Workers backed strike action in a consultative ballot which took place late last year with a new vote for industrial action to begin shortly whilst talks continue with the firm.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - One of Nigeria's main oil and gas trade unions said on Friday it had suspended planned industrial action related to a staffing dispute with U.S. oil major Chevron.
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BEIRUT, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Lebanon's union of bank employees said its members would continue to strike on Thursday, extending industrial action that has shut banks across the country this week.
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OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian union representing striking oil workers and employers' representatives were not talking to each other as of Thursday, days before a possible escalation of the industrial action.
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The government expects some 4,000 non-emergency operations to be cancelled during the stoppage, the first industrial action by doctors since 1975, as picket lines went up outside some hospitals.
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"It is disappointing that the CPSU has resorted to industrial action, particularly in circumstances where regional DHS offices are most impacted," she said, referring to the Department of Human Services.
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Ryanair said Forsa should continue with the mediation process that has been under way for more than a year instead of threatening what it described as "ill-timed industrial action".
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British Airways pilots began a 48-hour strike on Monday, grounding nearly all its flights and disrupting thousands the plans of travelers in unprecedented industrial action over a pay dispute.
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The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) last month gave the airline notice of three days of industrial action in September, in what is the first ever strike by BA pilots.
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"The Verdi collective bargaining commission has voted unanimously to call on Helios employees to engage in industrial action and token strikes," the trade union said in a statement on Wednesday.
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"Whether those costs will be in the form of chunky employer contributions to a new defined contribution scheme or lost revenue from industrial action remains to be seen," Hyett said.
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DUBLIN, May 19 (Reuters) - Ryanair's Irish union has given the company until May 24 to agree to new working practices, or it will ballot pilots for possible industrial action, including strikes.
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The European aerospace group is undergoing a period of transition as it attempts to move on from a period of high profile management departures, bribery probes and industrial action from employees.
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INDUSTRIAL ACTION In recent weeks Ryanair has been also been hit by the threat of fresh strike action by pilots in the United Kingdom and Ireland and cabin crew in Portugal.
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Alumina Ltd fell as much as 6.7 percent as industrial action at Alcoa's Western Australian operations, part owned by Alumina, is set to continue after workers rejected a proposed workplace agreement.
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Ryanair's main pilots union in Spain will vote in the coming days on possible industrial action, including strikes, in direct response to planned job cuts, the local SEPLA trade union said.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Three weeks after being struck by Islamic State suicide bombers, Brussels Airport was forced to close again briefly on Tuesday due to industrial action by Belgian air traffic controllers.
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Long-term industrial action is now unknown in the UK. Barbara Jackson is secretary at the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign, which is calling for a public inquiry into the incident.
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The Nigerian Industrial Court ruled that the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, which represent workers from the public and private sectors, could not proceed with the industrial action.
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Tens of thousands of New Zealand teachers staged the country's largest strike on Wednesday, and doctors, nurses and others also threatening industrial action this year for higher pay and shorter hours.
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UFO has been trying to agree new contracts for Eurowings staff in Germany for two years and staged industrial action last month that forced the carrier to cancel hundreds of flights.
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Industrial action at Chile's Escondida mine and Peru's Cerro Verde, along with a dispute over mining rights at Indonesia's Grasberg, have resulted in 2900,20.1 tonnes of lost production, Goldman Sachs estimates.
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Some companies and union officials were hopeful, telling Reuters that the strike at Escondida will not necessarily trigger a wave of industrial action elsewhere at BHP, the world's top copper exporter.
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Expectations of future jobs prospects to their weakest reading in two years, the survey said, as high profile lay-offs and industrial action overshadowed a steady fall in the unemployment rate.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - A union representing Lebanese bank employees called for a strike to continue on Wednesday, its president said, extending industrial action that shut down banks across the country on Tuesday.
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Pilots on Sunday lifted the threat of a turbulent Christmas – and an embarrassing one for Ryanair after its cancellation of thousands of flights starting in September – by calling off industrial action.
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Union leaders said in the email that they would ballot for industrial action if Tata unilaterally triggered a 60-day consultation on closing the scheme without their agreement on outstanding matters.
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The Communication Workers Union announced that a majority of its 111,000 members in Royal Mail had voted for industrial action, the first since the company was privatised four years ago. bit.
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A French grain industry body said this week that industrial action over pension reform had left 450,000 tonnes of grain, worth some 100 million euros ($9.133 million), blocked at French ports.
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A French grain industry body said this week that industrial action over pension reform had left 23,000 tonnes of grain, worth some 100 million euros ($111 million), blocked at French ports.
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A French grain industry body said this week that industrial action over pension reform had left 450,000 tonnes of grain, worth some 100 million euros ($43 million), blocked at French ports.
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The memo, sent to union members on Monday, said 90 percent of pilots balloted supported the non-binding call for industrial action, though it did not say how many pilots took part.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Virgin Atlantic could face industrial action from some of its pilots after a union representing over half of them said it is preparing to ballot members over strike action.
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ABUJA, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Nigeria's two main oil unions have prepared their members for possible nationwide industrial action over a staffing dispute with Chevron, they said in a joint statement on Saturday.
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ABUJA, Aug 2 (Reuters) - One of Nigeria's main oil and gas trade unions on Friday said it had suspended planned industrial action related to a staffing dispute with U.S. oil major Chevron .
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FABI, the biggest union representing employees in the banking sector, said that if confirmed the job cuts would be "shameful", adding it was ready to take industrial action against the planned redundancies.
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However, with other public sector workers having to wait longer for any increases, unions currently meeting this week for their annual congress have warned industrial action could follow as a "last resort".
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Workers at British insurer Legal & General have voted for industrial action over the threatened closure of a regional office, trade union Unite said on Wednesday, their first such move since the 93s.
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The flight attendants' industrial action comes as the peak summer travel season begins and coincides with the Taiwan president's first foreign trip since taking power in May — on a China Airlines flight.
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Workers at British insurer Legal & General have voted for industrial action over the threatened closure of a regional office, trade union Unite said on Wednesday, their first such move since the 1970s.
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This will now have to be agreed by 37,000 doctors who are members of the doctors' union, the British Medical Association (BMA), but industrial action has been called off in the meantime.
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O'Leary told pilots in September that there would be "consequences" for any pilots who take industrial action and that some aircraft could be taken out of bases if it were to occur.
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Ninety-eight percent of more than 37,000 junior doctors had voted to take part in industrial action, including strikes, in protest against the new employment contract proposed by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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But the industrial action involves only staff with a permanent position and Amazon brings in additional temporary workers at Castel San Giovanni during peak times such as the run-up to Christmas.
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Shares in the delivery business have fallen more than 15 percent so far this year as it faces a cocktail of headaches including declining letter volumes and rumblings of industrial action. bit.
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MELBOURNE, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Miner Alcoa said industrial action at its Western Australian operations had cut 15,000 tonnes of alumina output in August, and that it would continue to monitor the situation.
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The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, whose members mainly work in the upstream oil industry, started industrial action on Monday after talks with government agencies ended in deadlock.
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Royal Mail said the interim injunction means that no industrial action could take place before the union had balloted its members, and they had voted in favour and formally notified the company.
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The company's main pilots union in Spain will vote in the coming days on possible industrial action, including strikes, in direct response to planned job cuts, the local SEPLA trade union said.
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The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) announced late Wednesday that 80% of its members who took part in a ballot had supported the industrial action after negotiations with Ryanair reached an impasse.
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Shares in Ryanair were down 13.5 percent at 11.35 euros by 1405 GMT, their lowest in almost two years, having lost 27 percent since the industrial action ramped up in mid-July.
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In protest, train staff have begun three months of industrial action, promising to strike two out of every five days, thereby guaranteeing to inflict significant disruption to the country's public transport system.
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LONDON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Pilots for Thomas Cook Airlines are set to strike later this week in a dispute over pay after London's High Court on Wednesday refused to block the industrial action.
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The recurring operating result, down 2110 percent largely because of the industrial action, nonetheless beat analyst expectations of 1.23 million euros, based on the company's own consensus survey of 21.2 named financial institutions.
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The strike affects the operations of subcontractors to the oil industry, and could have consequences for oil and gas output in the case of prolonged industrial action, the union and employers have said.
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The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) on Monday said that 93% of the votes cast were in favour of industrial action, though the union did not yet have dates for any potential strikes.
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Len McCluskey, the General Secretary of the Unite union which has more than 1.4 million members, also told BBC radio that he would be prepared to break tough new laws on industrial action.
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But it got through Christmas without any industrial action, having made progress with a number of unions that it expects to translate into agreements with its major unions by the end of March.
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The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) expects hundreds of drivers at least to participate in the industrial action from 1200 GMT (1300 BST) on Tuesday by not signing into the app.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian drilling rigs workers will end their industrial action after the union representing 1,600 striking employees reached a deal with the group acting for their employers, the parties said on Thursday.
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IG Metall had staged a series of 24-hour strikes and threatened to ballot its members for extended industrial action if employers failed to offer concessions at Monday's sixth round of pay talks.
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"AGL will not stand by and have our customers and the broader community risk being without power in summer due to industrial action," the station's general manager, Steve Rieniets said in a statement.
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BEIRUT, Nov 12 (Reuters) - A union representing Lebanese bank employees called for a strike to continue on Wednesday, its president said, extending industrial action that shut down banks across the country on Tuesday.
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"IMPACT said the company's confirmation that it recognised the union... and would conclude a comprehensive agreement, meant the danger of industrial action had receded for the present," the union said in a statement.
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Students unhappy about changes in entry-selection criteria have mounted blockades and sit-ins at universities in several cities, while CGT union members have led industrial action at rubbish incineration site in Paris.
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The current industrial action, sparked by plans to shake up the state-owned rail company, began earlier this month with a union call for stoppages two days in every five over three months.
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Industrial action is "inevitable" on the Northern rail network, which covers a swathe of northern England including commuter services in Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne and Hull, a union boss warned. bit.
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Jetstar Group Chief Executive Gareth Evans said the airline would do all it can to protect the travel plans of customers, but they could face delays and cancelled flights if industrial action occurred.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Strikes against pension reforms shut dozens of schools and caused transport chaos around France on Tuesday but the number of people participating in the industrial action appeared to have dropped off.
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Royal Mail has about 142,000 UK employees and the CWU said on Tuesday that 73 percent of workers voted in the strike ballot, with 89 percent of its members voting for industrial action.
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The industrial action at EDF comes after President Emmanuel Macron appeared last week to have broken the back of rail strikes over reform of the SNCF state railway monopoly after parliament approved new legislation.
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MELBOURNE, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Workers at Alcoa's western Australian operations have voted to reject a proposed workplace agreement and will continue their industrial action, the Australian Workers Union said in a statement on Thursday.
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In late 2014, the firm was forced to restrict sales of fries after industrial action at US ports affected shipments of thousands of tonnes of the chain's staple accompaniment to a burger to Japan.
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DUBLIN, June 19 (Reuters) - Ryanair's Irish union extended a ballot on industrial action by two weeks on Tuesday, saying its members wanted more time to consider the move, which could lead to a strike.
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Ryanair pilots in Britain and Ireland are holding a ballot over potential industrial action and some union officials, who declined to be identified, said O'Leary was trying to deter them from voting to strike.
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He becomes the first foreign boss in Air France's 85-year history, just as it faces a resumption of industrial action that has already wiped 335 million euros ($381 million) off first-half earnings.
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Taing Meng, a lawyer representing the factory, dismissed those claims and said all the terminated workers aside from about 50 who had incited the industrial action could return and would keep their accrued benefits.
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A vote by the striking workers on whether to accept a new workplace agreement is due to close on Thursday, with the union anticipating a strong "no" vote that could prolong the industrial action.
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Over 4,000 employees who are members of the Unite union at five locations, including the Mini plant in Oxford and Rolls-Royce facility in Goodwood, were asked whether they wanted to take industrial action.
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Around two-thirds of Spain's imports and exports - a major part of Spanish economic base - pass through its ports and prolonged industrial action would be especially painful for the automobile industry and chemical sector.
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The stoppage, expected after 98.6 percent of balloted workers at Schoenefeld and Tegel airports last week backed industrial action, coincides with the world's biggest tourism trade fair, which ends in Berlin on March 12.
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LONDON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - British Airways pilots began a 48-hour strike on Monday, grounding most of the airline's flights and disrupting thousands of travellers' plans in unprecedented industrial action over a pay dispute.
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Though Ryanair flights ran as scheduled during industrial action last month, easyJet said the strikes helped to lift its revenue per seat by 0.8% in the second half, having previously expected a slight fall.
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The industrial action already on Thursday brought tens of thousands of protesters into the streets in Paris and forced the closure of parts of the Louvre Museum, home to Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa".
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"Eskom's prognosis is that the power system will take up to approximately 10 days to recover from the effects of the recent industrial action, once all staff return to work on Monday," it said.
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"Christmas flights are very important to our customers, and we wish to remove any worry or concern that they may be disrupted by pilot industrial action next week," Mr. O'Leary said in a statement.
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MNISTX-TOTAL COPPER: Prices were supported by news of industrial action at First Quantum's Cobre Panama project, "which has reduced the level of work being performed on the project", the company said in a statement.
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It was the biggest strike affecting the sector since a 16-day industrial action in 2012 cut the country's output of crude by about 503 percent and its natural gas production by about 4 percent.
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DUBLIN, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Ryanair's directly employed pilots in Ireland on Friday voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action unless the airline agrees to union pay proposals by Monday, the Forsa/IALPA trade union said.
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DUBLIN, May 20 (Reuters) - The union representing Ryanair's British pilots will hold an indicative ballot to see if there is support for industrial action over a pay dispute, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
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A strike at the oil and gas company's Grandpuits refinery has been extended until Tuesday, while CGT workers at Total's Feyzin plant have opted to continue industrial action until Thursday, CGT spokesman Thierry Defresne said.
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Ryanair sent a letter to unions in Ireland, Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal at 0800 GMT on Friday to offer talks to formalize recognition and asking for confirmation that industrial action would not proceed.
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Ireland's Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI) also said on Wednesday it would call a meeting of members next month where proposals relating to industrial action would be tabled in another clash over pay.
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It estimates the industrial action has so far cost it 29 million euros ($22 million).. Janaillac had been CEO for less than two years, running into the same union resistance to reform as his predecessor.
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En-route air traffic flow management delays in June increased by 150 percent compared with one year ago, mainly due to ATC capacity/staffing, weather and industrial action, according to data from network manager Eurocontrol.
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"Following a passionate, thoughtful and wide-ranging debate amongst junior doctors, the BMA has taken the decision to suspend planned industrial action," said Ellen McCourt, the newly elected chair of the BMA junior doctor committee.
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Irish pilots who are members of the Forsa/IALPA trade union voted overwhelmingly in favor of industrial action on Friday after accusing Ryanair of stalling on talks since pay demands were submitted in late March.
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Unite members who work for the mixed-fleet, which serve short and long haul routes, have been on strike since the beginning of July, and the industrial action is set to end on August 30.
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"This BALPA industrial action has no mandate from Ryanair pilots, is ill-timed just 10 weeks before Brexit, and will cause unnecessary disruption to customers holidays and travel plans," the airline said in a statement.
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The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, which mediates in labor disputes, ruled that Solidarity did not have a legal right to challenge Sasol's scheme in court, but could push its cause through industrial action.
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The operating result, down 41 percent year-on-year largely because of the industrial action, nonetheless beat analyst expectations of 252 million euros, based on the company's own consensus survey of 13 named financial institutions.
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The country's hard-left unions rallied supporters hoping to regain momentum at a time participation in a 36-day long public sector strike wanes and opinion polls show public backing for the industrial action dropping.
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The pilot union said in a statement that all of Lufthansa's short and long-haul flights out of Germany will be affected by the continued industrial action, planned to run until 2259 GMT on Thursday.
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The government plans to raise public sector salaries by more than 6% next year, with an additional increase to staff in education following weeks of industrial action by teachers who said their roles were undervalued.
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Two weeks of nationwide industrial action against President Emmanuel Macron's planned overhaul of the pension system have disrupted railways and roads, shut some schools and brought more than half a million people onto the streets.
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Two weeks of nationwide industrial action against President Emmanuel Macron's planned overhaul of the pension system have disrupted railways and roads, shut some schools and brought more than half a million people onto the streets.
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DUBLIN, June 11 (Reuters) - Ryanair's British pilots have signalled strong support for industrial action over pay and conditions in an indicative ballot carried out by the BALPA trade union, according to a memo seen by Reuters.
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BRUSSELS, April 12 (Reuters) - Brussels airport was closed on Tuesday and the nearby airport in Charleroi only accepted landing aircraft with no planes taking off because of industrial action by Belgian air traffic controllers, officials said.
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But the VC union said after a first meeting that it did not believe Ryanair genuinely wanted to recognise unions and said it wanted to send a message that their pilots were serious about industrial action.
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LONDON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Workers at British insurer Legal & General have voted for industrial action over the threatened closure of a regional office, trade union Unite said on Wednesday, their first such move since the 1970s.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Bank workers in Lebanon will remain on strike on Monday, the president of the Federation of Syndicates of Bank Employees told broadcaster MTV on Sunday, extending industrial action that has kept banks shut nationwide.
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Pilots in the airline's smaller market of the Netherlands added to the pressure on Tuesday by backing industrial action in a vote it said was a necessary "wake up call" in talks with the union there.
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French fuels production is down by more than half, with diesel output down by around 320,000 barrels per day (bpd) and gasoline by some 170,000 bpd due to the industrial action, according to consultancy Energy Aspects.
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Five further days of industrial action have also been called for next week, raising the prospect that the shift to rival ports could have lasting consequences, especially for those handling merchandise not ultimately destined for Spain.
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"MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company is closely monitoring the situation in France where industrial action by labor unions is impacting maritime ports and overland transportation networks around the country," said a spokesman for the Swiss headquartered company.
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In a speech that followed days of protests and industrial action, Edouard Philippe outlined an overhaul of France's byzantine pension system that he said would be fairer and plug a gaping deficit in the pension budget.
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Two weeks of nationwide industrial action against Macron's pension reform, which would scrap special pensions for many public sector staff and make people work to 64 to draw a full pension, have crippled France's transport network.
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BALPA said that the indicative ballot would be followed by an official ballot if it opted for industrial action but that it intended to reach a negotiated settlement without the need for escalation, "if at all possible".
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The Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) pilots' union had planned a 22.5-hour walkout on Wednesday but late on Tuesday said it would be extended to Thursday after two courts rejected attempts by Lufthansa to halt the industrial action.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Pilots in Ryanair's home country Ireland on Thursday announced two more one-day strikes, increasing pressure on Europe's largest low-cost carrier to improve conditions to stave off a wave of industrial action across Europe.
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SNCF boss Guillaume Pepy, who backs the shake-up of the heavily indebted company, on Sunday said the strike was slowly losing its momentum, citing a falling number of train drivers taking part in the industrial action.
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The deals themselves also required unions to sign away their right to strike providing agreed milestones were met - another feat unlikely to be reproduced in France, where legal constraints on industrial action are fewer and hotly contested.
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"We have the tool of 183-hour warning strikes at our disposal, and of course we always have the option to ballot for open-ended industrial action," IG Metall chief Joerg Hofmann told Reuters TV on Wednesday.
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DUBLIN, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Ryanair on Thursday urged its German pilots not to take part in a four-hour strike called for Friday that would be the first such industrial action taken by the Irish carrier's pilots.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - More workers at South African state-run power utility Eskom joined a strike over pay, their union said on Wednesday, in defiance of a court order preventing the industrial action at the state-run firm.
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LONDON (Reuters) - There will be a pause in industrial action among British Airways' mixed-fleet cabin crew in a bid to resolve a conflict over pay and penalties for striking workers, Britain's Unite Union said on Tuesday.
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A few days in advance, Labour unions must name the companies that would be hit in a first wave of industrial action, making it difficult to predict in advance how extensive an initial walk-out could be.
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Ryanair pilots eligible to vote in a ballot called by the Forsa/IALPA trade union, which does not include contractors, overwhelmingly backed the call to engage in industrial action and will strike for 24 hours next week.
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There have been several strikes by pilots based in Dublin, and the company announced on Wednesday that it was cutting back its services there this winter, blaming the industrial action for a downturn in bookings and fares.
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"The power system remains constrained with the risk of stage 1 load-shedding remaining high for this evening due to a shortage of capacity from the effects of the recent industrial action," Eskom said in a statement.
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Over 92 percent of the airline's scheduled 2,400 flights will be unaffected by the industrial action in Spain, Belgium, Holland, Portugal, Italy and Germany as "the vast majority of our people will work as normal," the airline said.
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The General Confederation of Labor (CGT), a huge umbrella group which held off joining industrial action by other unions in April, said they supported a strike on May 29, union leaders Héctor Daer and Carlos Acuña told reporters.
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South Africa's biggest platinum mine workers' union and the industry have failed to reach a deal on pay, the union said on Monday, raising the prospect of industrial action in the world's top producer of the white metal.
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On Thursday, the union issued a statement in which it said it was prepared to take industrial action if certain demands, including the return to work of all "NUPENG executives", were not met by Chevron within 7 days.
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"We continue to pursue every avenue to find a solution to protect our customers' travel plans and avoid industrial action and we urge BALPA to return to talks as soon as possible," the airline said in a statement.
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OSLO, July 19 (Reuters) - Close to 1,600 striking workers on Norwegian drilling rigs will end their industrial action after their union and the lobby group reprensenting their employers reached a deal, the Norwegian Shipowners' Association said on Thursday.
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Barely 214,29.5 attended one Paris rally on Tuesday to protest against the reforms, a fraction of the hundreds of thousands who went on strike in the heyday of French industrial action freezing activity in swathes of the economy.
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BEIRUT, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Bank workers in Lebanon will remain on strike on Monday, the president of the Federation of Syndicates of Bank Employees told broadcaster MTV on Sunday, extending industrial action that has kept banks shut nationwide.
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HAMBURG, Jan 9 (Reuters) - German industrial workers are widening industrial action on Tuesday, with tens of thousands of staff at metals and engineering companies expected to down their tools in support of wage claims by union IG Metall.
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The deal, agreed in a fourth round of talks, came after an escalating series of one-day walkouts by staff at Europe's largest telecoms company that coincided with industrial action by public sector workers also represented by Verdi.
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On Tuesday, industrial action is also scheduled in Bavaria, home to premium carmaker BMW and engineering group Siemens, where the union is threatening to shift from short warning strikes lasting only a few hours to full-day stoppages.
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The comments came after state-owned rail operator Transnet said it had suspended a number of employees at its Ngqura Container Terminal for engaging in an illegal industrial action, which has had a negative impact on port operations.
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Royal Mail said then that the interim injunction meant that no industrial action could take place before the union held a "lawful" ballot of its members, and that they had voted in favour and formally notified the company.
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So too is the hard-left CGT, which is spearheading public sector strikes now in their 12th day and threatening to intensify the industrial action in the build up to Christmas if Macron does not pull the reform.
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The planned industrial action is part of a longstanding dispute after Grupo Mexico fired the mine's workforce and reopened it in 2010, following a federal judge's ruling that a nearly three-year strike over a labor dispute was illegal.
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"Following a continuing failure by the Wood Group to come up with any solutions in talks...the next phase of industrial action scheduled to start in the morning goes ahead," the RMT said in a statement on its website.
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Between the three-day weeks of 1974, when a miners' strike led to electricity being rationed, and the "winter of discontent" in 1979, when a range of public services were paralysed by industrial action, Butskellism passed over the horizon.
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Forsa said that industrial action was backed by 94% of the 180 directly employed pilots eligible to vote and the union will write to management early next week to outline its plans if the pay demands are not met.
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Industrial action is also scheduled to the south in Bavaria, home to premium carmaker BMW and engineering group Siemens, where the union is threatening to shift from short warning strikes lasting only a few hours to full-day stoppages.
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"Workers' rights should not stop at the cockpit door," Nicoley Baublies, UFO board member for pay policy said in a statement on Tuesday, adding cabin crew would also consider industrial action if Ryanair did not negotiate with them too.
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" It said in a statement that its proposed pay deal of 11.5 percent over three years was fair but "we continue to pursue every avenue to find a solution to avoid industrial action and protect our customers' travel plans.
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ABUJA, May 22 (Reuters) - A Nigerian union that defied a court ban to launch a general strike in protest at a hefty increase in fuel prices has suspended the industrial action after five days, its president said on Sunday.
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The industrial action at France's flag carrier - marking the fifth day of worker stoppages over the past month and a half - has began to overlap with nationwide rolling train strikes, as rail unions protest against President Emmanuel Macron's reforms.
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LONDON — Ryanair cabin crews in several European countries went on strike on Wednesday, the start of a planned two days of industrial action that has forced the low-cost carrier to cancel hundreds of flights, affecting around 50,000 passengers.
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The public sector strikes are now in their 43rd day but the industrial action has lost momentum since Macron's government made a concession over the age of retirement and as strikers face mounting financial pressure to return to work.
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ZAGREB (Reuters) - The Croatian government and teachers on Monday agreed a pay deal to end industrial action that began in October and included a nationwide strike that has halted all classes in primary and secondary schools since Nov. 19.
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The moderate CFDT's entry into the industrial action marks a perilous escalation for Emmanuel Macron, just as more hardline unions show no sign of backing down in a battle of political will that could make or break his presidency.
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"There's no doubt that industrial action is expensive and frustrating, but we have to hold the line on costs or it threatens the long term sustainability of our business," Jetstar Group Chief Executive Gareth Evans said in a statement.
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With doctors also balloting for industrial action and nurses warning of the same, the disputes are putting pressure on a deal the government agreed with most trade unions last year to gradually restore some of the pay cuts by 2018.
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DUBLIN, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Ryanair's main pilots union in Spain will vote in the coming days on possible industrial action, including going on strike, in response to planned job cuts at the low cost carrier, the local SEPLA trade union said.
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"BMW needs to reflect on this extraordinary vote in favour of industrial action and the real possibility that its UK workforce will strike for the first time under its ownership in the coming weeks," Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey said.
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ZAGREB (Reuters) - University staff in Croatia piled pressure on the government on Wednesday as their union said it would strike in support of industrial action by primary and secondary school teachers that has been going on for nearly two weeks.
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This time around the Nigerian Industrial Court blocked industrial action due to the risk of civil disorder, but late on Tuesday the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said it would go ahead with its planned indefinite strike anyway, starting on Wednesday.
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Sorohan declined to comment on the likelihood of disruption in coming weeks, but described the timing of ballots for industrial action as "a little bit unusual" given concerns around the MAX and Brexit and said the airline was open to talks.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Transit, the transportation network that handles commuter traffic into New York City from the state, on Thursday released plans for a possible strike on March 13, warning of major disruption if the industrial action goes ahead.
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Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and Nigeria Union Of Petroleum And Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) said they "will not hesitate to embark on nationwide industrial action" and had put members on "red alert" to do so.
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The full-day walkouts, due to end late on Friday, are IG Metall's last warning shot before votes are cast on whether to take extended industrial action that could cost German companies hundreds of millions of euros in lost production.
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NEW DELHI, June 8 (Reuters) - More than half the members of Air India's pilot union have threatened industrial action because of delays in getting their salaries, according to a letter written by the members and seen by Reuters on Friday.
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While it has quelled the disputes through a series of staff agreements, one of the unions Ryanair has yet to strike a deal with, Britain's BALPA, said on Monday that it would gauge pilots' support for industrial action over pay issues.
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The airline sent a memo to Dublin pilots on Wednesday saying it would freeze promotions, cut cash allowances and possibly move pilots to alternative bases if pilots working out of Dublin support industrial action at ballots on Wednesday and Thursday.
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The BMA said its decision to suspend the action follows feedback from doctors, patients and the public, and discussions with NHS England about the ability of the NHS to maintain a safe service if industrial action were to go ahead.
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LONDON, July 31 (Reuters) - Britain's Court of Appeal has rejected an attempt by British Airways to stop proposed strike action by its pilots, the pilots' union said on Wednesday, calling on the company to hold more talks to prevent industrial action.
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Air France-KLM fell 1% after it said slowing travel demand was likely to hurt ticket sales in the remainder of the year, while British Airways owner IAG said industrial action by pilots at the airline had knocked third-quarter profits.
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Pilots in Ireland, Ryanair's home country, held a strike for the first time on Thursday as they demanded better conditions from Europe's largest low-cost carrier, which is trying to stave off a wave of industrial action across its network.
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PARIS, June 15 (Reuters) - French state-controlled utility EDF has been notified of a 24-hour strike starting on June 21, the company said on its website, but EDF did not say if the industrial action would cut French electricity output.
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"They (pilots) feel they have been forced into contemplating potentially disruptive industrial action by a company that seems either unwilling or unable to negotiate in a professional and constructive manner," Forsa's assistant general secretary, Ian McDonnell, said in a statement.
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The spokesman said the CGT, FO and CFE-CGC unions had called for the industrial action but no reason was given, adding that it was unclear how many workers would join the strike or if the stoppage would impact electricity production.
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The IG Metall union has called for full-day walkouts through Friday, firing a last warning shot before it ballots for extended industrial action that could be crippling to companies reliant on a supply chain of car parts and other components.
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While the strikes are the longest running in decades, they have failed to paralyse France in the way achieved by a wave of industrial action in 1995 that forced a government u-turn from which the prime minister never recovered.
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An escalation to 24-hour strikes is the union's last warning shot before it ballots its members for extended industrial action that could be crippling to companies reliant on a well-oiled supply chain of car parts and other components.
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SYDNEY, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Budget airline Jetstar's pilots have voted in favour of industrial action that could delay flights in the coming weeks after failing to agree on a pay deal, the Australian Federation of Air Pilots (AFAP) said on Friday.
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LISBON, April 24 (Reuters) - European unions representing Ryanair cabin crew on Tuesday gave the airline until June 30 to adopt national employment laws for all their workers or face industrial action during the summer, the unions said after meeting in Lisbon.
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"If Ryanair fails to comply with these terms, the undersigned unions will initiate all the statutory and legal procedures to call a coordinated industrial action, including the use of strike action, during the summer of 2018," they said in a statement.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Striking workers at Royal Dutch Shell's Pernis plant in the Netherlands have taken offline a thermal gasoil installation, a Dutch union said on Monday, in the first sign of any impact from industrial action on Europe's largest oil refinery.
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The VC union, which was responsible for Ryanair's first ever pilot strike a year ago, said the two sides planned to sign a full collective labor agreement (CLA) by next March and no industrial action would be taken before then.
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Protests against the ride hailing app have appeared to have a negative effect, such as the 2014 London black cab strike which reportedly precipitated an 850 percent increase in signups to Uber as a result of publicity from the industrial action.
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ABUJA, July 7 (Reuters) - A Nigerian trade union representing oil workers said it had begun a strike on Thursday, but added that the effect of its industrial action would not be felt for some time because it started on a public holiday.
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ZAGREB, Oct 23 (Reuters) - University staff in Croatia piled pressure on the government on Wednesday as their union said it would strike in support of industrial action by primary and secondary school teachers that has been going on for nearly two weeks.
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In a statement, the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) said it was prepared to take industrial action if the U.S. oil major did not comply with its wishes within seven days over a reduction of the company's workforce.
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Low commodity prices could exacerbate tensions and conflict in the Middle East, increase public protest in Latin America, and worsen industrial action in Africa's resource-rich countries, Verisk Maplecroft, a global political risk consultancy, warned in a 2016 outlook report published Friday.
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Verisk Maplecroft forecast that job losses at mines as a result of the decline in commodity prices would provoke industrial action and social unrest in countries including the Central African Republic, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa and Nigeria.
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Last month, Unite said it would hold a total of eight strikes at four sites, including the Mini and Rolls-Royce factories, after 93 percent of employees backed industrial action in protest at plans to close the firm's final salary pension schemes.
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Portugal's SPAC trade union this week announced that its members, which it says include a majority of Ryanair pilots based in the country, had voted to give it a mandate to call for industrial action up to and including a full strike.
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Scotland's Unite union said that 500 workers at Diageo's Cameron Bridge, Leven and Shieldhall sites have voted in support of industrial action, with strikes at the company's distilling and bottling plants now likely to begin in September and go on till November.
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The administration has shown no sign of budging from its position, so on May 20, the graduate students voted 1,134 to 112 in favor of an "industrial action"—effectively a strike, though they can't call it that because they're not officially unionized.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ryanair's pilot union in Ireland said further industrial action is possible after Thursday's 24-hour strike and warned it would only restart negotiations with management if it was convinced that talks would be meaningful and on a level playing field.
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Reuters has not verified the newspaper reports, and cannot vouch for their accuracy: British Airways began a 48-hour strike on Monday, grounding most of the airline's flights and disrupting thousands of travellers' plans in unprecedented industrial action over a pay dispute.
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Beyond the SNCF, the government also has to deal with CGT-led industrial action in the energy sector, which has halted output at some oil refineries, although police have broken up fuel depot pickets in recent days to head off major shortages.
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BEIRUT, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Lebanon's banks will not join a three-day general strike slated to begin on Thursday, the Association of Banks in Lebanon said on Wednesday, distancing itself from industrial action intended to press politicians to form a new government.
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PARIS, Jan 24 (Reuters) - France's hardleft trade unions on Friday threatened industrial action for months to come, as they searched for a way to force President Emmanuel Macron to ditch the biggest overhaul of the country's pension system since World War Two.
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But he also said he was considering forcing pilots to change their holiday plans and warned that any pilot who failed to show up for work as a form of industrial action would be frozen out of pay talks and denied promotion.
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Ryanair's chief financial officer, Neil Sorohan, said the timing of plans by its pilots in the United Kingdom and Ireland to ballot for possible industrial action in August was "unusual", given concerns around the MAX and Brexit, but said the airline was open to talks.
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Powerful German union IG Metall has called for full-day walkouts through Friday, firing a last warning shot before it ballots for extended industrial action that could be crippling to companies reliant on a well-oiled supply chain of car parts and other components.
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Strikes are not uncommon in aviation — British Airways' cabin crew staged 85 days of industrial action across 2016-17 — but Ryanair's are particularly damaging, as the airline is unable or unwilling to take expensive mitigation measures such as hiring replacement aeroplanes with external crews.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Thousands of air passengers were stranded in Kenya on Wednesday after a strike by aviation workers at the main Nairobi airport led to the cancellation and delay of scores of flights and the use of riot police to break up the industrial action.
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The full-day walkouts, which are due to end late on Friday, are labour union IG Metall's last warning shot before votes are cast on whether to take extended industrial action that could cost German companies hundreds of millions of euros in lost production.
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"BMW bosses would do well to heed the growing sense of betrayal over their broken pension promises, which have already seen 96 per cent of workers saying they would take industrial action in a consultative ballot," Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey said in a statement.
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Ryanair's chief financial officer, Niall Sorohan, said the timing of plans by its pilots in the United Kingdom and Ireland to ballot for possible industrial action in August was "unusual", given concerns around the MAX and Brexit, but said the airline was open to talks.
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More moderate unions involved with the CGT in the industrial action at the state-owned SNCF railway group also kept their distance from the Communist-rooted CGT as it asked others to join the protest action by striking or taking part in street marches.
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The union leaders all said industrial action was set to continue, but Berger said his union was also open to negotiation if the government proved willing in the weeks ahead, before the law on the SNCF reform goes to the Senate on May 29.
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Instead, French refiner demand has been subdued as they slowly unloaded the roughly 19 million barrels of crude that was stranded on tankers during the strikes, and strategic stock agencies also gave companies three months to return what they took during the industrial action.
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SYDNEY, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Budget airline Jetstar said on Monday it would cut domestic capacity by around 10% in January due to industrial action by pilots and it was considering the sale of three Boeing Co 787-8 jets serving loss-making international routes.
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Unite had threatened to hold a ballot on industrial action in response to the Wood Group withdrawing a long standing payment for permit holder workers who receive a daily payment to carry out safety duties at the site near Peterhead, eastern Scotland, it added.
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Mathunjwa warned last week of unspecified industrial action by his Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) at Implats over its plans to cut around a third of its workforce, in a bid to return to profits in the face of depressed prices and soaring costs.
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As well as embarrassing an already deeply unpopular government, the labor reform dispute has put a spotlight on the battle for influence between France's two largest unions, the CGT and the CFDT, whose refusal to join strike calls could blunt the impact of the industrial action.
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Chief Financial Officer Niall Sorohan declined to comment on the likelihood of disruption in the coming weeks, but described the timing of ballots for industrial action as "a little bit unusual" given concerns around the MAX and Brexit and said the airline was open to talks.
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Mr Corbyn's plans to restore the trade unions' powers could be particularly important here: a Corbynite government will have a reserve army of workers, many of them employed in the public sector or in "strategic" parts of the private sector that are vulnerable to industrial action.
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"Job losses in the extractives sector of Africa's resource-rich countries are expected to provoke industrial action, while the impacts of depressed oil, gas and metals prices on domestic government spending and rising living costs across the region are likely to stoke social turmoil," the consultancy said.
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LONDON, July 23 (Reuters) - British Airways lost a legal bid to block pilots from going on strike in its busy summer holiday season, but Britain's pilot union has yet to set any dates for industrial action as the airline said it plans to appeal the decision.
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Ryanair pilots who are members of the Irish Airline Pilots Association (IALPA) will meet in Dublin on Tuesday to decide whether to hold a ballot for "industrial action up to and including strike action", with voting to begin on or before Thursday, July 25, the memo said.
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NEW YORK, March 3 (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said on Thursday that he would not 'give away the store' in negotiations with transport unions threatening to strike on March 13, but said he was hopeful a deal would be reached to avert industrial action.
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"With a vote strongly in favor of industrial action, the members of the biggest union have just declared a strike at Cerrejon," Igor Diaz, president of the larger Sintracarbon union, said in a message to Reuters, adding that 282.50% of the 903,290 votes supported downing tools.
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"If it is not possible to immediately negotiate the introduction of such a Seniority Agreement, it is our intention to escalate this matter as a matter of urgency, to seek sanction for industrial action up to and including strike action should that be necessary," the letter said.
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Lufthansa indicated up 0.6 pct Air Berlin indicated up 0.9 pct Trade union Verdi agreed a three-year pay deal for its 2,000 workers at Berlin airports, ending the threat of further strikes after industrial action caused the cancellation of some 2,000 flights in recent weeks.
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The union, representing most pilots at the Qantas Airways Ltd subsidiary, voted in favour of industrial action which it said would also include bans on working on days off and outside a published roster, as well as not agreeing to extend flying duties beyond the existing limits.
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The DUP's Gavin Robinson, who is fighting to retain his Westminster seat in East Belfast, said O'Neill should "lead her team back into the Assembly where decisions can be made", rather than "taking selfies on picket lines" outside hospitals where staff are engaged in industrial action.
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The High Court in London ruled that dispute resolution procedures must be followed before any industrial action, Royal Mail said in a statement, adding it would contact the CWU as a matter of urgency to begin the process of external mediation, which could take until Christmas or beyond.
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"If it is not possible to negotiate the introduction of such a seniority agreement for the benefit of our member pilots directly employed by Ryanair, it is our intention to ballot our member pilots employed by Ryanair for sanction for industrial action up to and including strike action," the union wrote.
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More than 43,400 workers met in the mining hub of Singleton, New South Wales, about 200 km (125 miles) north of Sydney, this week and voted to continue industrial action that began in June against the Swiss-based company, according to a statement from the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union.
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"Our absolute priority is patient safety and making sure that the NHS delivers high-quality care 7 days a week – and we know that's what doctors want too, so it is extremely disappointing that the BMA have chosen to take industrial action which helps no-one," Hunt said in a statement.
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"Nobody should dare to underestimate the severe impact on track safety that the changes bulldozed through by London Underground have unleashed and which have forced our members to take a prolonged period of industrial action to protect both themselves and their colleagues," RMT general secretary Mick Cash said in a statement.
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Following a series of strikes by pilots in Ireland, its home country, Ryanair warned it might have to cut jobs, cautioning that its reputation for low fares could be affected by the industrial action The Turkish lira fell sharply, after the central bank decided to leave its benchmark interest rate on hold, at 17.75%.
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Some worry that they will take advantage of the wealth accumulated from drug trafficking, illegal mining, kidnapping and extortion to secure political control of the areas where they have been based and from there possibly mount a popular mobilisation—farmers' blockades/strikes(paros), industrial action, demonstrations—modelled on president Evo Morales's successful route to power in Bolivia.
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BRUSSELS, March 6 (Reuters) - Air traffic control (ATC) strikes and staff shortages cost the EU economy 17.6 billion euros ($13 billion) in 2018 in the worst year of delays for air passengers in nearly a decade, industry association Airlines for Europe (A4E) said on Wednesday ATC industrial action, a lack of controllers or other structural issues were responsible for over 75 percent of delays, with the number of EU airline passengers hit up 26 percent on the previous year to 334 million, the industry body said, citing Eurocontrol data.
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