Workers such as these Starbucks employees in St. Anthony, Minn., increasingly went on strike in 2022.
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Workers have filed the most union petitions since 2015 and the number of strikes have surged, but whether this turns into a sustained increase in membership rates is still unclear.
Catholic faithful stage a peaceful protest to condemn the rampant killing in Benue State, North Central of Nigeria.
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Through articles written by academic experts in the course of the year, The Conversation Africa takes a second look at Nigeria in 2022.
Rail workers have been striking for months but more industries have announced industrial action recently.
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Unions are calling on the government to negotiate on pay, here’s how it could mediate discussions between employers and unions.
Is this the new Jim Callaghan?
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With everyone from rail workers to civil servants going on strike over the winter, it’s hard to see this ending well.
The film’s Lady Chatterley and her Mellors have an easier path to love than their literary counterparts.
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D.H. Lawrence’s book is a seething commentary on class, exposing his fears for Britain’s future. But the film is a romantic period drama.
University staff on strike in 2019.
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University staff to walk out for three days in what may be the largest ever in the higher education sector.
The federal government sent troops to crush an 1877 rail strike.
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President Joe Biden called on Congress to intervene to avoid a strike that he said would ‘devastate our economy.’
Unionised RMT staff standing at a picket outside Euston station back in October.
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From unions and ballots to picket-lines and sympathy strikes.
When University of Manitoba Faculty Association went on strike and hit the picket lines in 2016, the association raised issues about having a greater say over ever-increasing workloads, appropriate use of metrics in evaluation and job security.
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Education strikes by university and public school workers are political fights about diminished respect for education as a public good and workers’ rights in an economy that perpetuates inequality.
Lower earners are counting the cost of a growing wage gap.
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The pay gap is growing in UK, which has seen increased strike activity this year.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford sits in the Ontario legislature during Question Period as members debate a bill meant to avert a planned strike by 55,000 education workers.
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The Ontario government’s latest use of the notwithstanding clause is at odds with its stated intention to keep kids in school amid a labour dispute — and at odds with the heart of labour relations norms.
The pandemic and a health workers’ strike disrupted essential health services.
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Outpatient visits, screening and diagnostic services, and child immunisation were particularly negatively affected.
A strange thing happens when we think about prices.
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When we look at certain prices, we jump to conclusions about inflation rates that are not accurate.
A group of recent university graduates in Nigeria.
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Nigeria’s lecturers’ strike raises fundamental questions about how Nigerian universities are run and funded.
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Nigeria’s public university system has lost about 57 months to industrial action since 1999. This has implications for the future workforce.
The U.S. depends on trains to transport almost half of all freight.
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Workers still need to approve the deal, which was brokered by President Biden in 20 hours of last-minute negotiations.
With the rise of quiet quitting, could the days (and nights) of staying late at the office be over?
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Doing just the duties that your job requires has a long history in the labour movement.
A protester holds a placard as workers show solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
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Public universities in Nigeria have been bedevilled by lecturers’ strikes for years. To break the cycle, the union insists the institutions should be adequately funded.
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Ongoing strike action by criminal barristers could disrupt trials until demands for better pay are met.
The University of Lagos is one of the institutions affected by the lecturers’ strike in Nigeria.
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Creating more universities in Nigeria has serious implications for quality of graduates.