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Some 2,000 employees in Finland's technology sector will begin a strike in two weeks time if no agreement is reached in labor talks with company managers, union leaders said Wednesday.
Airport officials in Kansas City say a passenger jet struck a flock of birds shortly after takeoff and returned to land safely.
Ford Motor Co. said Saturday union concerns over working conditions at its assembly plant in Kansas City have been resolved. But a union officer said members were moving ahead with a planned strike authorization vote.
The U.N. food chief said Saturday he was chilly but otherwise slept OK after his first night on a hunger strike to draw attention to the plight of the world's hungry before next week's U.N. food summit.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is planning to join a 24-hour fast to spotlight the plight of the more than one billion people around the world who go to bed hungry every night.
Thousands of Arizona supermarket workers won't go on strike as they planned Friday night after union leaders and two grocery chains announced a tentative labor deal 12 hours before the protest was to begin.
Flight attendants at American Airlines say they will hold mock strikes around the country this month and could seek permission for real strikes early next year.
The union representing Britain's postal workers says it will call off strikes planned for later this week — and remain at work through the December holidays — after reaching an interim agreement with the Royal Mail.
Life began returning to normal Monday for commuters who spent the previous work week frazzled from a public transit strike, and many expressed relief that buses and trains were running again but remained angry about the transit workers' walkout.
A Guantanamo prisoner who has been on hunger strike for more than four years is in critical danger from malnutrition, his lawyers said Tuesday. U.S. officials insist his weight loss is not an immediate health risk.
The Philadelphia transit system's largest union went on strike early Tuesday, stalling the city's bus, subway and trolley operations a day after the World Series shifted to New York and forcing thousands of commuters to find other ways to get to work.
A top German general said Thursday that a NATO investigation of an airstrike against a pair of hijacked Afghan tanker trucks showed the attack was appropriate and that it could not be confirmed that "uninvolved persons" were killed.
All that remains of the abandoned South Carolina textile mill that was the site of the deadliest violence during a national labor strike 75 years ago are crumbling brick walls, creaky wood floors and whispers of the tragedy.
More than 150 Venezuelan university students ended a hunger strike Wednesday after the Organization of American States agreed to hear their concerns over alleged political persecution by President Hugo Chavez's government, a protest leader said.
In Britain, the check is in the mail — for the indefinite future.
A lightning bolt killed five children at their school in northwest Cameroon as they were preparing to begin their school day, a local doctor said Wednesday.
Pilots at India's Jet Airways resumed work Sunday ending a five-day strike that led to the cancellation of more than 800 flights, company officials said.
The union representing striking pilots and flight engineers at a South Florida air cargo company said Friday a tentative agreement up for a vote this weekend would make improvements including putting bathrooms on the planes at Amerijet International Inc.
Students reported for class Thursday at a suburban Detroit university hours after professors reached a tentative agreement that ended a weeklong strike.
Teachers in Washington state's fourth-largest school district have approved a new contract and are heading back to the classroom.
A lightning strike that hit a parked plane at Mexico City's airport has sent four employees working nearby to the hospital.
Flying a Boeing 727 around the world might sound like a dream. But pilots for a Florida air cargo company claim their job is a nightmare that includes no sick pay, shrinking wages and no place to use the bathroom on flights but a plastic bag.
Students reported for class Thursday at a suburban Detroit university hours after professors reached a tentative agreement that ended a weeklong strike.
Members of a commuter rail union in the San Francisco Bay area are voting on a new contract aimed at averting a strike.
Zimbabwean doctors have called off a three-week strike over low wages.
Philly transit system strike endsRepresentatives of Philadelphia's transit system and its largest union signed a contract early Monday, bringing an end to a strike that idled the city's subways, buses and trolleys for six days.
BA Christmas strike threat increasesThe threat of British Airways being hit by a Christmas strike has increased with the Unite trade union paving the way for walkout during one of the busiest weeks of the year.
Nurses' Union Plans to Strike/One-Day Event at 39 California, Nevada Hospitals Is Focused on Swine-Flu PrecautionsA union is threatening a one-day strike involving 16,000 registered nurses at 39 hospitals in California and Nevada, saying hospitals aren't providing enough protections against swine flu for its members.
Pizza workers strike over Internet pornI cannot imagine how much fun it is to work at a pizza-making plant. Indeed, the mere fact that there exist plants to make pizza seems entirely unedifying to me.
New charges at Zambia porn trialTwo Zambian journalists have been charged with contempt of court after publishing an article in support of their news editor who is on trial. The journalists say charges against Chansa Kabwela - that she distributed obscene material - should be dropped.
Workers strike after health care yanked :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Unionized workers launched a strike at SK Hand Tool Corp.'s Chicago and McCook sites Tuesday after the company dropped employees' health insurance coverage without notice, according to a Teamsters official.
SF Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) sets strike for midnight Sunday(08-13) 16:11 PDT Oakland -- BART workers will strike beginning at midnight Sunday, the union that represents train operators and station agents announced this afternoon.
Coptic community reacts to calls for strike via FacebookCopts call for a strike on Coptic New Years to urge the Egyptian government to adopt uniform laws on constructing and renovating houses of worship, and abandon sectarian policies.
Strike at own peril, angry state workersThere's loud posturing going on in Sacramento as two large public employee unions make noises about striking to protest pay cuts and layoffs that were made to balance the state budget.
Members of state workers union grant authorization for strikeWith so many Californians out of work, it is very disappointing that these employees have voted to walk away from their jobs," said Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear.
California State Workers Strike?I say let them strike!......replace them with any of the many un-employed who are qualified, who have had a crash course in humility and a rude awaking that nothing is forever, I'm sure they'd do their job without the attitude, something we have all learned to accept but neve …
In an unprecedented move by SEIU Local 1000 union members, the vote on whether or not to authorize "job actions up to and including a strike if necessary" has PASSED by a phenomenal margin of 74%.
Several weeks ago, the executive board of SEIU 1000 voted to take "concerted job actions up to and including a strike if necessary", but they couldn't take those actions without SEIU 1000 member approval.
TheStar.com | GTA | Strike puts sexual health at riskToronto will see a spike in sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies with public health nurses on strike, sexual health experts say.
Here's how Israel would destroy Iran's nuclear programThey can read about all the possible scenarios for a strike on Iran, and about the potential risks and chances of success, in a study by Abdullah Toukan and Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Jupiter Apparently Smacked by Rogue Object, New Images Reveal - Yahoo! NewsJupiter has apparently been smacked again by a rogue object hurtling through space, new images from amateur astronomers and NASA reveal.
Zambia's arrest of editor triggers outrageZambia's Catholic bishops are condemning the arrest of an editor who illustrated the consequences of a health workers' strike by e-mailing photos of a woman giving birth in the streets.
Woman saved by lightning strikeA WOMAN suffering from a deadly heart condition got two shocks when she was struck by lightning - after it cured her illness. Nada Acimovich, 51, was battling arrhythmia — an irregular heartbeat that can be a killer — before she was zapped.
iPod saves 14 year-old girl from lightning strikeA teenage girl survived a terrifying lightning strike after she was saved by the wire of her iPod. Schoolgirl Sophie Frost and her boyfriend Mason Billington, both 14, stopped to shelter under a tree when a storm struck as they were walking near their homes.
CUPE denies leak, may amp up strike activitityHow do you ramp up a strike that has already had violence and property damage? I guess we are about to find out, becauce Jim Wood seems to think this is acceptable!
Talks off; CUPE accuses city of unfair labour practicesENOUGH! I wonder who walked away from the table this time?!?!?
City unveils strike contingency plan - Posted TorontoAnd now for the big show... could it be that this was what Windsor's Strike was all about all along?
CUPE, City of Windsor take break from strike talks until ThursdayCity of Windsor and CUPE take a break from strike bargaining!
Indiana Man Survives Lightning Strike Few people are ever hit by lightning. Even fewer live to tell the tale. Wendell Hansel is one of them. Hansel, 37, said he was going outside to check his boat Sunday afternoon when the world exploded in front of him.
Strike could threaten Midsummer schnapps An unofficial strike at a Systembolaget (Swedish alcohol retail monopoly) warehouse south of Stockholm is currently underway, possibly threatening the supply of Sweden's favourite holiday beverage.
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