SAS and pilots’ unions are continuing talks this morning after overnight negotiations, a union spokesman told reporters, to reach an agreement as the pilots’ strike entered its 14th day. The majority of SAS pilots in Sweden, Denmark and Norway went on strike on July 4 after talks over terms of the carrier’s rescue plan collapsed. […]
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France: Problems with train routes due to the 24-hour rail strike
Rail workers across France went on strike today, causing severe disruption to services just days before the start of the summer holidays and at a time of social unrest in other sectors of the economy as high inflation gnaws away the wages. Three of the four largest unions at SNCF, France’s state-owned railways, joined the […]
Paris airport cancels more flights today due to strike
Travel disruption due to strikes at Paris’ main airport worsened today, with France’s civil aviation authority ordering more departures grounded. Officials told airlines to cancel 20 percent of flights between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. at Charles de Gaulle Airport, down from 17% which was the decrease on Friday during these hours. The unions walked […]
Dozens of flights to Europe canceled due to strike by Ryanair flight attendants
Ryanair cabin crew members went on strike today in Belgium, Spain and Portugal in a dispute over wages and working conditions, in the latest wave of strikes by workers in various industries in Europe. The jump in inflation across the continent has resulted in millions of workers struggling with rising cost of living, leading labor […]
Chr. Pissaridis: The situation in the labor markets is even worse than in the 1970s
The labor market is in a “worse state than it was in the 1970s”, with massive rail strikes in the UK setting the stage for what will follow, according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Christoforos Pissaridis. The British Railways Union RMT Union confirmed yesterday that it was going on strike this week, after no agreement was […]
Britain: Transport minister calls railway strikes ‘huge mistake’
Britain’s Transport Minister Grand Saps today called the strikes announced by railway officials in the UK this week a “huge mistake”, warning that people would not be able to go to their scheduled hospital appointments. school exams or people in general at work. More than 50,000 railway workers will go on strike on June 21, […]
South Korea: $ 1.24 billion in industry losses due to strike by truck drivers
South Korea’s industries – including the automotive, steel, petrochemical and cement industries – were facing losses of about 1.6 trillion as of yesterday. Won ($ 1.24 billion) due to the ongoing truck driver strike, the competent ministry of the country announced today. According to the South Korean Ministry of Industry, the estimate for 1.6 trillion. […]
Norway: Oil workers’ agreement to prevent strikes
Oil companies in Norway and their workers agreed in principle on a wage level agreement, preventing for the time being strikes in nine drilling rigs that would hit the country’s oil production, workers announced today. in the mentioned field. Two of the three workers ‘unions that have negotiated with the oil companies will seek the […]
Strike in the skies: because it could be a difficult summer for travelers
The four-hour strike on Wednesday 8 June of Ryanair they could just be the first of a difficult summer for travelers. Employees of airlines, especially low cost airlines, stop already this Wednesday pilots and other personnel, and flight controllers from part of Italy. The passengers involved could be 357,000, despite the fact that the airlines […]
Strike: transport and offices at risk
Having transportation at risk on Earth Day doesn’t sound like a good resolution for the environment, but it is. The Workers Association Cobas proclaimed the abstention from work of all public and private sectors, throughout the national territory and for the entire working day of Friday 22 April. The strike was also joined by the […]
