119310 Strike Database

DATE COUNTRY PROTEST DETAILS POSITION OF GROUP

7/22/2009 CyprusFour people have been arrested in connection with verbal insults launched at Cyprus President Demetris Christofias during the anti-occupation rally at the Ledra Palace area in Nicosia. Those arrested were charged in writing for public verbal abuse and released. Éü group of youths dressed in black shouted insults directed at Christofias regarding his policy on the Cyprus issue. Speaking earlier, President Christofias said the government would not tolerate such behaviour and likened it to the kind of action which led to the events of 1974. An AKEL press spokesman said that extremist elements chose 35th anniversary of the Turkish invasion to launch their tirade. He said that it was such extremist actions that had led to the tragic events of 1974 whose effects the president is currently attempting to overturn through negotiations focusing on principles but also being flexible. AKEL also expressed the conviction that there should be no tolerance against such behaviour.Anti-Christofias

7/22/2009 PolandA second day of protest will take place, Wednesday, after traders from the Warsaw KDT shopping centre staged violent protest against the closure of their workplace, yesterday. Thirty-five people were wounded, Tuesday, as a result of vicious fighting between market traders, security guards and local police. Some of the injured, including a city guard hit with a glass bottle, were taken to hospital. Retailers were supposed to leave the market-style shopping centre by 21 July but over a thousand stall holders decided to stay and fight for their workplace. Police and security guards managed to break though a barricade built by protesters and take the building by storm, using tear gas and water cannons. A court executive officer, who entered the premises to take over the stalls, was pelted with stones, planks and bottles filled with water. In order to pave the way for him and throw the sellers out security guards sprayed tear gas in the building. The building is cordoned off by city guards and police. The retaileUnknown

7/22/2009 FrancePARIS—Workers at a Michelin tire plant in eastern France briefly locked up four managers and ransacked offices in a labor dispute amid tensions over layoffs, a company official said Wednesday. The auto and auto parts industries have been particularly hard hit by cutbacks and a backlash by French workers amid the country's worst recession in decades, and the Michelin incident was the latest example of the extremes workers are resorting to. About 50 workers at Michelin's plant in Montceau-les-Mines in eastern France locked up four managers, including the director, on Tuesday night. Unions say the dispute stemmed from a worker being punished for refusing to use machinery he wasn't trained on. The managers were released early Wednesday after regional officials offered to mediate, Michelin spokeswoman Fabienne de Brebisson said. Negotiations began at the plant Wednesday morning, she said. As tensions peaked during the "bossnapping," workers caused considerable damage to an administrative building, breaking windowsUnknown

7/22/2009 BelgiumAnother farmer's protest is set to cause traffic chaos in and around the capital. A farmers’ protest is expected to cause major traffic problems this Wednesday in Brussels. Police estimate that between three and four hundred tractors will be heading to the capital, mainly from Hainaut and Namur. The farmers from Namur will travel along the E411, chaussée de Wavre, Herman Debroux, boulevard du Souverain, chaussée de La Hulpe, and chaussée de Waterloo. Those coming from Hainaut will take the N5 and chaussée de Waterloo. The farmers will meet in the Bois de la Cambre at midday, and are expected to leave around 4.30pm via the Avenue de Tervuren. The farmers are angry with the EU Commission's rejection of their calls for higher prices for dairy products.Unknown

7/21/2009 BosniaFirefighters in the southern Bosnia and Herzegovina town of Mostar are set to block the northern entrance to the city on Tuesday, in a new protest against city officials’ failure to adopt a budget. As with all other public service workers in the town, Mostar firefighters have not received salaries for the past four months. Because of the budget crisis, they cannot pay electricity and water bills or buy fuel for their vehicles. The budget is being held up by ongoing political quarrels and manoeuvres within and between the main Bosniak and Croat parties that run Mostar. The city council has been unable to appoint a new coalition in the eight months since the October 2008 local elections. Without a new administration, Mostar has been left without a budget since March. As a result, most public and communal services – such as firefighters and soup kitchens – have been left without any funding. Firefighters, policemen and workers of several other public services and companies have already staged a number of protestUnknown

7/21/2009 PolandTraders from the Warsaw shopping centre KDT are staging a violent protest against the forced closure of their workplace by the city government. Retailers were supposed to leave the market-style shopping centre by today (21 July), but over a thousand sellers decided to stay and fight for their workplace. A regular battle between traders and security and city guards is taking place at the KDT shopping centre. An executive officer from the city courts who entered the premises to take over the stalls, was pelted with stones, planks and bottles filled with water. In order to pave the way for him and throw the sellers out, security guards sprayed tear gas in the building. The building is cordoned off by city guards and police. The sellers who are staying inside the building are calling for help through megaphones and the angry crowd gathered outside the KDT is screaming and trying to burst in. Traders have called the police, claiming that they were attacked by security guards but the city hall spokesman Tomasz AndrUnknown

7/21/2009 Czech RepublicPrague - More than 200 researchers and their supporters protested against the reduction of subsidies given to the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague centre. The government plans to lower the volume of subsidies for the Academy by one half by 2012. In 2010, the Academy is to get 4.61 billion crowns, while this year it is 5.88 billion crowns. In 2012, the state subsidy is to be only 2.81 billion.Within the protest called Murder of Czech Science, the participants issued a verdict on Czech science and symbolically hanged the Czech scientist from a window of one of the Academy's institute.The protesters had banners with slogans that mocked the arguments of some critics.The lowering of subsidies would "in fact mean the liquidation of the Academy or at least of a large part of its institutes, including the most specialised," the organiser of the protest, Martin Krummholz, from the Art History Institute of the Academy, told journalists.Academy head Jiri Drahos recently said more or less the same. The protesting scieUnknown

7/17/2009 GeorgiaA group of people, who believe that their relatives have been arrested because of political reasons under pretext of various criminal charges, said it would hold a rally when the U.S. Vice President visits Georgia next week. Zakaria Kutsnashvili, head of the non-governmental organization Law for People and one of initiators of the rally, said it would no way be a protest rally against the U.S. Vice President’s visit. ―On the contrary, we welcome this visit; we want to convey our concerns about political prisoners in Georgia to the U.S. Vice President,‖ he said on July 16. Organizers say that they would line up on a sidewalk at the highway through which the U.S. Vice President’s convoy would pass on its way from airport to downtown Tbilisi. Rally participants would hold banners saying ―freedom to political prisoners.‖ Kutsnashvili said that dozens of opposition activists have been arrested in recent months. He, however, also said that there is another group of ―political prisoners‖ who were arrested before theUnknown

7/17/2009 GreeceProtests of Greek producers of peaches continue today online edition of Greek newspaper Elevterotipiya informed. Their blockades along the Egnatiya highway and the national highway remain as today workers pain to block other roads with tractors. Traffic police advise motorists to use alternative routes. Farmers demand compensation and a guaranteed purchase price for their produce. Today representatives of the protesters will meet in Athens with the management of Ministry of Development, which is expected to be crucial for future protests.Unknown

7/16/2009 KosovoPristina, Kosovo - Protesting Kosovo Albanian war veterans threw firebombs at the parking lot of the fledgling country's seat of government in Pristina on Thursday. Nobody was injured and there were no arrests after the incident, which came after a day of protests for a better status for the war veterans. Former fighters of the guerrilla Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) threatened to radicalize their protest, saying they would next toss Molotov cocktails at government cars if their demands are not met. "We will not allow former KLA members to live on the streets and look like beggars," a veterans' representative, Vesel Aruqi, said in Pristina. The Albanians are a 90-per cent majority in Kosovo. The KLA launched an insurgency against Belgrade's rule in the latter half of the 1990s, which led to an all-out war in 1999 and, eventually, a NATO intervention against Serbia. An interim United Nations administration was deployed after NATO ousted Serbian forces from Kosovo a decade ago. Last year, Pristina declared indepUnknown

7/15/2009 France(Newser Summary) – France's celebration of the 320th anniversary of rioters storming the Bastille was marred by major riots, Der Speigel reports. Over 300 cars were torched in cities across the country, and hundreds of arrests were made as youths hurled home-made explosives at police, injuring several officers. Authorities say the number of incidents is up from last year, despite the introduction of tough new laws to deter rioters.Unknown

7/15/2009 CroatiaDissatisfied Croatian farmers have thrown wheat on a road in the northern town of Cakovec in a warning to the government to deal with the problems of agricultural producers. The farmers are unhappy over the price of wheat (0.75 of a Croatian kuna or around 10 cents). They want the price to be increased to 1.25 Croatian kuna, the news website Index has reported. The farmers are also dissatisfied because the government’s negotiations with them were interrupted when former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader resigned earlier this month. Negotiations with the new government led by Jadranka Kosor have not yet started. The farmers are obviously nervous as the purchase of this season's wheat has already started.Unknown

7/15/2009 RussiaThe Federal Migration Service has recommended that migrant workers be banned from working as traders next year after finding numerous employment violations at Moscow’s sprawling Cherkizovsky Market. The recommendation stems from the migration service’s finding of numerous forged work permits among former traders from Cherkizovsky Market, which was closed in late June over sanitary and fire violations, migration service spokesman Konstantin Poltoranin told The Moscow Times on Tuesday. He said 2,300 migrant traders had worked at Cherkizovsky, Eastern Europe’s biggest market, and up to 1,000 of them had been employed illegally. The Migrants of Russia Federation said earlier that the market’s closure on June 29 had left about 100,000 migrants jobless. It was impossible to reconcile the figures. Poltoranin said 450 migrant workers at Cherkizovsky had officially been hired by construction firms and firms providing communal services that had sold their quotas for the employment of foreigners to firms working at CherEthnic

7/13/2009 IrelandUp to 40 farmers staged a protest outside the Department of Agriculture in Dublin today at a decision by the Government to close an environmental farming scheme to new applicants. Minister for Agriculture Brendan Smith last week announced that the Rural Environmental Protection Scheme (Reps), which rewards farmers for environmentally friendly farming, would be closed to new entrants and to those completing five-year contracts. The scheme has some 62,000 members and is estimated to be worth €8,550 on average to participating farmers. The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmer’s Association (ICSA), which organised today’s protest, said farmers had been unfairly singled out for ―more excessive cuts than any other sector‖.Unknown

7/8/2009 Russia MOSCOW, July 8 (RIA Novosti) - The police have arrested 10 protesters attempting to hold pickets in support of jailed ex-Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky in central Moscow, a local police spokesman said on Wednesday. Three people attempted to campaign against Khodorkovsky's imprisonment in front of the National and Ritz-Carlton hotels on downtown Moscow's Tverskaya Street around 7:00 p.m. (15:00 GMT) on Tuesday. U.S. President Barack Obama stayed at the Ritz-Carlton during his visit to Russia, which ended on Wednesday morning. Another seven people tried to demonstrate on Red Square at about the same time. They carried a banner with an inscription in English reading "Dear Mr. Obama, you are invited to the trial of Mr. Khodorkovsky." All the detainees were released after being charged with administrative offences, which they said they would appeal.Unknown

7/7/2009 ItalyItalian police have arrested 36 people during protests in Rome ahead of the summit of leaders of the world's eight major industrial countries. Hooded demonstrators clashed with police and set fires on streets near one of the capital's universities Tuesday. Police said citizens of France, Germany and Poland were among those arrested. Separately Tuesday, police in the town of L'Aquila seized clubs from five French protesters close to where the summit is being held. They were not arrested. About 15,000 police officers have been deployed to L'Aquila to provide security during the three-day gathering, beginning Wednesday. The G8 summit was originally scheduled to take place on an island, La Maddalena, off the Sardinian coast. Officials moved it to L'Aquila after an April earthquake shook the area and killed almost 300 people. Italian officials said the transfer was aimed at giving the area an economic boost.Unknown

7/6/2009 SerbiaPANâEVO -- Some 300 farmers from the south of the Banat region today blocked a road near Panãevo, north of Belgrade. The blockade lasted for one hour and was spurred by the low prices of wheat this season. The farmers want to sell one kilogram of the grain for RSD 17.5, instead of the current RSD 10. One of the organizers of the road block, Viktor Vo‰tinar from the Glogonje village, says that the price offered to them by buyers "doesn't even cover 70 percent of the production costs". He also warned that wheat production would be "halved" next year unless the Ministry of Agriculture "secures an appropriate price". According to Vo‰tinar, the ministry did offer a "somewhat higher" price to the farmers in southern Banat. However, he said that they want the same price to apply to the whole of Serbia. The government decided earlier that it would buy 66,000 tons of the grain for the state reserves, and pay RSD 13 per kilogram. Yesterday, Agriculture Minister Sa‰a Dragin said that this year's wheat price will be Unknown

7/2/2009 AlbaniaThree days after the parliamentary elections in Albania, the vote count was not completed, and opposition parties cautioned of possible gerrymandering by the governing party. The blockade of election process continued late Wednesday in the cities of Berat, Bushat as well as in a remote hamlet. Opposition Socialists staged a protest rally in the town of Fyer, and cautioned of election fraud and ballot box staffing. These ballot boxes were to be transferred to Central Election Commission, Makfax correspondent said.Left

7/2/2009 Romania Rail traffic in two cities in central Romania was blocked on Wednesday following protests by employees of the state-owned freight railway company CFR Marfa. The workers are protesting against a government decision to place on temporarily lay off forty per cent of CFR`s staff of 17,000, as of July 1. Last month around 6,000 CFR employees marched through Bucharest following reports that the government plans to scrap around 12,000 jobs this year. The Romanian railway network is owned by the state and employs about 80,000 people. The infrastructure requires urgent modernisation as trains run at low speed due to outdated track and signalling systems.Left

7/1/2009 Serbia LAPOVO -- The strikers of the privatized construction company 1. Maj from Lapovo have ended their blockade of a railway line near the town after several hours. The blockade of the Belgrade-Ni‰ line began on Wednesday night and ended at about 03:00 CET on Thursday. The leader of the striking committee Novica Markoviç said that the workers will block the road again on Monday if their demands are not met, which include the payment of overdue wages and fulfillment of other obligations towards the employees. Markoviç told B92 this morning that the workers would continue the strike in the administration building of the company, because they were promised that the assets needed to pay the wages would be unfrozen. The blockade began last night, after representatives of the striking committee and the majority owners of the company once again failed to reach an agreement, despite the mediation of the Labor Ministry. The workers have been on strike since April 6. Left

6/30/2009 RussiaMOSCOW (Reuters) - Gay rights activists in Moscow plan to ignore a ban and rally in favour of same-sex marriages when U.S. President Barack Obama visits next week, one of their leaders said on Monday.Left

6/30/2009 UkraineA rally to support the former head of Kirovohrad Regional State Administration Vasyl Motsny was held on the central square in Kirovohrad on Tuesday. Around 3,000 protesters from various regional organizations and enterprises gathered at the rally, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported. The protesters expressed their disagreement with the Ukrainian president's decree dismissing Motsny from the post of Kirovohrad regional governor, and demanded that he review it. The rally participants linked the issuance of this decree to an incident in the city's Holovanivsk district (in which a man was killed), and consider this to be unjust.Unknown

6/30/2009 SerbiaSerbian raspberry producers littered the streets in the town of Arilje with raspberries from their recent harvests on Sunday, in a demonstration of their dissatisfaction with this year's raspberry purchase prices. Some 1,000 raspberry producers gathered on Sunday, demanding a retail price hike for raspberries from 1.5 euros to 2 euros per kilogram. Dragan Terzic, director of the Vilmet raspberry farmers association, told the Belgrade daily Vecernje novosti that the harvest would not be stopped as raspberry farmers had invested a lot of money in production. Vilamet, the association that staged the protest, is calling on the Ministry of Agriculture to act swiftly. ―If the Ministry doesn’t come up with concrete suggestions and solutions, we will halt exports,‖ Terzic warned on Sunday, according to Vecernje novosti. With last year's production of 65,000 tonnes of raspberries, Serbia is the major world producer and exporter of raspberries and raspberry fruits are of strategic importance for the Serbian economy, acUnknown

6/29/2009 SerbiaResidents of northern Kosovo, including businessmen and transporters, continued a selective blockade of roads on Monday. They are protesting against the introduction of customs checkpoints at the Jarinje and Brnjak administrative crossings with central Serbia. Roads will continue to be blocked until the European Union mission EULEX revokes its decision on introducing customs at the administrative line with Serbia proper, Tanjug news agency quoted the protesters as saying. This action by Serbs of northern Kosovo does not have the official support of Belgrade.Unknown

6/29/2009 SerbiaLocal Serbs from Leposavic threw stones at Serbia’s governmental ministers, Goran Bogdanovic and Nebojsa Bradic, on Saturday, as the two were entering in Kosovo top mark the anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo. The demonstrators were gathered there to protest against EULEX measures launched on May 20 to tighten border controls between between Kosovo and Serbia. Commander of the station of Leposavic, Dragan Stevanovic declared that the incident happened around 12:30 afternoon on Saturday, while no injured were evidenced. Regional Kosovo police spokesperson Besim Hoti told reporters that some 20-30 people threw stones at a caravan of Serb ministers. The Serb ministers entered in Kosovo on Saturday in midday for the festivities of Vidovdan, which marks the Battle of Kosovo in 1389. Unknown

6/29/2009 AzerbaijanAzerbaijan's opposition Adalat (Justice) party was denied permission to rally in front of the Russian embassy on July 2. The Baku Administrative Body said in response to the party's letter that it considers the protest action to be inappropriate, Adalat party spokesperson Mutallim Rahimli said. "The administrative body recommended the party to appeal to relevant state bodies for fair trial for party's deputy chairman Etimad Ismayilov," Rahimli said. Etimad Ismayilov, son of Azerbaijani MP Ilyas Ismayilova, was arrested on March 26, 2008 by the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia at Domodedovo airport when he returned from Baku to Moscow. Ismayilov is with charged fraud (article 159.4) and money laundering (article 274.1) Adalat party planned to stage a protest action in front of the Russian embassy in Azerbaijan to demand fair trial for Ismayilov. The party considers administrative body's refusal to be illegal, he said. "The party has appealed to the state bodies on numerous occasions. Unfortunately, thOpposition

6/29/2009 CroatiaJihlava - Czech farmers started to block transport with lorries and tractors on roads and motorways in seven regions this morning in a protest against low purchase prices of milk which force them slaughter cows, Agricultural Chamber spokeswoman Eugenie Linkova has told CTK. Traffic jams have formed at the places of the protests. The biggest number of farmers has gathered to protest on the D1 motorway in the Vysocina region in southern Bohemia and Moravia where around 400 tractors and lorries block roads. Farmers' lorries also block traffic heading for the D5 motorway near Plzen, western Bohemia. There are also long lines of cars on slip roads at the intersection of the D1 and D2 motorways in Brno. Protests are also held on the E55 road in southern Bohemia and roads in the Olomoucky, Kralovehradecky and Pardubicky regions. The price of milk in the Czech Republic is around Kc6 a litre compared with more than Kc9 a year ago. Farmers' revenues from the sale of milk will thus drop by Kc4.5bn year-on-year this yearLeft

6/29/2009 LithuaniaStriving to attract the attention of Lithuanian authority to the fact that taxes are destroying their business, hotels and restaurants are holding the second warning protest action "Lithuania Is Closing! We Are Returning 1000 Back" on Monday, June 29. Lights will be switched off in hotels and restaurants from 22:00 to 24:00 and in many of them music will go silent too. The representatives of tourism business held first such action on June 11. If they do not reach an agreement with the Government, on July 5-6, when Lithuania will be celebrating its millennium and there will be many guests visiting Vilnius, public protest of hotels and restaurants is to be held, informs LETA/ELTA. Over 220 companies from Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Panevezys, Palanga and Druskininkai as well as other town plan to participate in the protest, including major Vilnius hotels where foreign guests attending OSCE PA session will stay. According to Evalda Siskauskiene, president of the Lithuanian Hotels and Restaurants Association (LVRUnknown

6/29/2009 BelgiumProtesting farmers blockaded Belgian distribution centres of retailers Colruyt (COLR.BR - news), Delhaize and Carrefour to demand higher milk prices, the companies said on Monday. Farmers blocked two of Belgian discount supermarket chain Colruyt's distribution centres on Sunday night, saying on Monday the blockade could last 24 hours or even several days. Colruyt said in a statement the blockade could cost the company millions of euros. A spokeswoman for Belgian retailer Delhaize said farmers had also blocked one of its distribution centres, while the entrance to a Belgian distribution centre for France's Carrefour was also blocked by tractors, a spokesman said.Unknown

6/27/2009 AzerbiajanTehran Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran Sahar TV in Azeri at 1030 GMT on 27 June broadcast a report that several dozens of members of the union of intelligentsia and national values, the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan and Fazilat [Wisdom] Party, picketed the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry on 27 June in protest at Israeli President Shimon Peres's scheduled visit to Baku.Unknown

6/26/2009 BulgariaJune 26 (Bloomberg) -- Thousands of Bulgarians began marching in central Sofia eight days before national elections as public anger swells over the government’s handling of the recession in the European Union’s poorest country. The demonstrators will protest ―20 years of lies, theft and treasons,‖ with calls to ―change Bulgaria,‖ said Konstantin Trenchev, the president of the Podkrepa trade union, in an interview on state radio program Horizont today. The march will end in a downtown rally at 1 p.m. local time. ―We cannot give a positive assessment of any government that ruled since the fall of communism in 1989,‖ Trenchev said. ―The majority of Bulgarians live in poverty and bad health care, while those in power are buying yachts and Bentleys.‖Left

6/26/2009 RomaniaEmployees of CFR Marfa, the cargo division within the Romanian National Railroad Company, threatened street actions ―come Friday‖ because they did not receive their salaries in May, but management got paid nonetheless. The president of the "Ramuri-Vagoane" Federation, Dumitru Dobre, told MEDIAFAX Friday that CFR Marfa employees are displeased that they have not received the money promised for the work done in May, while management received salary. The employees, thus, threatened they will take to the streets Friday. "CFR employees received on June 12 half of the advance for May, which they were supposed to collect on May 30, while the other half of the advance will be paid on June 19. The rest of the salary for May, which is due Monday (June 15), will be transferred by the end of the month, or in the first week of July," CFR Marfa general manager Calin Gratian told MEDIAFAX on June 15. He explained the delays are due to the fact that the company needs to pay, this month, an installment for a EUR120 million syLeft

6/26/2009 RussiaMOSCOW, June 26 (RIA Novosti) - At least 16 supporters of jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky were detained in downtown Moscow on Friday after they gathered to celebrate the businessman's birthday and protest his imprisonment, police said. The activists were arrested not far from Red Square, a police spokesman said. He said they had failed to obtain prior permission for the demonstration. "Some 20 or more people marched ignoring police's demands to disperse. Then police detained the [majority of] activists," the spokesman said, adding they would be released once their identities had been established. Khodorkovsky, who is serving an eight-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion believed by critics to have been orchestrated by the Kremlin, turns 46 today. Khodorkovsky's supporters have been fined for "public order offenses" during similar events in previous years. In the Siberian city of Chita, where the businessman is imprisoned, supporters unfolded a banner with congratulations and set off fireworks oLeft

6/26/2009 SloveniaEight masked individuals attacked participators of a gay and lesbian literature night and assaulted journalist and gay activist Mitja BlaÏiç. The masked assailants, dressed in all black, shouted anti-gay slogans during the attack, which took place on Thursday night in a Ljubljana café called Open, in which the literary night was being held in honor of the traditional gay pride parade week. They also tried to burn the café by throwing a torch into the room. BlaÏiç was treated in the Ljubljana Clinical Center for cuts on his head and burns on his neck from the torch, which the assailants beat him with.Right

6/26/2009 SerbiaLeposaviç and Zubin Potok residents in north Kosovo are continuing a blockade of roads in protest of the new customs control at administrative crossings. The road will be blocked until EULEX changes its decision for implementing customs on the administrative line with central Serbia, protesters say. This action by the Serbs in north Kosovo does not have the backing of officiall Belgrade. Residents of Leposaviç and Zubin Potok that have been organizing the protests since Monday have been joined by people from Kosovska Mitrovica and Zveãane as well. Citizens, businesspeople and transporters have threatened that they will continue protesting until the customs are abolished. Unknown

6/26/2009 Sweden*Sweden’s SVT television said June 26 that about 150 demonstrators in Stockholm have tried to storm the Iranian Embassy there, The Associated Press reported. Police are on the scene.Unknown

6/25/2009 SerbiaOver 100 Serbs have blocked a section of the Kosovska Mitrovica-Ra‰ka road, impeding EULEX vehicles, in protest at the introduction of customs measures. Zveãan Municipal President Dragi‰a Miloviç said the Serbs did not oppose paying taxes to the Serbian state, but did not want to see their money go to the Kosovo institutions.Ethnic

6/24/2009 SerbiaStrikers continue to block international trains from passing through Serbia on the Lapovo railway line, demanding unpaid wages.Around 100 workers on Tuesday blocked the transportation of goods and people along the country's main railway line in a protest over unpaid salaries. The protests are taking place in Lapovo, some 100 kilometers south of the capital, Belgrade. Employees from the Lapovo and Zastava-Electro companies refuse to unblock the railway from Belgrade to Nis, along Corridor 10, which connects trains to Sofia and onwards to Turkey. The workers claim they have not been paid for eight months, and are demanding that the unpaid wages go toward their pensions. The workers are also demanding that the two factories restart their production activities again after undergoing recent privatization. Workers' representatives will arrive in Belgrade today for meetings with Labor Ministry officials, but until there is a resolution, the railway will remain blocked, strikers told local media. Serbian Railways areLeft

6/23/2009 GeorgiaThe members of the youth opposition movement Protect Georgia have gone on hunger strike. They are demanding hospitalization of the young protestors who were arrested during the June 15 incident, when the police dispersed the opposition rally, arrested protestors and journalists as well. Most of the detainees were released on the other day, but some were charged with administrative charges. The protestors assert the detainees have serious health problems and they need to be under permanent medical treatment. The protestors address the EU office in Georgia to assist them in providing medical treatment to their companions.Left

6/23/2009 HungaryThe trade union of the Hungarian armed forces organised a demonstration to protest against the government's austerity measures in front of Parliament on Monday. At the demonstration, union leader Geza Meszaros told the some 600 participants that the increased burden resulting from the austerity measures should be distributed evenly. He argued that the income of low-ranking members of the armed forces could be reduced by as much as 30 percent. In a statement sent to MTI, the Defence Ministry said that it was meeting its obligations outlined in an earlier agreement with the trade union. The document also expressed the ministry's readiness to continue talks.Left

6/23/2009 KosovoThe Kosovo Police Service on Monday intervened to prevent violence between Serbs and Albanians in the divided city of Mitrovica, after Serbs protested the controversial construction of a road in the Brdjani settlement. Tensions rose after ethnic Albanians began the construction of a road leading to the houses they are rebuilding in the Brdjani neigbhorhood, prompting ethnic Serbs to attempt to halt the construction. The police prevented contact between the two groups, local media reported. Last month, Mitrovica Serbs ended two weeks of protests following an agreement with the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, to begin the reconstruction of their houses in the Brdjani settlement. Prior to the agreement with UNMIK, only Albanians were building houses in the settlement. Serbs, who also have devastated houses in the settlement, had protested the Albanian construction on the grounds of discrimination.Ethnic

6/22/2009 SerbiaLeposaviç municipality residents in northern Kosovo blocked the road leading from Kosovska Mitrovica to Ra‰ka. The blockade lasted one hour this Monday, preventing the EULEX vehicles from passing through, as a sign of protest due to the introduction of customs duties at the administrative border crossings of Jarinje and Brnjak in the north of the province. Member of Leposaviç Municipal Council Mile Vukojeviç said that this is a continuation of the protest which began 15 days ago.Left

6/22/2009 UKMore than 600 contractors at Lindsey were fired last week and told they could reapply for their jobs. The workers burned their dismissal letters outside the plant today, according to Steve Pryle, a spokesman for the GMB union. The union will hold a demonstration at Lindsey from 6:30 a.m. local time tomorrow.left

6/22/2009 SerbiaMore than 100 former workers of a factory in southern Serbia broke down the doors of the and entered the premises. The former 7 Jul workers in Kur‰umlija say they will not leave until their demands are met. They are calling for their pensions to include the last six years and they want remaining wages from this period paid as well. Striking committee head Borivoje Uro‰eviç said that there are no machines to be found inside the plant that once employed some 300 people. ―After five years, we entered the factory for the first time. It is destroyed, all the machines and product reserves were sold, nothing is left. The workers are angered by the state they found it in,‖ Uro‰eviç said. The factory was bought by Bogdan Aleksiç of Kur‰umlija for RSD 32mn in 2004, after which he fired the workers and resold the factory. After months of protests by former workers, the Privatization Agency nullified the agreement for the privatization of the factory.left

6/22/2009 Luxembourg*LUXEMBOURG, June 22 (Reuters) - Hundreds of tractors driven by farmers angry about low food and milk prices snarled up roads around central Luxembourg on Monday, as European Union ministers met to discuss reforming farm policy. Just days after a similar demonstration in Brussels during a summit of EU leaders, the sheer numbers of tractors from at least five countries caused motorway tailbacks of up to 40 km (25 miles) towards and over the Belgian border. Brandishing placards with phrases like "No food without farmers" and "Farmers in torment", the farmers and tractors blocked much of Luxembourg's EU quarter, parts of the main city area and brought traffic on city approach roads to a standstill.left

6/20/2009 FranceThousands of people from across Europe demonstrated in Paris on June 20 in solidarity with Iranians protesting the results of the June 12 Iranian presidential election, in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a second term, Al Jazeera reported. The rally, held in Villepinte, was organized by the National Council of Iranian Resistance, a group of exiled Iranian opposition parties.left

6/18/2009 Europe"In Paris, Reporters without Borders, the media advocacy group, also held a rally across from the Iranian Embassy to protest a crackdown on Iranian and foreign media by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government. Iranians in Paris, London, Stockholm and The Hague were out on the streets to show their support of opponents of Ahmadinejad and the powerful Islamic clerical elite. The biggest demonstrations were in Stockholm, where up to 800 mainly expatriate Iranians gathered in the city's main square, and at The Hague, where about 300 people rallied outside the Dutch parliament. Hundreds of protesters wearing green or holding green placards demonstrated outside the Iranian Embassy in London. Some held candles like the silent protesters in Tehran, while others shouted slogans. Police said there were no reports of arrests or violence. In The Hague, about 300 protesters sang and chanted outside the Dutch parliament to show support for protesters killed during demonstrations in Iran. Many of the protesterleft

6/18/2009 BulgariaProtesters clashed with police as demonstrators against government plans to cut public spending turned violent on Thursday. Around 5,000 war veterans and war invalids gathered in front of the Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim)-Croat federation government building in Sarajevo before noon to voice their discontent over interventionist budget cuts that will reduce salaries, social benefits, and pensions. Demonstrators briefly clashed with special police forces who prevented them from entering the government building. One war veteran and one policeman were slightly injured in the brawl.left

6/18/2009 Latvia"About 5,000 Latvians staged a peaceful rally in the capital Riga to protest budget cuts the parliament approved two days ago that will hurt pensioners, health-care workers and teachers. Speakers from labor unions, teachers’ groups, police and municipalities handed out a list of demands calling on President Valdis Zatlers to refuse to sign into law the 500 million lati ($998 million) in budget cuts, needed to help unlock about 1.7 billion euros ($2.4 billion) from Latvia’s international loan. The Baltic nation is struggling through the European Union’s deepest recession after a credit-fueled boom turned to bust, international credit markets froze and its second-biggest bank collapsed. Latvia turned to a group led by the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund for a 7.5 billion euro bailout in December, which triggered more violent protests in January and the collapse of the government in March."left

6/17/2009 Germany "Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Students are striking across Germany for a free public educationIn cities across Germany, university and high school students are walking out of their classes to protest changes to the education system.More than 10,000 students held demonstrations in some 70 German cities on Wednesday, calling for improved school conditions and funding. Protests began on Monday and are slated to continue all week, with students protesting the introduction of tuition fees and the bachelor and master system into German universities, the shortening of college prep school programs, and what they describe as the increasing commercialization of their education."left

6/16/2009 Bulgaria"Thousands of protesters gathered in front of government headquarters in the Bulgarian capital June 16 over living conditions in their country, BalkanInsight.com reported, citing a report from Novinite. The protest was organized by the KNSB trade union and involved representatives from more than 30 sectors, including education, agriculture, mining and the health sector. Protesters demanded that the law banning rallies and protests on government property be abolished and called for increases in state worker salaries and health and education funding and better unemployment compensation."Unknown

6/16/2009 UK"Hundreds of workers gathered outside a Total oil refinery in eastern England on Tuesday as attempts to resolve an industrial dispute over planned redundancies continued to stall, the company said. About 350 people protested at the French company's Lindsey refinery in Lincolnshire after the 1,200-strong contractor workforce decided to continue its unofficial walk-out. The dispute began last week when Total wrote to 65 workers to tell them the construction project they were working on was nearing completion, putting their jobs in doubt."Left

6/15/2009 Georgia"Masked police beat dozens of opposition protesters in the Georgian capital on Monday, a Reuters photographer said, in the latest flare-up during a weeks-long street campaign against the president. Dozens of black-clad men armed with truncheons emerged from the main police station in Tbilisi to confront a protest of about 50 people demanding the release of several opposition activists detained last week."Left

6/15/2009 Germany"German university and high school students will participate in a nationwide strike protesting the country’s education system on June 15, German daily The Local reported. Students in more than 70 cities will skip class to demonstrate their discontent with high tuition and other recent changes to universities and high schools. Approximately 150,000 students are also expected to participate in demonstrations scheduled on June 17."left

6/15/2009 Georgia"Police arrested 39 Georgian opposition protesters during a June 15 rally near the Interior Ministry in Tbilisi, RIA Novosti reported, citing Georgian Deputy Interior Minister Eka Zguladze. Zguladze said those arrested had resisted police who were trying to arrest three people suspected in a recent attack on the speaker of parliament, and that a ―physical clash‖ resulted. Most of the detainees face fines, but some face up to 30 days in detention."left

6/11/2009 UK"June 11 (Bloomberg) -- A strike by workers on the London Underground railway entered a second day, disrupting trains that carry as many as 3 million people a day and causing traffic congestion across the capital. Members of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers including drivers began a 48-hour strike on June 9 over pay and job security. The strike on the railway known as the Tube is due to end at 6:58 p.m. tonight."left

6/8/2009 Siberia*"MOSCOW, June 8 (Reuters) - Workers at a paper mill in Siberia owned by businessman Oleg Deripaska protested over unpaid wages on Monday, media reported, less than a week after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rebuked him in a similar dispute. Reports said 63 people had started hunger strikes and two dozen others were demonstrating against the management of the Soviet-era paper mill on the banks of Lake Baikal, the world's largest freshwater lake. The demonstrators were considering blocking a highway if their demands were not met -- a tactic used by the protesters last week before Putin intervened."left

6/3/2009 Ukraine"About 930 coal miners from the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine continued their protest in front of the country's government building on Wednesday. Coal miners from three coal mining enterprises in the Donetsk Region started their protest on Tuesday, demanding that Ukraine's state monopoly, the Ukrainian Coal association, meet its obligations for the purchase of coal. The miners also demanded a personal meeting with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. However, their demand has not been met so far.The Ukrainian Coal association, which operates the country's wholesale coal market, is refusing to buy coal for power plants from private mines despite previously concluded contracts, depriving miners of their livelihoods."left

6/2/2009 France"On the same day more than 3,500 farmers staged a protest in Laval outside the premises of Lactalis, one of the largest processors in France. A spokesperson said: "Companies have moved very little in the current negotiations. Anything can happen from now on. This is the round of last resort."left

6/2/2009 Russia"Hundreds of workers blocked a motorway in northern Russia on Tuesday when anger at job cuts and unpaid wages boiled over. Here are details on some major recent protests over the effects of the financial crisis: RUSSIA - About 600 people from Pikalyovo, a town of 23,000 people in northern Russia, blocked the motorway between St Petersburg and Vologda, a witness told Reuters by telephone. Residents are demanding Russia's leaders intervene after local factories cut wages and sacked workers as the financial crisis hammers prices for cement and alumina, the town's main products."left

5/29/2009 Greece"Muslim migrants and migrant advocacy groups have begun protests in Athens on May 29. The demonstrations, which could last all weekend, will become truly significant if they swell into larger, more violent protests between non-Muslim right- and left-wing groups."Left

5/29/2009 Germany"Frankfurt - Farmers demanding higher produce prices demonstrated Friday with 200 tractors and a live pig as a mascot outside Germany's main stock exchange in Frankfurt. The rally by 2,500 farmers from six German states heard national farmers' union president Gerd Sonnleitner call for a government stimulus package for farming, similar to state guarantees for banks and industry and subsidies for home repairs and car purchases."Left

5/29/2009 Siberia"Thirty-five miners in southern Siberia went on strike on Thursday to demand the payment of some $657,000 in wage arrears, a local trade union head said. The owners of the Yenisseiskaya mine in the Russian republic of Khakassia are planning to suspend operations at the mine and dismiss some 190 workers. "The strikers are demanding the payment of wages for April and May... Total arrears for wages and benefits stand at some 20.5 million rubles," Alexander Atyukov said. "Left

5/28/2009 GeorgiaAbout 300 supporters of radical opposition have assembled in the sports palace in Tbilisi. Opposition leaders David Gamkredlidze, Eka Beseliya, bejan Gunava, David Berdzenishvili and David Usupashvili are also here. Unknown

5/27/2009 GeorgiaTBILISI, Georgia (AFP)--Thousands of anti-government protesters overnight temporarily blocked Tbilisi rail station paralyzing traffic at the strategic railway artery between the energy-rich Caspian region and the West. Unknown

5/26/2009 GeorgiaProtestors also occupied streets around the industrial city's main railway station, Porta Nuova, trading insults with angry motorists.Unknown

5/26/2009 GeorgiaThousands of angry protesters converged on the central train station in the Georgian capital Tuesday, trying to block the trains as the opposition raised the stakes in its push to get President Mikhail Saakashvili to resign.Unknown

5/21/2009 UK―Workers at Europe's largest liquefied natural gas terminal voted to end an official strike over the use of foreign labour on Thursday, union officials said. The dispute at Britain's South Hook terminal in Wales, had prompted thousands of contract workers from other industrial sites, including a refinery and power stations, to walk out in sympathy with the unofficial action. The strikes spread after 200 contract staff at South Hook gas terminal in Milford Haven, Wales, walked off the job and accused Dutch firm, Hertel, of breaking a long-standing labour agreement by hiring Polish workers instead of local workers.‖Left

5/19/2009 SerbiaProtestors held up banners reading `Biden go home` and distributed leaflets with his anti-Serbia quotes.Unknown

5/18/2009 ItalySlobodan Samardzic, vice president of the Democratic Party of Serbia believes that Biden is visiting Belgrade to request Serbia to access NATO, which he believes would be the pinnacle of humiliation.Left

5/16/2009 Czech Republic"More than 20,000 unionists from the Czech Republic and other EU member states demonstrated for worker rights in Prague on May 16"Left

5/15/2009 Russia Police in riot gear charged protestors after several rubbish binsLeft

5/14/2009 France were overturned and set alight. Four people were taken into custody, news reports said.Left

5/14/2009 Germany5/8/09 Hungary "The railway trade union VDSZSZ will join the strike called by the Liga TU on May 8 after failure of talks on Wednesday to reach an agreement with the state-owned railway company MAV on the union's demands. VDSZSZ has been demanding for over a year that MAV employees receive 250,000 forints (EUR 880) each from the revenues generated from the sale of MAV's freight unit MAV Cargo and a retroactive 10 percent outsourcing compensation. The union has also been demanding a 7 percent wage increase for this year. MAV representatives told the meeting that the union's demands could not be fulfilled for lack of resources." Left Railway union strike in protest of low wagesLeft

5/8/2009 Hungary"The railway trade union VDSZSZ will join the strike called by the Liga TU on May 8 after failure of talks on Wednesday to reach an agreement with the state-owned railway company MAV on the union's demands. VDSZSZ has been demanding for over a year that MAV employees receive 250,000 forints (EUR 880) each from the revenues generated from the sale of MAV's freight unit MAV Cargo and a retroactive 10 percent outsourcing compensation. The union has also been demanding a 7 percent wage increase for this year. MAV representatives told the meeting that the union's demands could not be fulfilled for lack of resources."Left

5/7/2009 Bulgaria"1 200 workers of the ailing Bulgarian steel-maker Kremikovtzi have been made redundant or made to retire in the recent months. This figure was announced by the factory trade union leader Vasil Yanachkov during Thursday's protest of the steel workers in downtown Sofia over their unpaid salaries and the grave danger for the fate for of the troubled plant.Yanachkov and his colleague from the other major syndicate, Lyudmil Pavlov have announced that Friday's protest would be taking place inside the factory, and not in downtown Sofia. The syndicate leaders also made public Thursday a letter from the Bulgarian state-owned natural gas monopoly Bulgargaz, in which the company threatens to terminate all gas supplies for the factory over its unpaid debts on May 12. Currently, Bulgargaz is supplying Kremikovtzi with gas only for the basic technological maintenance of the plant, and for the operation of its furnace coke facilities."Left

5/7/2009 Britain"WORKERS at Total Lindsey Oil Refinery staged protests in a show of support for colleagues in London. Around 100 workers at the North Killingholme site formed picket lines yesterday morning, while 250 headed south to take part in protests at the Olympic site where protesters called for British jobs for British workers.Staff at the London site are currently employed through agencies but GMB and Unite union members have called for them to instead be employed directly.The 800-strong demonstration also pressed the case for jobs including electricians and steel erectors to be offered to workers in the local community."Left

5/6/2009 Britain"Workers have protested at the Olympic stadium site demanding more British employees should be given jobs in its construction. The GMB and Unite union members a callied for workers to be employed directly not through job agencies. Up to 400 protesters demonstrated at the site in Stratford, east London. Workers from sites across Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire are due to attend. Olympics bosses said up to 70% of workers are British or Irish."Left

5/6/2009 France"Several hundred workers from a Continental tire factory in France have set tires on fire at another factory of the German auto parts maker near the Luxembourg border to protest looming job cuts. About 500-600 workers from the Clairoix factory north of Paris traveled Wednesday to the factory at Sarreguemines to protest the plan to close the plant at Clairoix, which employs more than 1,120 people."Left

5/6/2009 Greece"About 1,000 Greek farmers from the island of Crete are demonstrating in central Athens to protest low prices and demand state aid. The protest is causing traffic jams, but has been peaceful."Unknown

5/5/2009 Croatia"Thousands of Croatian doctors and teachers will go on strike next week to protest a wage freeze the government enforced to combat recession this year."Unknown

5/5/2009 Britain"Rail workers have staged a protest in Westminster calling for an end to cuts in jobs and services. It also aimed to press the Government to freeze shareholder dividends, with all profits of rail firms instead invested to protect services and jobs. The workers said that an urgent programme of investment could provide a "green stimulus" to the economy."Unknown

5/5/2009 France"French prison guards, who are not allowed to strike, launched a ―progressive blockade‖ on 120 out of France’s 194 jails to protest work conditions and press for more staff. ―More that 4,000 employees gathered in front of prison entrances,‖ said Jean-François Forget, secretary-general of the French trade union Ufap-Unsa. The justice minister, Rachida Dati, met union leaders on Tuesday morning as protests continued. Earlier on Tuesday, the budget minister, Eric Woerth, had said that between 2,000 and 3,000 jobs were created for prison staff in 2009 and that was enough."Left

5/1/2009 Russia"In Russia, tens of thousands of demonstrators for and against the government marched against a backdrop of rising unemployment and economic gloom."Left

5/1/2009 Greece"In Athens, thousands of protesters marched as part of annual May Day rallies as strikes disrupted public transportation, ferry services and flights."Left

5/1/2009 France"France’s eight labor unions joined for the first time for May Day demonstrations across the country to protest government measures on the economic crisis as insufficient and corporate leaders as out of touch."Left

4/29/2009 Serbia"Thousands of Serbian workers demonstrated on Wednesday against an austerity plan designed to meet International Monetary Fund conditions for a euro3 billion ($4 billion) bailout loan. The workers said government measures against the effects of global economic crisis are "slow, wrong and inefficient." Union leader Ljubisav Orbovic said the government has "no vision or strategy."Left

4/29/2009 Ireland"The Taoiseach Brian Cowen will be faced with a deluge of nappies next month from a group of parents protesting against plans to means test or tax children’s allowance from the beginning of next year. The group, called Protest Against Child Unfriendly Budget (PACUB), consists of over 500 parents who feel families were disproportionately targeted by the recent budget and face a similarly unfair budget at the end of the year.As well as sending nappies to the Taoiseach on May 18th, the group is urging parents to sign an online petition on the social networking site Facebook and to download and send a protest letter from their website to the relevant Ministers and their local TDs."Unknown

4/29/2009 Britain"Dairy farmers are to gather outside the Scottish Parliament to protest against the prices they are paid for milk. The farmers will lobby for a greater share of profit margins to help them afford production costs. The National Farmers Union in Scotland said the amount paid to producers had fallen by 20%, or almost 4p per litre, since the start of 2009. The protests coincide with a day of action for dairy farmers in more than 10 countries across Europe."Left

4/28/2009 France"Thousands of French hospital workers are holding a protest march in Paris against a proposed law they fear will give too much power to hospital administrators.The hospital workers also fear a closing of certain medical services as a result of the law that will be discussed in the Senate on May 11.The demonstrators say that patients in France should have equal access to medical care.Several well-known French doctors joined Tuesday's march. Similar demonstrations are planned in other French cities.The proposed law would give the heads of hospitals the authority to close services that are not profitable. The protesters believe that could lead to layoffs and closing of needed services.Left

4/27/2009 Scotland"DEFIANT parents are to stage a fresh round of protests over plans to close 11 primary schools and nine nurseries."Unknown

4/27/2009 Serbia"A Serbian union official who chopped off his finger and ate it in a protest over wages that in some cases have not been paid in years...State-owned Raska Holding was a major textile producer in the late 1980s with a workforce of 4,000. It suffered during the collapse of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and a loss of markets and mismanagement during a decade of wars and sanctions led to massive job cuts, leaving the company with just 100 workers.Some employees have not been paid for years, only collecting social benefits, like free medical care."Left

4/27/2009 Ireland"Thousands of commuters across Dublin were left stranded this morning after the protest by drivers at Harristown and Clontarf depots.The dispute, which is over the introduction of service changes, means that 25 routes are not operating while a further 15 are offering a limited service.Siptu and the National Bus and Rail Union (NBRU), which represent workers a Dublin Bus, said the action was not official and is not associated with the trade unions.The protest started when Dublin Bus suspended a driver for refusing to work the new schedule on the 128 Baldoyle-to-Rathmines service. The 450 staff at the Harristown depot stopped work in sympathy with the driver before the dispute escalated to the Clontarf depot.A spokeswoman for the company said that although the changes were originally implemented successfully in Clontarf drivers from Harristown attended at the garage resulting in the "cessation of all services". The changed schedule was one of a number introduced by Dublin Bus yesterday as part of its plans to Unknown

4/25/2009 Britain"Campaigners fighting plans to move a county's only livestock market to a new site have held a demonstration. A replacement for the cattle market at Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, will be built 10 miles (16km) away near Raglan. Members of the Keep Abergavenny Livestock Market campaign group were joined by farmers and residents for a march and rally in the town. Monmouthshire council said the cattle market was not "fit for purpose" and would need millions spent on it."Unknown

4/23/2009 Scotland"HUNDREDS of carers marched through the streets of the Capital yesterday in protest at two key issues. Members of various organisations wanted to show their anger at council plans to retender homecare for 700 people, while others expressed dissatisfaction at what they see as a lack of action on carer poverty.Banners declared that family unpaid carers save the tax-payer an estimated £7.6 billion a year, while others shouted for the city to halt its retendering process."Unknown

4/23/2009 Scotland"More than 100 demonstrators joined in protest outside Glasgow's City Chambers over a recommendation to close primary schools and nurseries. The protest comes as Glasgow City Council convenes a special meeting to vote on the issue. The council is expected to approve the measure despite objections from parents and locals across the city. Some of those involved in the campaign to keep the schools open held an overnight vigil outside the chambers."Unknown

4/23/2009 Latvia"Students in the Baltic state of Latvia joined a long list of unhappy groups in the troubled EU member Thursday when they staged a series of protests against big cuts in funding for education. Following earlier demonstrations by farmers, teachers, nurses and police in recent weeks, a few dozen students gathered outside the entrances to university campuses across the Latvian capital, Riga, to set up imaginative pickets."Unknown

4/22/2009 France"French automotive workers hurled floor lamps at windows and stomped on furniture as despair over the economic downturn took a violent turn...They smashed windows at the factory in Clairoix and at a regional administrative office in nearby Compiegne, pulling up lamps and crushing desks and cabinets. While strikes and protests are common among French workers, this kind of outburst is rare.Unknown

4/22/2009 France "Molex Inc. said French workers asked for 100 million euros ($130 million) to set free two managers held hostage to protest against job cuts...Molex employees detained Marcus Kerriou, the co-manager of Molex's French unit, and Coline Colboc, head of human resources, for 24 hours to protest the company shifting production to other sites from the plant in Villemur-sur-Garde, central France. The company denies such a move.Left

4/21/2009 Croatia"Students at Zagreb's Faculty of Philosophy are vowing to keep on blocking classes and exams there until authorities abandon the introduction of tuition fees. Reporters at the scene say about 500 students began their protest on Monday, breaking into classrooms and disrupting exams, chanting slogans like "Education must be free!" The protest continued Tuesday, although some professors managed to hold classes, locked in their offices. Education is still largely cost-free in Croatia. But students say new tuition fees next year for master's and doctor's degrees will make faculties inaccessible to the poor.Professors are meeting to decide how to handle the situation.Unknown

4/20/2009 Scotland"Pupils at a Glasgow primary school had to be sent home after four parents staged a rooftop demonstration over council proposals to shut it down...Four people took to the roof of Our Lady of the Assumption Primary school during the early hours of Monday morning."Unknown

4/16/2009 France"About 125 employees of FM Logistic in northeastern France barged into a meeting and took five managers hostage. As evening approached, they let go two female executives with small children and kept the other three. Workers said they are angry after a year of fruitless restructuring talks."Left

4/16/2009 France"French fishermen allowed sea traffic to resume at two English Channel ports but continued to block a third Thursday to push for higher European fishing quotas, regional officials said. Cross-channel traffic to and from Calais and Dunkirk resumed overnight so that fishermen could meet and decide how to respond to a government offer of euro4 million ($5.27 million) in aid. Trawlers were still blocking the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer, according to the Nord-Pas de Calais regional port authority. The fishermen blocked the three key ports Tuesday and Wednesday, stranding passengers and trucks on both sides of the Channel. They are protesting EU fishing quotas for sole and cod, which they say are too low for them to make a living."Unknown

4/16/2009 France"Police deployed Thursday at a plant in the French Alps run by U.S. manufacturer Caterpillar where workers camped out overnight to protest layoffs. Workers at Caterpillar's two French plants in and near Grenoble are seeking a better deal in a plan to cut hundreds of jobs at the sites — part of thousands of layoffs at the company's worldwide operations prompted by the economic downturn."Unknown

4/16/2009 Spain"Banner-waving farmers surrounded dairies in Germany and protested in Spain on Thursday against a dramatic fall in European Union milk prices that they say will force farms to close."Unknown

4/16/2009 Germany"Banner-waving farmers surrounded dairies in Germany and protested in Spain on Thursday against a dramatic fall in European Union milk prices that they say will force farms to close."Unknown

4/14/2009 Ireland"Irish dairy farmers are holding a series of protests against cuts in the price of milk supplied to food producer Glanbia"Unknown

4/9/2009 Russia"Activists from Russia’s opposition movement the Left Front have held a protest against the government in front of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s reception room, Gazeta.ru website reports Thursday."Left

4/8/2009 Britain"Axed workers from a textile plant near Carlisle are mounting a 24-hour protest to press for enhanced redundancy terms."Unknown

4/8/2008 Bulgaria "Nearly 1,000 workers at Bulgaria's largest steel-maker, Kremikovtzi, are rallying in the capital to protest delayed paychecks and demand that the government find a new owner for the factory.Workers blocked major intersections in Sofia on Wednesday, causing huge traffic jams."Unknown

4/8/2008 Italy"Ukrainian immigrants in Italy have asked Ukraine's leadership to prevent the introduction of additional taxes on Ukrainian migrant entrepreneurs...The immigrants expressed their dissatisfaction in connection with debates by Ukrainian politicians on plans to introduce additional taxation. In particular, this concerns a Cabinet of Ministers resolution of March 5, 2009 on the taxation of Ukrainian migrant private entrepreneurs."Unknown

4/2/2009 Greece"Hundreds of thousands of Greeks joined a nationwide 24-hour strike on Thursday to protest against the government's response to the economic crisis, disrupting transport and shutting down services. Flights to and from Greece were suspended for several hours, banks and schools shut down."Unknown

4/2/2009 Ireland"Sacked workers from the car components firm Visteon are continuing to occupy a factory in Belfast. Protesting staff at the firm also staged a rooftop protest at a plant in Enfield, London while others held a sit-in in Basildon in Essex. They claim the company's former owner, Ford, had promised redundancy contracts which they now want to see honoured."Left

4/2/2009 Latvia"Thousands of teachers are rallying in Riga to protest the government's plans to slash the salaries of public sector workers by up to 20 percent."Unknown

4/1/2009 Britain (G20)"Anti-capitalist, anarchists, and environmental activists marched in London where representatives of 20 of the world's largest economies were set to meet Thursday for the g-20's annual meeting. The protests occurred in several areas of London, but the most volatile was in the city's financial district, where protesters shattered the windows of the Royal Bank of Scotland as well as spray painted anarchist symbols and the word "thieves". According to the London Times, some protesters took it a step further:"Police made at least 19 arrests during a day of protests in the City of London, including 11 demonstrators who tried to drive an armoured personnel carrier marked "Riot Police" into the heart of the protests.""Left

3/31/2009 France"Militant workers are holding four managers hostage at a factory in France in the country's fourth credit-crunch 'boss-napping' in a month. Angry employees at the Caterpillar truck manufacturers locked the men in an office this morning in protest at mass job cuts. More than 700 of the 2,500 workers at the site in Grenoble, south east France, are facing the axe due to plunging demand for the famous yellow vehicles."Left

3/29/2009 Britain (G20)"Thousands of people marched through London on Saturday to demand punishment for bankers, power to the poor and protection of the environment at a protest meant as a wake-up call to world leaders gathering here this week for an economic summit. It was one of the largest demonstrations this city has seen since massive rallies six years ago against the invasion of Iraq. The turnout, estimated at 35,000, reflected the depth of popular anger over Britain's economic crash and the perceived greed of bankers and other high-fliers whom many people blame for it."Left

3/26/2009 France"Striking workers at France's GDF Suez (GSZ.PA) were on Thursday blocking the two French liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals of Fos-Tonkin in the south and Montoir in the west, the company said. The strike, which started last night, was blocking two small-size ships from unloading at Fos-Tonkin while a ship was being unloaded at Montoir, the company said. Strikers were protesting against the firm paying chief executive Gerard Mestrallet and vice-president Jean-Francois Cirelli 10.5 million euros in stock options."Left

3/26/2009 Poland"Hundreds of miners, shipyard workers and medical rescuers marched in the Polish capital Thursday against what they charged were the government's "anti-labour politics."Metalworkers and trade unionists were also in the crowd that demonstrated at the economy and health ministries. Under banners reading, "We won't pay for your crisis," the protesters charged the government was not doing enough to fight the economic crisis. They accused Warsaw of making things worse by cutting investments, blocking raises and reforming the health sector."Unknown

3/26/2009 RomaniaHundreds of Romanian railway workers have begun a protest in the capital's main train station at government plans to cut 12,000 jobs. The spontaneous protest by about 1,000 workers came as union leaders were discussing financial problems affecting the troubled railway industry.Unknown

3/25/2009 Montenegro"About 2,000 workers in Montenegro protested Wednesday over the possible closure of a factory owned by embattled Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska. The workers of aluminum maker KAP, the biggest Montenegrin exporter, defied a police ban and gathered in front of government headquarters to put pressure on officials to make sure the factory remains open. Montenegro's economy, already in crisis because of the global financial meltdown, would destabilize further if the factory closes."Unknown

3/25/2009 France"Several hundred employees of German car parts maker Continental protested in Paris on Wednesday against the closure of a French factory...The workers, from the company's Clairoix tyre-manufacturing site in northern France, proceeded through the French capital brandishing, and in some cases burning tyres, waving flags and chanting slogans including "Continental solidarity"."Left

3/25/2009 France"A leading executive has been kidnapped at a factory in France by striking workers angry over job cuts. Pharmaceuticals chief Luc Rousselet was locked in a room at the 3M factory at Pithiviers, 60 miles south of Paris. Mr Rousselet, director of the American 3M Group, had arrived yesterday to negotiate severance pay after 110 of the 235-strong workforce were sacked."Left

3/24/2009 Britain"Unemployed construction workers have staged a protest outside a Kent power station to demand fair access to jobs...The union Unite says Alstom, which has been contracted to build a new energy plant at Grain, is denying skilled workers the chance to apply for work."Left

3/23/2009 Britain"Protesters marched through Bangor, Gwynedd claiming lack of funding in the city. One of the organisers was Nigel Pickavance."Unknown

3/20/2009 Ireland"Taxi Drivers for Change is planning to disrupt Dublin city traffic for up to six hours tomorrow in its latest demonstration against the number of taxis in the capital."Unknown

3/19/2009 Britain"Unemployed construction workers are to protest outside a job centre in Kent in an ongoing row over foreign labour."Right

3/19/2009 France"A new wave of nationwide strikes by angry workers demanding that French President's Nicolas Sarkozy do more to fight the economic crisis hit France on Thursday."Unknown

3/19/2009 Ireland"Thousands of civil and public service workers have taken part in a work stoppage.They were protesting over the pension levy and the deferral of pay rises due this year. The hour-long demonstrations, organised by the Civil and Public Service Union, took place at Government offices across the country.It is estimated that around 10,000 people were involved."Left

3/19/2009 Spain"Seven people have been arrested and 80 injured in clashes in Barcelona between police and university students protesting planned education reforms. The clashes occurred during two city-centre protests Wednesday in the northeastern Spanish city after police forced students out of a university office they had occupied since November."Left

3/18/2009 Greece"Around 2,000 trade union members marched through Athens on Tuesday (March 17th) protesting unemployment and demanding protection of workers' rights and better working conditions. The PAME movement, which represents some 40 unions in the country, organised the protest."Left

3/17/2009 Iceland"A group of Icelanders pleaded with U.K. lawmakers in London on Tuesday to unfreeze the assets of the Nordic nation's banks, saying Britain had been wrong to use anti-terror laws to freeze them last year. Submitting a petition backed by about 80,000 Icelanders — about a quarter of the tiny island country's population — the delegation of Icelandic activists insisted: "We are not terrorists.""Unknown

3/16/2009 Hungary"Several thousand people held antigovernment protests in the Hungarian capital during a national holiday yesterday, and police detained 35 demonstrators."Unknown

3/12/2009 France"The head of Sony France was held hostage overnight as workers demanded better terms."Left

3/10/2009 Greece"Greece's president urged striking Culture Ministry employees Wednesday to end a protest that has closed the Acropolis to visitors for the fifth time in two weeks. The protesters are mostly contract workers demanding permanent jobs and back pay."Left

3/9/2009 France"Students and professors have held numerous protests and strikes since late January that have forced some schools to temporarily close in the past six weeks over the reforms aimed at streamlining the country's university system and cutting costs."Unkown

3/9/2009 Serbia"Local Prilužje leader Saša Andrić said that about 50 Serb families told him they would ―organize a column of tractors, trailers and cars and start down the central Serbia road, if, in the next few days, a final resolution to the energy shortages to Serb villages is not reached". "Unknown

3/5/2009 Latvia―The latest instance of using shoes as a means of political expression occurred in the Latvian capital Riga on Thursday, when demonstrators from the Baltic state's second city, Daugavpils, delivered 100 pairs of used shoes to members of parliament. 'We're here today because we don't agree with the situation in our country. Prices are becoming higher but our wages remain low so it is impossible to survive,' a demonstrator named Veronika told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.‖Unknown

3/5/2009 France (Reunion)"The demonstrators presented French authorities with a list of 62 demands that will be negotiated with the government and representatives in the coming days. High on the list of demands is an increase of $250 (euro200) a month for low-paid workers and a 20 percent cut in the price of basic necessities, many of which are imported from France."Left

3/5/2009 Ireland―Taxi drivers claim that, since the deregulation of licensing in 2000, the number of taxis in Dublin has risen from 2,000 to 25,000.They say too many taxis are currently operating and as a result it is impossible for drivers to make a living. It will be the fifth protest by the group calling itself Taxi Drivers for Change. It wants the industry to be restructured and the issuing of new licences to be suspended.‖Unknown

3/5/2009 Britain"Angry demonstrators descended on the Bank of England today to protest about how cuts in interest rates are crippling savers."Unknown

3/4/2009 Britain"Staff at Neath Port Talbot College are to walk out in protest over a £1.6m cut in the college's budget. "Left

3/2/2009 Ukraine "Hundreds of Ukrainian lorry drivers protesting against newly-imposed taxes blocked a key motorway connection Odessa with Kiev on Monday"Unknown

2/26/2009 EuropeThousands of workers are demonstrating at US auto giant GM's factories in Europe, hoping to save their jobsUnknown

2/25/2009 France (Martinique)"Vandals burnt cars and looted shops in Martinique as violence spread to a second French Caribbean island in protests over high prices, low pay and alleged neglect by Paris. About twenty people were detained after the outburst in Fort-de-France, the capital."Unknown

2/23/2009 Britain"A protest was held outside BMW's Mini plant in Oxford as hundreds of staff returned to work. The company said last Monday that 850 agency workers would be losing their jobs. About 350 have already gone."Unknown

2/21/2009 Russia"Protesting the management of the economic crisis, a few hundred Russian opposition sympathizers on Saturday held an anti-Kremlin rally in central Moscow demanding the resignation of the government."Left

2/21/2009 Ireland"Hundreds of thousands of workers filled the streets of Dublin on Saturday to protest the government response to Ireland's economic downturn. The protest was organized by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU). Workers from Waterford Crystal and SR Technic, two companies facing economic problems amid the recession, led the march."Left

2/20/2009 EuropeCrisis in agricultural markets: farmers’ protests set to widen Unknown

2/18/2009 France (Guadeloupe)"THE MONTH-LONG strike on the French West Indian island of Guadeloupe has turned violent, claiming the life of a tax official in his 50s amid widespread rioting overnight on Tuesday."Unknown

2/11/2009 Britain"Unemployed construction workers protested at two power stations on Wednesday claiming that British employees were being denied the opportunity to apply for jobs."Unknown

2/10/2009 France"Some 43,000 students, researchers and professors took to streets in Paris and other French cities Tuesday to demand an increase in scholarship funds and protest government plans to cut university jobs amid the economic downturn."Unknown

2/9/2009 Bulgaria"Bulgarian police vowed to protest until their demands for better salaries and working conditions are met."Unknown

2/9/2009 Montenegro"Aluminium workers demanded to be paid their salaries and an immediate restart of suspended production."Unknown

2/9/2009 Bosnia"Workers of Bosnia's only alumina producer Birac protested in the main square of Banja Luka, the seat of government, carrying signs reading "The Factory is Our Life" and 'Who will Feed our Children?'"Unknown

2/5/2009 China"Over 2,000 factory workers in China launched a protest after their employer, an Italian maker of luxury sofas, closed down in the wake of the global financial crisis."Unknown

2/5/2009 France"Students demonstrating against government education reforms clashed with police in Strasbourg...The protests target a range of reforms, including budget and job cuts at universities as well as plans to introduce performance appraisals for researchers and lecturers."Left

2/4/2009 Bulgaria"Bulgarian farmers blocked border crossings and roads in the north and south of the country Wednesday, demanding higher prices for agricultural products."Unknown

2/3/2009 Latvia"On a day when tractors were literally circling his office building in protest, Latvia's Agriculture Minister Martins Roze resigned amid growing anger and discontent from Latvian farmers." The farmers picketed the Agriculture Ministry and delievered cows heads in a coffin.Unknown

2/3/2009 Ukraine"Employees at agricultural machinery maker Kherson Machine-Building Plant LLC occupied the plant's administrative building on Tuesday in a bid to secure payment of wage arrears."Left

2/3/2009 Lithuania"Several dozen protesters marched to Parliament demanding that the center-right government resign."Unknown

2/2/2009 Greece"Farmers in Greece have taken to the streets in protest again – this time demanding more financial help from the government over low prices...Clashes broke out when riot police tried to prevent the farmers from driving their vehicles to the Agriculture Ministry in the capital."Left

2/1/2009 RussiaDemonstrators in Moscow call for leaders to resign over financial crisisUnknown

1/31/2009 Russia"Protesters held demonstrations throughout Russia on Saturday, offering pointed criticism of the government’s economic policies as the country continues to sink deeper into an economic morass." "The pro-Kremlin United Russia party also drew thousands to rallies in support of government anti-crisis measures."Left & Right

1/28/2009 Iceland"Police used pepper spray and arrested six protesters on Wednesday evening at a demonstration outside a NATO meeting in the capital Reykjavik."Left

1/28/2009 Madagascar"Tens of thousands of opposition supporters protested against the president in Madagascar's capital on Wednesday"Unknown

1/28/2009 Greece"Greek farmers shut border crossings and blocked roads for a tenth day on Wednesday while aviation officials disrupted international flights, piling pressure on a government struggling to face the economic crisis."Unknown

1/26/2009 Greece"Hundreds of self-styled anarchists wreaked havoc in Exarchia after clashing with police outside Parliament during an anti-government rally." Left

1/26/2009 Madagascar"Anti-government protesters in Madagascar have looted and set fire to the offices of the state broadcaster in the capital Antananarivo."Unknown

1/22/2009 Iceland"Police streamed a hardcore of a few hundred anti-government protesters in the early morning with pepper spray and then tear gas after an earlier crowd of around 2,000 gathered outside the Althingi, the country's parliament, to demand the government resign."Left

1/22/2009 Romania"Around 600 drivers representing three federations of Romanian transport companies on Thursday staged a rally demanding better work conditions."Left

1/16/2009 Latvia"10,000-strong protest in Latvia descended into a riot, with protesters trying to storm parliament before going on the rampage."Unknown

1/16/2009 Lithuania"Police used tear gas, dogs and rubber bullets on Friday to push back a crowd from the Baltic state's parliament, after people threw stones and bottles at the building during a rowdy anti-government protest."Left

1/16/2009 Turkey"Turkish police have clashed with stone-throwing union workers protesting rising unemployment and price hikes."Unknown

1/14/2009 Bulgaria"About 10 000 people who demanded the immediate resignation of the government and the adjourning of the Parliament took part in the protest."Unknown

1/13/2009 Latvia "Baltic protests erupt as EU’s worst economies shake " Left

1/13/2009 Lithuania "Baltic protests erupt as EU’s worst economies shake" Left

1/10/2009 Iceland"Protesting the economy control by the Goverment.Demanding the resignation of the goverment,and central bank governors.and also demanding that election be held a soon as possible."Unknown

12/29/2008 Iceland"Icelanders gathered outside their parliament to demand the resignation of the government they blame for leading their country into an economic abyss. Violence flared as protesters tried to storm a police station to free an arrested demonstrator. At least five people were injured."Unknown

12/29/2008 Turkey"Thousands of Turkish workers clashed with police in Ankara, at a demonstration held by the two biggest unions to protest against a possible International Monetary Fund deal."Left

12/23/2008 Iceland"Protesters in Iceland's capital Reykjavik have clashed with police during a demonstration over the handling of the financial crisis."Unknown

12/22/2008 Ukraine Unknown

12/21/2008 Russia"About 100 protesters were arrested in the Eastern port city of Vladivostok during demonstrations against hikes in second hand car import duties aimed at protecting jobs in the domestic car industry."Unknown

12/8/2008 Iceland Unknown

12/8/2008 - 12/19/08 Greece"Anger over the fatal shooting of a Greek schoolboy by a policeman"Left

11/29/2008 Hungary"In Budapest, thousands of firefighters, teachers and other public employees demonstrated outside Hungary's parliament to protest against austerity measures."Public Employees

10/10/2008 Britain"Large group of demonstrators stormed the London Exchange to protest the handeling of the financial crisis."Unknown

TYPE OF PROTEST

Four arrested at anti-occupation rally after tirade against Cyprus' President

Violent protest against the forced closure of workplace city gov (2nd day)

About 50 workers take 4 managers hostage in "bossnapping"

Dairy farmers miffed over EU innaction over milk prices

Firefighters block road over officials’ failure to adopt a budget.

Violent protest against the forced closure of workplace city gov

Czech scientists protest against lower subsidies

Planning protest rally against unlawful jailings

Peach producers protesting prices and purchase guarantees

Kosovo veterans throw firebombs in protest over benefits

320th anniversary of riots marred by riots

Farmers throw wheat on road in protest over prices

Migrant workers protest legislation banning their activity in marketplace

Protesting decision to close enviromental program to new applicants

Protesting Mikhail Khodorkovsky's jailing

Protesting G8 meeting

Farmers block road over wheat prices

Protesting election

Protesting temporary layoffs

Protesting unpaid wages

Demonstrating for gay rights

Protesting dismissal of Motsny

Producers protest low rasberry prices

Protesting customs duties at border crossings

Northern Kosovo Serbs throw stones at Serb leaders

Protest outside Russian embassy was suppressed

Dairy farmers protest low prices

Hotels protesting tarrifs

Farmers block supermarket distribution centres

Protesting Peres' visit to Baku

Protesting gov's handling of financial crisis

Protesting unpaid wages

Khodorkovsky supporters arrested at birthday bash

Conservatives attack gays

Protesting customs at border crossings

Protesters try to storm the Iranian embassy

Serbs protesting customs at border crossings

Demanding unpaid wages

Young oppositionists go on hunger strike

Hungarian army union protests against austerity measures

Ethnic tensions w/ serbs and albanians over their road building

Protesting customs duties at border crossings

Workers burn dismissal letters in protest of firing

Factory workers want wage arrears and pensions

Farmers angry about low food and milk prices

Iranians protesting the results of election

Protesting iranian elections and deaths of citizens therein

5,000 war veterans protest benefit cuts; clash with police

Approx 5,000 Latvians Protest Budget Cuts Passed by Parliament

Protesting bank bailouts, tuition fees, and edu reform

Protesting wages, health benefits, laws banning protesting

Protesting pay and job security

Protesting detainment of fellow protestors

Students protesting the country’s education system

Opposition protestors express dicontent

Protesting pay and job security

Paper mill workers protest unpaid wages

Coal miners demand gov stick to contract to buy coal

Farmers protest low milk prices

Demanding gov intervene and support cement and aluminum prices

Muslims protest alleged religious disrespect of Greek authorities

Farmers protest calling for gov support of farming industry

Miners protest over wage arrears

Support/rally for radical opposition

Protest against Georgia's Saakashvili

Many thousands protest against Georgia's Saakashvili

Protest against Georgia's Saakashvili

UK gas plant workers end strike over foreign labour

Protesting US VP Joe Biden's visit

Anti-globalization students protest G8 gathering

Protesting for better workers' rights

St. Petersburg Ford plant workers protest 4-day working week

Hospital workers protest government policy

Dairy Farmer's protest low milk prices

Railway union strike in protest of low wages

Factory workers protest the loss of jobs and wage decreases

Solidarity protest in support of London Olympic protestors

Union protest for Olympic job opportunities

Factory worker protest against job cuts

Protest against low agricultural prices

Doctor & Teacher protest against government wage freeze

Rail worker protest for an end to job cuts

Prison Guard protest for better working conditions and wages

May Day demonstration against the handling of the economic crisis

May Day demonstration agains the handling of the economic crisis

May Day demonstration against the handling of the economic crisis

Anti-IMF bailout loan protest

Protest targeting family bugets and childrens allowances.

Agricultural pricing protest

Healthcare cost saving measures protest

School Closure protest

Union protest over unpaid wages

Transportation labor strike/protest

Agricultural pricing protest

DATE COUNTRY STRIKE DETAILS

7/23/2009 Ireland * Farmers drown out PM's speech. * 500 Bank of Ireland staff stage one-day strike. * Union warns of resumption of electricians' strike. DUBLIN, July 23 (Reuters) - Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was heckled by farmers protesting against agricultural cuts on Thursday, as bank staff staged a one-day strike over wages and unions warned of renewed action by electricians. Ireland's reputation for peaceful industrial relations has been ruptured as the high-wage era of the "Celtic Tiger" economy gives way to record recession and the government is forced by ballooning deficits to impose tax hikes and spending cuts. Some 400 members of the Irish Farmers' Association booed Cowen, during his speech to mark the opening of a new road in western Ireland, over cutbacks in incentives for environmentally sensitive farming. "This is only the start. He'll hear our voice today and he'll hear our voice every other day," one farmer told Newstalk radio station. In Dublin, the UNITE trade union's 500 members at Bank of Ireland

7/22/2009 Kosovo TRPCE -- Kosovo Electricity Corporation (KEK) employees, with the help of Kosovo police, have seized control of a EPS-owned sub-station in ·trpce. Sub-station foreman Tinko Davidoviç said that 14 Elektroprivreda Serbia (EPS) staff who had been employed at the station had literally been chased from their places of work. ―KEK workers turned up, and, with the help of Kosovo police officers, having cut through the chain on the gate and doors, entered the facility from which we were expelled,― he said. ―The situation’s tense, people have gathered in front of the sub-station,― he said. ·trpce Municipal President Zvonko Mihajloviç said that this was an attempt to close the Serb institutions, and that the next step would be occupation of the remaining Serb institutions in the spheres of health care, education and local self-government. ―I’ve asked the police to remove the KEK employees who’ve entered the sub-station and for the EPS employees to return,― he said. The troubles come after Serbs in ·trpce, who have been

7/21/2009 UK Workers at a wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight have staged a sit-in protest over its imminent closure. Employees at the Vestas Windsystems factory in Newport are calling for the government to nationalise the plant to protect the more than 600 jobs which are due to be lost. The Danish company is set to lay off 625 workers when it closes the plant at the end of this month. The company claims the decision has been made due to a reduced demand for turbines in northern Europe. Around 25 employees began their protest at around 19:30 BST on Monday night and those arriving for work this morning have been turned away by police. Climate change protestors have also set up camp outside the factory this morning. The Campaign Against Climate Change has lent its support to the employees staging their sit-in protests and is also planning a demonstration outside the Department of Energy and Climate Change tomorrow.

7/20/2009 Greece "Athens. The workers in the Hellenic Railways Organization /OSE/ have planned to stage consecutive three-hour strikes on Monday, which entails changes in a number of railway routes and the routes of the railway in Athens, Greek Skai radio station informs. The strikes will be held between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m. and 5 p.m., and 10:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. Strikes were already held in this way on Friday and fresh ones are planned for July 24 as well. OSE workers protest about the government’s plans for the company’s recovery."

7/17/2009 Germany Unions called a new round of strikes for some 2,000 public child care workers on Friday near Stuttgart, as a seventh round of wage negotiations with state employers has yet to achieve a breakthrough. Strikes arranged by public workers’ union Verdi and Science Workers’ Union (GEW) have been plaguing states across the country since May, forcing parents to find alternative care for their children when their day care centres, or Kitas, shut down. Friday’s round of strikes in the state of Baden-Württemberg affected 180 child care facilities as the unions pressure employers to improve health care options and increase wages for some 220,000 educators and social workers.

7/17/2009 UK Thousands of postal workers are to stage a 24-hour walkout on Friday as part of an escalating dispute over job cuts, pay and working practices. The Communication Workers Union said more than 12,000 of its members will strike in areas including London, Edinburgh and Bristol. The strike is the latest industrial action taken by postal staff in the past few months. The Royal Mail reacting to the announcement said it expected nearly all services outside London to function as normal. Explaining the need for the strike, Dave Ward, the CWU's deputy general secretary, accused the management of preparing "illogical and arbitrary" job cuts in the name of modernizing the struggling company. "Without new machinery or improvements in deliveries and industrial relations, postal services will be drastically hit," he told the Press Association.

7/17/2009 Greece Athens - Train travel throughout Greece was disrupted on Friday after workers called rolling three-hour work stoppages, threatening to cause havoc during the busy tourist season. Employees at the Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) said all domestic travel would face regular disruptions on July 20 and 24. Only trains travelling from outside of Greece or those headed to neighbouring countries would be allowed to travel. The stoppages will also affect suburban services, which thousands of tourists rely on for travel from Athens' International Airport to the Greek capital.

7/16/2009 Poland Treasury Minister Aleksander Grad and Defense Minister Bogdan Klich decided that the Navy Shipyard and the neighboring Ship Repair Yard Nauta will be put up for sale. Express procedures related to finding an investor should begin in August. "The Cabinet earlier agreed that the shares in Nauta be transferred to the Industrial Development Agency (ARP), which holds over 90% of shares in the Navy Shipyard. It will be ARP which will prepare the sale of both companies," said Treasury Ministry spokesperson Maciej Wiewiór. Meanwhile, employees of the Navy Shipyard are preparing to protest as they have not yet received June's wages, and a majority did not receive full compensation for May. The company employs 1,300 persons.

7/16/2009 Scotland A bus strike in Aberdeen over pay is under way, with protests being held. Talks with the conciliation service Acas failed to resolve the First Bus dispute after staff voted for one day of industrial action. First is offering passengers free travel during the strike. Where possible a 30-minute service is running on routes from 0700 BST to 1900 BST. Meanwhile, members of the Unite union are demonstrating at the First Group AGM in Aberdeen. First - which wants a pay freeze - said it hoped the free travel offer would compensate passengers for any inconvenience caused by the strike. However, union officials said running a free bus service showed the money was available to pay for their wage claim. Unite national organiser for transport, Graham Stevenson, said: "The board has decided that a recession means that bus workers no long need to have pay increases, especially if this interferes with their ability to ensure that shareholders get what they think should be coming to them. "Quite simply, we ask them to think

7/16/2009 Italy In an open letter to Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, the trade union FILCEM-CGIL expressed anger at plans by Eni (Rome / Italy; www.eni.com) to idle the Porto Torres cracker again – from 1 August. FILCEM general secretary Alberto Morselli accused Eni of reneging on promises to ensure the chemical industry’s survival. He said he believes that idling could be the first step towards a permanent shutdown. A strike is planned at the Sardinian site. Media reports quote Eni’s CEO, Paolo Scaroni, as saying the cracker is operating at a considerable deficit.

7/13/2009 Greece Train travel throughout Greece is likely to be severely disrupted today due to rolling three-hour work stoppages by employees of the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE). In a statement, the company said that only trains coming from outside of Greece or those headed to neighboring countries would be allowed to travel on the railway network. The Proastiakos Suburban Railway will also operate on a severely reduced timetable.

7/13/2009 Cyprus Staff at Cyprus' state broadcaster CyBC are to stage a four-hour strike today in protest over working conditions. It is still uncertain as to whether live TV and radio broadcasts will go ahead this evening as workers plan to take action between 6-10pm. CyBC trade unions said management should "honour their signature by filling all vacated promotional posts already being handled by consultative committees". These concern "irregular forms of employment" and the conditions of employment for hourly-paid staff. Trade unions have threatened an escalation of measures if CyBC management fails to respond.

7/6/2009 Ireland National pickets by Ireland's Technical Engineering and Electrical Union are halting or delaying work Monday at 240 construction sites, including a second terminal at Dublin Airport and the capital's future sports stadium. Union leaders say electricians have been promised an 11.3 percent pay raise under terms of a two-year-old wage pact deal. This would take their hourly pay to euro23.98 ($33.44). The Electrical Contractors Association says its members cannot afford that and instead want 10 percent pay cuts. Weekend negotiations failed to break the impasse. The strike is not threatening Ireland's electricity supplies.

7/1/2009 Estonia Today nearly 1000 people gathered in Narva, since they were unhappy that from today they can bring only two packs of cigarettes from Russia instead of previous ten, Postimees writes. ―Participators climbed on a pedestal where Lenin’s statue was before. Juri Mi‰in (chairperson of Russian citizen’s Narva department – edit) and Aivo Peterson (a social democrat – edit). Both stressed that they don’t smoke,‖ Aleksander Mauser, a journalist at Narvskaja Gazeta said. Protesters carried posters which read ―where is a program against unemployment‖ and ―smoking is harmful, but Ansip is more harmful‖. Protesters do not only protest against restriction on cigarettes, but Employment Act. Mi‰in read a letter written by a handicapped person who brought cigarettes and cures to his/her neighbour from Russia. Now the pensioner doesn’t get these goods. The protest started at noon for 50 minutes. Protesters also demanded Andrus Ansip, the PM to resign

7/1/2009 Latvia Union members' opinions will be compiled by the end of this week and further action will be decided after that, but there is no doubt that a protest will be organized at the Cabinet of Ministers' building, said Jirgensons. A one-day warning strike is also possible. "Maybe nothing changes because this government just will not listen. But it also means that the government will not stay in office for long," believes Jirgensons. Jirgensons does not deny that changes and reforms are indeed necessary, but the way the government rates all employees alike is unacceptable. According to Jirgensons, the workload at such agencies as the State Employment Agency, State Social Insurance Agency or the State Revenue Service has increased twofold, but employees at these agencies will have their salaries cut as much as in other areas, where the workload has not changed or even decreased. As reported, the government decided yesterday to reduce salaries in the public sector. The Finance Ministry's proposal was supported to reduce

7/2/2009 Greece Greek media go on solidarity strike. Greek media are to go on three-hour strike Thursday, between 12:00 and 15:00 hrs. The Union of Editors-in-Chief of Athens dailies decided that all media will join the strike to express solidarity with the employees of the recently shut down paper Eleftheros Typos and of City Radio. The journalists will gather outside the parliament’s building before heading towards the office of the Private Newspapers Association.

6/29/2009 Italy Striking Fiat SpA workers temporarily blocked the Palermo-Catania highway in Sicily and also held up rail links in the region, FIOM union official Roberto Mastrosimone said by phone today. Fiat workers at the Termini Imerese facility will strike for the whole day, Mastrosimone said. Workers at the carmaker’s suppliers are also striking.

6/25/2009 Greece Athens - Flights to and from Greece were grounded for several hours Thursday as air traffic controllers called a four-hour work stoppage to protest against pension reforms and low salaries. Air traffic at airports across the country were suspended from 8 am (0600 GMT) to 12 pm (1000 GMT) and air traffic controllers walked off the job, with only emergency flights landing and taking off. Dozens of airlines were forced to cancel and reschedule flights. Private airline Aegean said it cancelled 11 flights and rescheduled 46 others while national carrier Olympic said it cancelled 32 flights, including international flights to Istanbul, Frankfurt, Milan, Brussels, Budapest and Sofia. Olympic said they rescheduled departure times for international flights to Toronto, Canada and New York. The air traffic controllers were demanding that extra staff be hired and that their health-care benefits be improved.

6/22/2009 PolandOver 3,000 trade unionists from the Enea energy company are on strike today over alleged breaches in Poland’s labour law. Protests are taking place in the Wielkopolska, West Pomerania, Kujawy-Pomerania and Lubuskie provinces in the west and north of the country. ―The company is violating basic rules of the Labour Code,‖ claims Piotr Adamski, head of Solidarity trade union at Enea. ―Although the law guarantees Enea’s employees a pay rise, the company has not increased salaries as yet. Besides, Enea keeps on prolonging contracts for a specified time with newly employed workers, which is illegal,‖ maintains Adamski. Enea’s trade unionist are refusing to carry out routine maintenance work with the exception of emergency situations such as an outbreak of fire. Enea’s spokesperson Ewa Katulska assures that in spite of the protests there will be no cuts in supply to customers. If today’s limited protest turns out to be unsuccessful, trade unionist have vowed to go on a nationwide strike. Enea produces around 10 per

6/16/2009 Estonia "According to the Estonian Confederation of Trade Unions of Estonia, nearly 1,800 employees from 15 enterprises took part in the strike on Tuesday, writes the National Broadcasting/LETA. Nearly 700 workers from approximately ten enterprises embarked on a strike in the transportation sector. The Federation of Manufacturing Workers organised a strike in two Kreenholm's factories with more than 600 participants. 300 energy workers in the Eesti Power Plant were on a strike and 100 metallurgy workers stopped work in Silmet. The Confederation announced that trade unions also organised numerous strike meetings to support the organisation's demands. Lithuanian trade unions held a support demonstration near the Estonian embassy in Vilnius at noon on Tuesday in order to demonstrate their solidarity."

6/16/2009 Bosnia"Bosnian trade unions are threatening strikes and industrial action to bring down the Bosniak-Croat Federation government over new legislation that will create drastic cuts in public spending, BalkanInsight.com reported June 16. The bill, which the federal government adopted June 15 and sent into urgent parliamentary procedure, will significantly cut salaries across the public sector and reduce social benefits and pensions. The cuts are in line with spending reduction requirements from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). If and when the reductions are implemented, Bosnia could get its first allotment of stand-by funds from the IMF."

6/12/2009 UK"An unofficial strike by hundreds of oil workers in a dispute over jobs at the Lindsey Oil Refinery, in Lincolnshire, has entered its second day with 1,200 workers failing to clock into work this morning. The walk-out was ignited by a sub-contractor announcing 65 job losses on the £200 million HDS-3 (Hydro-desulphurisation) project, while another employer on the site was busy hiring workers.The current dispute is not connected to mass wave of wildcat strikes seen at the plant in January, in which hundreds of workers protest the recruitment of non-U.K contractors to work on the premises, or in May, when hundreds across the U.K. went on a two-day strike protesting a similar issue – but this time at the South Hook liquefied natural gas terminal at Milford Haven, Wales."

6/11/2009 UK"Hundreds of workers at the Lindsey Oil Refinery in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, on June 11 walked out on unofficial strike in protest against a sub-contractor announcing 51 job losses, AOL news reported. The energy company, Total, which owns the refinery, confirmed workers are on strike, but said operations at the refinery are not affected. The strike is in a unit that was at the center of a conflict earlier this year over the hiring of non-British workers."

6/9/09-6/11/09 UKJune 11 (Bloomberg) -- A strike by workers on the London Underground railway entered a second day, disrupting trains that carry as many as 3 million people a day and causing traffic congestion across the capital. Members of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers including drivers began a 48-hour strike on June 9 over pay and job security. The strike on the railway known as the Tube is due to end at 6:58 p.m. tonight.

6/3/2009 Italy"About 150 politicians from Italy’s small, liberal Radical party have begun a hunger strike to protest what they say is a lack of television coverage ahead of an election for the European Parliament. The party said on Wednesday that it wanted RAI, the state TV company, to rebalance its coverage. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi controls most of Italy’s mainstream television, through his ownership of the private broadcaster Mediaset and his indirect influence over RAI."

5/21/2009 Spain"Patxi López, the new Socialist lehendakari in the Basque Country faces a general strike in the region today, something which never happened under the previous President of the Government, the nationalist Juan José Ibarretxe. Unions were out early this morning organising pickets, and marches and demonstrations are planned for later in the day. The strike has been called against the Government’s policies in the face of the recession. The Councillor for the Interior of the Basque Government, Rodolfo Ares, has said his department would guarantee the right to strike, in the same way that it would continue to guarantee the right to work."

5/20/2009 UK ―About 800 workers and demonstrators mounted the protest at the refinery at South Killingholme, northeast England -- which comes months after a rash of similar action across Britain -- police said. Workers also held strikes at a liquefied natural gas terminal at Milford Haven in West Wales, and an oil refinery in Lincolnshire, eastern England. The strikers complained that a contracting firm broke an agreement to give jobs to local workers at the South Hook site in Milford Haven when it hired a number of Polish workers.‖

5/14/2009 Greece "Greek public administration employees in Greece began a 24-hour strike Thursday, demanding salary and pension rise. The national airliners cancelled more than 150 flights because of the strike. The 24-hour walkout left much of the country's schools and hospitals closed. Only the emergency cases have been admitted to hospitals. The protesters will stage a massive rally in downtown Athens on Thursday."

5/13/2009 Croatia "Doctors and teachers have rejected a wage freeze which was introduced by the government to combat an economic recession and which abolished a previously agreed six-percent pay hike. The unions announced last week that primary, high school and university teachers would go on strike on Wednesday, while those employed in public health services would join them on Thursday. The protest for higher wages would then culminate in a huge rally at Zagreb's main square at the weekend. The unions are demanding that the government commits to an immediate pay increase once the European Union candidate has recovered from recession. "

5/6/2009 Germany"Several thousand parents were left without childcare on Wednesday as an estimated 19,000 teachers and social workers went on strike across Germany...Trade unions Verdi and the GEW said they called the strikes in order to put pressure on municipalities to improve health protection for some 220,000 teachers and social workers across the country. According to union figures, only 58 percent of social workers and 26 percent of educators see themselves reaching retirement in good health under the current working conditions."

5/6/2009 RomaniaAbout 60,000 public workers launched a warning strike Tuesday (May 5th), demanding more money and fewer political appointees in the public sector. One of the most powerful unions in the sector, the Sed Lex Alliance, organised the stoppage. The union asked the cabinet to cancel a provision that allows political parties to influence staffing decisions in key positions. Strikers also want the cabinet to close the gap between the highest and the lowest salaries in the system by cutting maximum wages and increasing minimum ones."

5/1/2009 Greece"In Athens, thousands of protesters marched as part of annual May Day rallies as strikes disrupted public transportation, ferry services and flights."

4/30/2009 Romania"Romanian education trade unions decided today to call a general strike on May 5, 13 and 21, when pupils were to undergo the single subject examination, as the law concerning their salaries raise was not obeyed."

4/29/2009 Britain "The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) has announced that 1,000 Jarvis workers will work to rule and stage a one hour strilke in response to plans to cut 450 staff.The action will take place on 5 May. The union said talks with transport secretary Geoff Hoon broke down after he refused to give any assurances over rail industry job cuts.RMT members at Jarvis will refuse to carry out overtime for all shifts on Tuesday 5 May and will strike on the same day between 12.00 and 13.00hrs."

4/27/2009 BritainPostal Union declaring strike due to job cuts…"The union said it has seen plans Royal Mail is to cut between 8% and 20% of staff across the country. The CWU said London would be hit the hardest with 1,600 jobs at risk."

4/27/2009 Ireland"North Dublin commuters are facing travel chaos as an unofficial strike by angry bus drivers enters its second day.Dublin Bus said 18 routes will be cancelled after workers at the Harristown depot, close to the airport, downed tools in protest at the introduction of new schedules.Areas affected by the stoppage include Ballymun, Finglas, Donabate, Swords, Blanchardstown, Kimmage and a raft of other areas in the north of the city."

4/23/2009 Britain"Passengers are facing further misery at Stansted Airport after baggage handlers and check-in staff voted to strike over the Bank Holiday. Passengers are facing further misery at Stansted Airport after baggage handlers and check-in staff voted to strike over the Bank Holiday...The dispute among airline staff is over pay and around 500 union members voted three to one in favour of strike action to secure an improved offer from employers Swissport.

4/21/2009 Ireland"Workers at a branch of Tesco in Douglas, Co Cork have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action over the company’s plans not to honour established terms and conditions for staff moving to a new store in the area.Mandate, the union representing the 80 workers at the Douglas branch of the multinational retailer, says the company is ignoring a long standing agreement with the union guaranteeing workers transferring to new premises the right to hold onto their current terms and conditions. The Tesco store in Douglas is due to move to new premises on May 1st next. The union says the company has said openly it is not willing to accept all staff members from the old store on their current contracts. They say the company is using the using the transfer of workers to a new store ―opportunistically‖ as a means to erode terms and conditions in order to maintain unrealistic profit levels.

4/20/2009 France "Workers at France's nuclear power plants of Dampierre in central France and Chinon in southwestern France extended on Monday a strike which began on April 16, the CGT union said."

4/16/2009 France"A 24-hour strike by energy workers in France had cut about 6,000 megawatts (MW) of the country's power capacity by early Thursday afternoon...The strike, which began at 1900 GMT on Wednesday, is the latest in a series of stoppages carried out by French energy workers this year to protest about pay and jobs."

4/13/2009 Russia"A strike has been declared by civil personnel of the Russian Navy…The strike is being called because of the failure of defense enterprises to pay wages that are due to the majority of the 800,000 civilian employees"

4/9/2009 France"A 24-hour French energy strike on Thursday to protest over pay had not cut electricity production capacity. The strike comes against a backdrop of a jump in the pay of Pierre Gadonneix, EDF's head, who sees his salary in 2009 rising by 25 percent to 760,000 euros ($1.01 million) per year. Strikers are demanding a 5 percent salary increase."

4/9/2009 Britain"Journalists at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail are to go on strike for a further two days in response to 24 staff members losing their jobs. Before being told of the job losses on Wednesday, they had already planned to hold a second strike on Friday. Following an emergency meeting they have now agreed to strike for a further two days next week."

4/8/2009 France"The Eiffel Tower was closed Wednesday after employees went on strike to demand better work conditions and security at one of the world's most visited tourist sites. Ticket offices at the Paris landmark were shut and staff were seen handing out leaflets in English, French and Spanish that said they were seeking improvements to visitor services and job security for staff."

4/8/2009 Britain "Members of Britain's largest rail union voted to go on strike in protest at planned job cuts at East Midlands Trains...RMT general secretary Bob Crow said the company was planning to cut more jobs than the 162 it had already announced, and accused it of trying to sidestep a requirement to give workers 90 days notice of redundancy."

4/2/2009 Greece"Hundreds of thousands of Greeks joined a nationwide 24-hour strike on Thursday to protest against the government's response to the economic crisis, disrupting transport and shutting down services. Flights to and from Greece were suspended for several hours, banks and schools shut down."

4/2/2009 France A seven-day strike on France's gas network has ended with an agreement and gas flows at entry points will be restored on Thursday, transmission network operator GRTgaz said…Workers had been occupying compressor and metering stations which had disrupted the arrival of gas into France but consumers had not been affected as GDF Suez (GSZ.PA) reverted to liquefied natural gas (LNG) and storage. The workers had been angered by stock options payments to managers."

3/26/2009 France"Gas tanker workers for the French utility GDF-Suez are going on strike to protest the awarding of more than 1.1 million stock options to the company's two senior executives...The CGT trade union, which has called the open-ended strike, expects 80 per cent of the employees concerned to walk off the job."

3/26/2009 Ukraine"Hundreds of striking Ukrainian bus drivers blocked key roads in Kiev to protest against increased licensing fees and allegedly oppressive city government regulations, snarling traffic and stranding thousands of motorists. More than 700 privately-owned buses were parked on Kiev's main thoroughfare the Khreshchatyk by early morning, causing commuter delays of up to an hour."

3/25/2009 Spain"Unions will hold a one-hour strike across Spain's 47 state-owned airports on Wednesday to protest at plans to part-privatise AENA, the world's largest airport operator, organisers said on Tuesday. The strike, between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. local time (0800 GMT to 0900 GMT), would include air traffic controllers, firemen, maintenance workers, administrative staff and other workers, trade union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) said in a statement."

3/19/2009 FranceFrench energy strikers cut 10,000 MW in power capacity by midnight GMT.French strike cuts 9,000 MW in nuclear power capacity in 11 different plants.

3/19/2009 France"A new wave of nationwide strikes by angry workers demanding that French President's Nicolas Sarkozy do more to fight the economic crisis hit France on Thursday."

3/17/2009 Britain "Passengers face disruption on three of London's busiest

3/2/2009 Belgium "Thousands of Belgian postal workers have started a three-day strike to protest working conditions and the threat of job losses."

2/25/2009 Greece "24-hour strike by Greek civil servants disrupted services across the country Wednesday, forcing public hospitals to accept only emergency cases and airlines to cancel at least 68 flights."

2/24/2009 Kosovo "About 13,000 health workers went on strike over the government's failure to secure a promised pay rise of 44 euros per month agreed in October."

2/17/2009 Ireland"Irish bus drivers will begin a series of strikes on Feb. 28 in protest at hundreds of job cuts...Around 2,500 bus drivers may take part in the strike, bringing public bus services across Ireland to a standstill in the latest protest in a European country over the effects of a deepening global economic downturn."

2/12/2009 Germany"At 6 am, airport workers at Tegel walked of the job for two hours. Seven flights were cancelled, most of them with Germany’s biggest carrier Lufthansa"

2/5/2009 France"Thousands of French university lecturers took to the streets today amid violent clashes as part of a growing "unlimited" strike movement against government higher education reform plans...Strikers are protesting against 200 job cuts planned for this year, a change to their professional status that would grant more powers to university presidents over their staff's careers, and a reform to the way lectures, across all sectors, are trained."

2/3/2009 Germany"A strike over pay crippled public transport in Munich and seven other cities in the southern German state of Bavaria...The union is seeking a pay increase of 9.5 per cent for the 6,500 employees of the Bavarian communal transport association."

1/30/2009 - 2/5/2009 Britain

"Strikes have been breaking out across the UK in support of a

mass walkout by energy workers in Lincolnshire angry at the

1/29/2009 Germany"Workers for German national rail provider Deutsche Bahn staged a warning strike early on Thursday morning that disrupted train traffic around the country. Some 300 workers walked off the job in Nuremberg, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne in an ongoing wage dispute with Deutsche Bahn."

1/29/2009 France"Train delays, closed schools and jammed roads greeted the French today as labor unions called a one-day strike in what could turn into the biggest protest since President Nicolas Sarkozy was elected in May 2007."

1/28/2009 Greece Greek air traffic control strike to ground flights

1/21/2009 Bulgaria Bulgarian Civil Society Activists Stage United Rally before Parliament

1/20/2009 France (Guadeloupe)"The general strike, which began on January 20th, is headed by a grouping of 50 unions and associations calling themselves Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon, meaning ―Stand Up Against Exploitation‖."

1/15/2009 China"Workers at Decro launched a sit-in, refusing to leave the factory, after they learned that the company's legal representative and managing staff from Hong Kong and further abroad had disappeared."

1/15/2009 Brazil GM employees strike against job cuts

1/8/2009 China"Workers with DeCoro, a leather upholstery producer with a factory in the southern city of Shenzhen, went on strike in protest over not having been paid for two months."

12/15/2008 Hungary Strike at Budapest airport to protest economic layoffs.

12/13/2008 ItalyGeneral strike against handling of financial crisis, strike by the General Confederation of Italian workers (CGIL)

12/12/2008 Russia Construction workers strike in Urals city amid financial crisis

12/12/2008 ItalyCGIL union is going ahead with a general strike to protest government policy on labor, pensions and salaries.

12/11/2008 GreeceOrganized by Greek General Confederation of Workers (GSEE) and the Civil Servants Supreme Administrative Council (ADEDY),

11/18/2008 FranceAirline pilots, train drivers, teachers, students and postal workers lead a series of strikes against government labor reforms.

10/21/2008 Greece Organized by GSEE

10/17/2008 ItalySaw a general strike against the attacks being waged on working people by the government of Silvio Berlusconi.

10/6/2008 BelgiumInternational train services halted and government offices closed as thousands of workers across Belgium protested against rising living costs.

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