Strike action

While the confrontation between the education union and the authorities continues, the strike in education has left almost 320,000 pupils out of class since September 1.

Pilots are on strike again after negotiations over a new collective agreement failed

Kosovo pupils found their classrooms empty of teachers on the first day of new school year, after the teachers' union acted on warnings to strike to force the government to increase their salaries.

The school strike adds to another strike which started last week by administrative workers in many central and local institutions.

Railway and postal staff, dockers too. Britain's workers are striking in vast numbers as decades-high inflation erodes the value of wages at a record pace.    

Britain's train network faces further heavy disruption today and on Aug. 20 in major walkouts that follow the sector's biggest strike action for 30 years already this summer.    

Train drivers at eight British rail companies will go on strike later this month in the second large-scale industrial action set to affect commuters in July.

The Aslef train drivers' union said its members will walk out for 24 hours on July 30 over pay disputes.

Ljubljana – The SDTS, the retail workers’ union, said on Thursday that disgruntlement is growing in the sector in the face of stagnating wages despite ever growing profits. “There have been open demands for a strike,” it said. Addressing the press in Ljubljana, SDTS secretary general Ladi Rožič said the union had tested the sentiments with a petition.

Travel on Britain's railway system ground to a halt again yesterday, as the second of three days of widespread strike action this week billed as the biggest in decades got underway.

Thousands of rail workers staged the latest day-long walkout over pay and working conditions, plunging commutes into chaos and forcing many people to stay at home.

Ljubljana – RTV Slovenija director general Andrej Grah Whatmough has urged the public broadcaster’s in-house trade unions to cancel the strike planned for Monday and sign the strike agreement he has offered them in a bid to prevent “irreparable damage to news programmes”. But the unions have responded by saying the strike will go ahead as planned.

North Macedonia's Union of Workers in Education, Science and Culture, SONK, is expected to continue talks on Wednesday with the Education Ministry over its demands for an immediate pay rise and a series of further salary increases linked to the cost of living over the coming years.

Ljubljana – Nurses, staff at social care institutions and pharmacies went on strike this morning after yesterday’s negotiations brought no meaningful progress, neither a pay increase similar to a recently agreed one for doctors and dentists. Public broadcaster RTV Slovenija has reported that 50,000 staff would be on strike today.