News archive on the topic "strike"

The west of Kazakhstan is once again engulfed in strikes, and an inadequate response from the authorities and employers could lead to an outbreak of mass protests, which, against the backdrop of an energy and utility collapse, will inevitably cause another political crisis. International columnist for PolitNavigator Ainur Kurmanov writes about this in his new article. The fact is that since December 11, five hundred workers of the oil service company West LLP went on strike...

A nationwide day of protest and strikes against pension reform took place in France. Millions of French people presented a united front against raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 years, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “No raising the retirement age from 62 to 64!” - under this slogan, on Thursday, January 19, the first national day of protest against pension reform was held in France...

The operation of two Borjomi mineral water factories has been suspended by the management of the owner company. The reason was declared to be the Russian Northern Military District of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. This was preceded by a week-long confrontation with the employee administration, which ultimately resulted in an indefinite strike by Borjomi employees. More than half of the 800 representatives of the team took part in the protests - they demanded a salary increase of 25% (the maximum salary of employees is approximately 200...

Moldovan passenger carriers entered a three-day strike. They demand that the government increase ticket prices. Due to increased fuel prices, their services have become unprofitable. Both intracity and intercity transportation have ceased. People vote en masse on the highways and are forced to take taxis. The government of pro-Western President Maia Sandu says the problem is imaginary. In fact, the transport supposedly works, and from…

In Georgia, the strike of social agents ended in victory; their duties include identifying families in need of government assistance. The work involves constant stress, traveling around villages and hard-to-reach places of residence in any weather. The wages of social agents remained miserable for years (about 130 US dollars, an allowance for a family visited was 60 cents), and travel expenses were not reimbursed. Requirements…

The political crisis in Georgia, the protracted confrontation between two main political forces - the Georgian Dream (government party) and the United National Movement (the party de facto led by Mikheil Saakashvili) - is entering a new phase. The main theme is the impoverishment of the people, the intolerable social situation of the lower classes, the inability and unwillingness of the authorities to change their flawed economic policies. Issues coming to the forefront of Georgia’s political agenda...

The strike in the country announced by the so-called “Belarusian Association of Workers” failed, which shows the split in the opposition camp. Nezavisimaya Gazeta, which supports the Belarusian Maidan activists, writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The call for a strike by workers in Belarus did not work. The fact that it was taking place could only be learned from the organizers themselves. This confirms the assumption that in the Belarusian opposition...

The all-Belarusian strike promised for today failed miserably. The fiasco was predicted in advance not only by the authorities, but also by the opposition. Lukashenko’s opponent, political scientist Pavel Usov, stated this on Euroradio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Today we can state that the forecasts of 90% of those who criticized such a hasty decision were justified. Nobody believes that from the call...

The All-Belarusian strike announced by opponents of Alexander Lukashenko should begin tomorrow, November 1, but this is not certain. So far, appeals to workers look comical. Videos appear online showing a group of men wearing plastic helmets with slogans in Polish standing on the streets of Warsaw and chanting: “Worker, go on strike! The Diaspora will support!” Then the men start pounding their helmets on the European pavement...

The opposition organization “Belarusian Union of Workers” announced the start of a general strike in the country from November 1. The announcement is being circulated through foreign media and social networks of fugitive opposition bloggers, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This cannot go on any longer. It's time for workers to take the future into their own hands. We have no right to delay any longer while our relatives, friends and associates are in prison...

Since the end of June, strikes by oil workers have not stopped in the Mangistau region in western Kazakhstan, and they are quite capable of leading to nationwide strikes and an increase in protest sentiment in the country. These speeches with socio-economic demands for improved working conditions and higher wages can be called a legitimate reaction of collectives to the tightening of the neoliberal raw materials model of capitalism, built in the interests of Western extractive...

Ukrainian farmers are announcing a warning strike on March 16 at 9-00. The reason is tax pressure on the agricultural sector, in particular on medium and small farms. Representatives of industry associations stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a Politnavigator correspondent reports. For example, the introduction of licensing for storing fuel for their own needs has led to the fact that farmers cannot store...

Supporters of the Belarusian opposition admit that the so-called “general strike” announced on Monday has effectively failed, but they hope for success in the future. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, writes Kommersant, who spoke with opposition supporters. The publication’s interlocutor says that there is a certain reaction to the call for a strike by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who left the country and self-proclaimed herself a “national leader.” "For yesterday and today...

The incitement of ex-presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who fled to the West, to all-out strikes in Belarus largely remained just calls from the White Maidan activists, whose leaders are increasingly less in control of the situation. KP journalist Vladimir Vorsobin, who sympathizes with the protests in Belarus, spoke about this on the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In the morning there was a feeling that everything had failed...