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Irish public sector trade unions suspended a second day of widespread strikes planned for next week after they agreed on Friday to begin mediated discussions with the government this weekend ...

There is “no need to worry” about the possibility of fuel shortages impacting the Turkish Cypriot community, Turkish Cypriot petrol station owners’ association chairman Levent Cagdal said on Wednesday, despite ...

Turkish Cypriot electricity workers’ trade union El-Sen went on strike on Monday after a worker suffered serious injuries following an explosion at a transformer station last week, with the striking ...

Staff at the culture ministry staged a one-hour spontaneous work stoppage on Wednesday morning, protesting against what Pasydy described as repeated attempts by the ministry’s director-general to bring its ...

A 24-hour strike by more than 11,000 hourly paid government workers, due to begin on Thursday morning, was called off on Wednesday after union leaders met President Nikos Christodoulides. The meeting, ...

Nursing staff at Larnaca general hospital staged a one-hour work stoppage on Wednesday morning in protest over longstanding problems, including overcrowding and staff exhaustion. The spontaneous stoppage, held between 8am ...

Hourly paid civil servants remain on course for a nationwide strike on September 17 unless the government submits a revised pay proposal beforehand, representatives of three trade unions informed on Thursday. ...

The Union of Cyprus Municipalities will stage a three-hour protest strike on August 3 as a first measure of reaction, having rejected the government’s latest funding proposal, which they claim ...

Trade unions at the Electricity Authority of Cyprus have suspended strikes planned for Thursday following a meeting at the presidential palace on Tuesday afternoon. The meeting was attended by the ...

Cyprus could face rolling power cuts from Thursday as strikes by Electricity Authority of Cyprus workers are expected to reduce available power, the Transmission System Operator Cyprus warned on Tuesday. ...

Hourly paid government employees marched from the finance ministry to the presidential palace on Wednesday morning chanting slogans including ‘No to Starvation Salaries’ and ‘End the Mockery, we are not ...

Public hospitals have been placed on full alert ahead of Wednesday’s 24-hour strike by hourly paid government employees, with state health services organisation Okypy saying measures are in place ...

Hourly-paid government workers will hold a 24-hour strike on Wednesday to protest over low wages and unresolved labour demands, they said on Friday. The action was announced by unions SEK, ...

The three unions representing employees at CyBC have announced a one-hour strike on Friday, from 8pm to 9pm, citing long-standing unresolved labour issues. The unions accused the broadcaster’s management ...

Wardens at the central prison will go on strike for 24 hours on Friday next week, trade union Isotita announced on Wednesday. The union demanded the immediate termination of disciplinary proceedings ...

Forest firefighters staffing the Forestry Department will be staging a strike on May 25 and 26 to protest the violation of their work description. Trade unions SEK, PEO and Deok said on ...

Electricity authority (EAC) employees went on a 24-hour strike on Thursday, with trade unions warning of further escalating measures. Union boss Kyriacos Tafounas told media that, unless the government engages ...

Electricity authority (EAC) headquarters and customer service officers will remain closed on Thursday due to the 24-strike called by the trade unions. In a statement on Wednesday, the EAC said ...

An indefinite strike by hourly workers at the government printing office began on Wednesday, causing potential disruption to the printing of ballots for the upcoming parliamentary elections. The 22 hourly employees ...

Resident doctors in England started a six-day walkout on Tuesday after rejecting an offer the government said would not get better, with the British Medical Association saying it failed to ...

Thousands of people descended on the Turkish Cypriot legislature on Monday, with a general strike of Turkish Cypriot public sector workers also called, to protest the north’s ruling coalition’...

Workers at the Electricity Authority (EAC) on Tuesday threatened escalating strike action, demanding that independent authorities investigate a series of suspicious activities that they say point to an undermining of ...

Around 100 Wolt drivers gathered outside the company’s headquarters in Nicosia on Monday as a strike over working conditions at the delivery service continued. “From here to four kilometres they ...

The man responsible for recruiting riders for food delivery company Wolt on Saturday threatened striking workers with termination, the Cyprus Mail has learned. Mantvydas Matthew Narusevicius is the chief executive ...