Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa 21 March 2014 (SHARPVILLE DAY!) Mining strike hits SA macro and micro economy ... The ongoing strike in the platinum belt is having a detrimental effect on the pockets of not only miners, but the community at large... As South Africas biggest post-apartheid mine strike marks its eighth week on Thursday, - it is already denting growth and export earnings, and many of those affected are having to sell their most prized possessions to make ends meet. @ mg.co.za/article/2014-03-20-mining-strike-hits-sa-macro-and-micro-economy and @ wsws.org/en/articles/2014/03/21/wkrs-m21.html Africa Ghanaian telecom strike Workers at Ericsson’s Internet service provider in Ghana have gone on indefinite strike for better wages and conditions. The divisional chairman of the telecommunications workers union, Ernest Koyo Apaku, told press that management had shown bad faith during negotiations leaving them no option but to strike. Negotiations began in April of last year and more than 16 meetings have taken place. The telecommunications union divisional chairman said they are not being paid the going rate for the job and the basic wage should be increased by 25 percent, which would include transportation and accommodation allowances. Protest at Nigerian transport company Nigerian workers at the state-owned transport company ITC Ltd, in Imo state, protested at the non-payment of seven months wages and allowances. They locked the gates of the company barring anyone from entry. A representative for the ITC workers, Chukwuemeka Okafor, said although attempts have been made to notify the government officially they have had no positive response. If the government do not address the issue, he said, they will not return to work. Sit-in at Sudan airport Security staff at Khartoum International Airport staged an eight-hour sit-in last Saturday to protest an outside company being brought in to do their jobs. The action affected scheduled flights. The airport management hired Al-Hadaf Company to take over security at airport gates while original staff disabled safety devices and withdrew. Witnesses said conflicts broke out between old and new staff. The workers man baggage security screens, impose safety regulations and secure the aircraft before take-off. Kenyan universities strike continues Currently strikes are taking place at universities across the country in protest at the Sh3.9 billion ($45m) paid out to universities but not passed on to staff as part of a national collective bargaining deal. This week at Moi University, Edoret, lecturers turned off the water supply and Internet services to the campus, paralysing most of the activity at the campus. Students are angry because they have paid their fees and the government have released the money to pay the lecturers, but accuse the vice chancellors of spending it on other items. The Domestic Hotels and Allied Workers Union along with the University Academic Staff Union and the Kenyan University staff Union came out two weeks ago. Students at Egerton University had threatened to join the strike after the negotiations collapsed, but the campus was closed. The reason given for the university closure was bad sanitation after the University Staff Union joined the lecturers strike. The chairman of the student union at the university said, “before the students were sent home, the situation was slowly degenerating into full-blown crisis.” Oil workers in Chad return to work Oil workers employed by the China National Petroleum Corporation and the China National Logging Corporation which supplies services to the oil industry returned to work on Monday after more than a week on strike. According to their union, the Chinese companies had agreed to a 20 percent pay increase and improved conditions
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