By AFPTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday announced the third major minimum wage hike in a year to try and combat a historic jump in consumer prices ahead of crunch elections.More than 40 percent of Turkey's workforce earns the lowest...

By AFPUK nurses on Tuesday staged a second unprecedented strike amid an increasingly acrimonious fight with the government for better wages and warnings that patient safety could be jeopardised.Up to 100,000 members of the Royal College of Nursing (R...

By AFPUK nurses on Thursday staged an unprecedented one-day strike as a "last resort" in their fight for better wages and working conditions, despite warnings it could put patients at risk.Up to 100,000 members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) i...

By AFPMore than 1,000 New York Times employees went on strike at midnight on Thursday in the first industrial action of its kind in more than 40 years, their union said.Journalists and other workers at the storied media outlet, often referred to as A...