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Originally posted by IandEye
according to another ats thread, those days are powerful for satanists.......
Washington Post
D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty is testing his tense relationship with city unions and local government employees by proposing to merge two labor relations boards as he guts the staff of both offices
Kyrgyzstan protests spread to capital, Bishkek
Police outside a government building in Talas, Kyrgyzstan (6 April 2010)
The Talas protesters took a local governor hostage
Opposition supporters are staging demonstrations in Kyrgyzstan to protest against rising fuel prices and what they see as official corruption.
BBC
Thousands of Thai anti-government protesters - known as "red-shirts" - have marched on parliament, amid high political tension in Bangkok.
The red-shirts forced MPs to call off a session and some breached security to enter parliament's grounds
BBC
CAIRO (Reuters) - Investment Minister Mahmoud Mohieldin said on Tuesday Egyptian labour protests were focused on wages and contract demands at specific firms and did not pose a broader risk to local or foreign investment.
Gaurdian UK
Teachers' union threatens strike ballot
NUT conference votes to ballot for walkout with other public sector staff if ministers cut services or freeze pay and pensions
Business Week
French Train Drivers Strike as U.K. Workers Consider Walkout
April 7 (Bloomberg) -- French train drivers began their third strike this year to push demands on pay and working conditions at the government-owned SNCF railway.
The walkout comes as signal workers at Network Rail Ltd., the owner of tracks and stations in Britain, consider reviving a strike plan blocked by a U.K. court. Pilots at Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Europe’s largest airline after Air France-KLM Group, also may strike this month, and British Airways Plc may face another round of stoppages by cabin crew.
Rueturs
Opposition to the government cutbacks is on the rise with almost daily protests and regular strikes. Police clashed with dozens of stone-throwing youths in Athens in front of parliament during a protest rally on March 18 but protests are much more low-key than the riots that rocked Athens in December 2008.
Opinion polls show a majority of the public opposes strikes and accepts the austerity measures as necessary. However, most citizens find the measures unfair because they do not sufficiently target tax dodgers and the rich.
Prime Minister George Papandreou's cost-cutting plan also faces opposition within his party. Labour unions representing half the country's 5 million-strong workforce staged their third 24-hour strike in a month on March 11 and more walkouts may follow.
This comes against a backdrop of discontent among leftist and youth groups who just over a year ago triggered Greece's worst riots in decades.
Montreal Gazette
With the winter term of thousands of students hanging in the balance, the Université de Montréal and the union representing 2,433 striking lecturers returned to the bargaining table with a conciliator hours after the union rejected what the university had called its final offer.
Irish Times
THOUSANDS OF Quinn Group employees staged protests in Dublin and Cavan yesterday to highlight their concern about the Financial Regulator placing Quinn Insurance in provisional administration.
They called on the regulator to overturn his decision to stop Quinn Insurance accepting new business in the UK.
The regulator launched an investigation into the company after successfully applying to put it into provisional administration at the end of March. The office had expressed “very serious” concerns about the company’s ability to meet its liabilities to policyholders and instructed Quinn to stop writing new business in the UK, which was described as “loss-making” and “unprofitable”.
India says it will push on with Maoist offensive
By INDRAJIT SINGH (AP) – 3 hours ago
PATNA, India — India will push ahead with an offensive against Maoist rebels despite the death of 76 government troops in an ambush by insurgents in the east, the country's top security official said Wednesday.
The ambush in a dense forest Tuesday was the deadliest single attack on government fighters in the 43-year-old insurgency. It stunned Indians, highlighted the growing threat posed by the Maoists and showed that the rebels appeared uncowed by a government offensive aimed at crushing them.
MOSCOW — Large-scale protests appear to have overthrown the government of Kyrgyzstan, an important American ally in Central Asia, after violence between riot police officers and opposition demonstrators on Thursday killed at least 17 people.
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The country’s president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, fled the capital, Bishkek, on his plane, and the opposition declared that it was forming its own government.
Tax Free UK
"Tax Free 15" is calling for 4 days of economic non-compliance from Thursday 15th April through to Sunday 19th April.