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Hundreds of workers at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, go on strike to protest against a planned deal to lease the airport to the Indian conglomerate Adani Group for 30 years.
2024-09-11

Riots occur in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, following a strike by police over a reduction in their pay. Ten people are killed and 13 others are seriously injured as a result of the riots.
2024-01-10

Junior doctors in England begin their longest strike action yet, spanning nine days, to address pay-related disputes with the National Health Service.
2023-12-20

The United Auto Workers and General Motors ratify a contract to end the strike at General Motors plants across the United States.
2023-11-17

SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reach a tentative agreement to end the strike.
2023-11-8

Air traffic controllers at Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport in Lebanon announce they will go on strike next month due to severe staffing shortages, partially closing the airport.
2023-08-24

Over 31,000 teachers, nurses, counselors and librarians in Los Angeles, who have been without a contract for more than a year, go on a strike to demand higher pay after negotiations for improved compensation and work conditions failed.
2019-01-14

British-born American Oliver Hart and Finnish Bengt Holmström win the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on the science of contracts.
2016-10-10

Canada Post closes down operations after a campaign of rolling strikes by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.
2011-06-15

Highland Capital has brought an adversary proceeding within the U.S. bankruptcy court, New York, in regard to the Lyondell reorganization, against the securities unit of UBS AG for third-party inferenece with a contract between Highland and Lyondell.
2011-04-11