Friday, June 1, 2007

UPDATE 2-S.Africa civil servants mount major strike

(Reuters) - JOHANNESBURG, June 1 - South African civil
servants staged the biggest strike in three years on Friday,
causing turmoil in some hospitals and emptying classrooms as
unions demanded a hefty wage hike.




Police fired stun grenades at picketing workers outside Cape
Town's Tygerberg Hospital, injuring at least one person, as many
nurses across the country defied a government ban on job
stayaways by essential workers, the SABC reported.


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