Workers in the Philippines faced various struggles in 2024, from inflation-driven wage demands to the fight for public health insurance.

Hundreds of NUMSA members began a strike at the Ekapa diamond mines on August 7. On August 10, police forces arrested 43 striking workers after attacking the picket line with water cannons and tear gas

Teachers had rejected the recent government offer on pay rise, arguing that it neither accounts for the decline in real wages, nor offers solutions to the understaffing and underfunding of schools

Unions have questioned the policy of linking wage hikes to inflation, claiming that official inflation rates are unreliable. They also warned against government attempts to impose a “strike ban”

School teachers and their unions in Scotland launched the ‘Pay Attention’ campaign last year demanding a 10% hike in wages to meet the soaring inflation

Health workers across the UK are mobilizing for industrial action starting with a strike by nurses in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland on December 15 and 20

The Danish health sector is struggling without adequate staff and resources, even as workers in female-dominated professions like nursing make less money than those in male-dominated professions

Security staff at various airports across Germany, under the leadership of the Verdi union, are demanding a general increase in hourly wages along with pay parity in different sectors of work 

Thousands of nurses and midwives went on a day-long strike in Australia’s most populous New South Wales State to protest stagnating wages and unsafe staffing conditions

A strike deadline was announced by the United Auto Workers unions at various John Deere plants after workers overwhelmingly voted against the company’s tentative contract

The Universities Academic Staff Union had threatened to launch a strike on Monday over employers’ failure to provide the salary adjustment and clear arrears in payments as promised in the 2017-21 Collective Bargaining Agreement

In a vote held among members of United Steelworkers which represents the workers at Vale Canada, over 70% voted to reject the deal the company had reached with negotiators