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Armenia

Students go on strike to protest education reforms in Armenia

by OC Media

•5 min read

A student strike has been sparked by proposed reforms which would make Armenian Language, Armenian Literature, and Armenian History no longer mandatory for University students. On 6 November, students from the Armenian Philology and History Faculties at Yerevan State University organised a student strike. The students were protesting against the new reforms proposed by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, and Sports. The faculty also joined the strike to show support to their

Evolution Gaming

Georgian online casino employees unionise for strike after mass firings

by Shota Kincha

•3 min read

Employees of online gambling provider Evolution Gaming in Georgia have created a union after several employees claimed to have been fired for demanding better wages and working conditions. Evolution Gaming is a Swedish company listed in Stockholm that provides gambling services to a number of prominent online casinos internationally, including Malta-based Betway and London-based William Hill. The company provides ‘live dealers’, where players interact with a real dealer via a live-strea

Chiatura

Speaking up through sewn lips: a wildcat strike in Chiatura

by Dato Parulava

•9 min read

After starting a sudden and unsanctioned strike earlier this month, miners in Chiatura stitched their lips together to demonstrate how much their hazardous occupations cost. Around 3,000 mine workers went on strike in the industrial City of Chiatura, in western Georgia, earlier in May. They worked for Georgian Manganese LLC, the largest employer in the ore-rich but otherwise poor dust-covered city, a city where the river has turned black due to manganese contamination. Numerous workers ha

Social workers protesting outside the Government Chancellery in March 2019. The poster to the left reads: ‘social workers are not superman!’ Photo: Shota Kincha/OC Media.

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Striking Georgian social workers demand meeting with Prime Minister

by OC Media

•6 min read

Georgia’s social workers are demanding a meeting with Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze in order to address the ‘systemic changes’ they say are needed to the social services system. Almost all of the country’s social workers began a nationwide strike on Monday, holding simultaneous protests in Tbilisi, Kutaisi, Batumi, and Telavi. Trade unions the Solidarity Network and Georgian Trade Unions Confederation, as well as several rights groups, joined the protest in front of Tbilisi’s Government C

Georgia

Georgian aircraft factory workers go on strike

by OC Media

•3 min read

Around 120 workers at an aircraft manufacturing factory in Tbilisi have gone on strike after negotiations with the company’s management failed. Workers from Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing (TAM) were demanding higher salaries, a bonus system, a pension system, a collective contract, and improvement of sanitary and hygienic conditions in the factory. TAM is a majority state-owned aerospace and weapons company that has operated since 1941. The strike started early morning on 27 February as

Georgia

Georgian social workers set to strike unless work conditions improve

by OC Media

•5 min read

Almost all of Georgia’s social workers are set to go on strike on 1 March, over what they say are poor working conditions and a lack of resources. The country’s social workers have long argued that the system is overextended and fails to ensure adequate services to vulnerable groups. On 8 February, dozens of employees of the Social Service Agency submitted a strike notice to the agency and the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs on behalf of around 200 of the agency’s 239 social workers

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Tbilisi Metro resumes service as drivers and Mayor Kaladze reach agreement

by OC Media

•4 min read

The Tbilisi Metro resumed functioning Wednesday afternoon, after metro drivers union Ertoba 2013 reached an agreement with Mayor Kakha Kaladze and his office. The metro had been closed since Monday morning, when after being barred from going on strike by the courts, drivers began a hunger strike instead, making them physically unfit to work. Kaladze thanked the metro drivers and said the Mayor’s Office had ‘reached a compromise with workers’, saying that the matter of pay rises would be rev