And Germany's Lufthansa, whose ground crew and cabin staff are on strike over pay, fell 3%.
The row came as up to 130, 000 CWU members strike over pay and pensions.
The move comes as some civil servants stage a one-day strike over pay and pensions.
About 3, 000 members of Nipsa are staging an indefinite strike over pay and job re-grading.
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Hundreds of bus services have been cancelled as bus workers in Devon and Cornwall strike over pay.
German airline Lufthansa has cancelled the majority of its flights scheduled for Monday due to a strike over pay.
Talks to end a week-long police strike over pay in the Brazilian state of Bahia have ended without agreement.
But a narrowly averted strike over pay by airline staff in the run-up to Christmas delayed, and may block, the switch.
Civil servants from government departments and driving test centres have taken part in a strike over pay, jobs and terms and conditions.
Kingfisher, once India's most luxurious airline, cancelled all its flights since Oct. 1, 2012, after its employees went on strike over pay.
Binmen went on strike over pay and allowances last Wednesday and Thursday.
The tragedy began unfolding a week ago when miners went on strike demanding pay hikes at the mine near Rustenburg, about two hours northwest of Johannesburg.
The union chief was speaking at a rally in Glasgow in support of 9, 500 Scottish workers with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), who are on a 48-hour strike over pay.
The NUT and the NASUWT have already announced joint strike plans over pay, pensions and workload.
Indeed, doctors have become the latest group threatening to go on strike unless their pay is increased.
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The bulk of the work stoppages in 2010 came during a public-workers strike over higher pay demands.
According to news reports, some 30, 000 coal-mine workers in South Africa have gone on strike seeking a pay increase.
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Some healthcare workers, who look after people with learning difficulties in Lincolnshire, have gone on strike over a pay dispute.
In 1951 he persuaded Antigua's sugar workers to strike for more pay.
In 1987, he led 300, 000 miners in a three-week pay strike.
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In view of the fact that there has not been a national teachers' pay strike for almost 40 years, he was asked how serious the threat was.
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In his speeches, Mr Mbeki condemns the collapse of the culture of learning: the teachers' unions that strike for implausible pay increases, the students at Venda University who burned down campus offices because the administration would not give them 30 cans of beer each for a party.
Ground staff have called a one-day strike amid an ongoing pay dispute with the airline.
Earlier this week, almost 2, 000 officers went on strike to demand better pay and working conditions.
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The retrenchment cost millions in separation pay and strike losses, but it paid off.
Around 12, 000 miners at another gold mine have downed tools in a wildcat strike, demanding more pay.
Teachers at an academy school in east London are on strike after their monthly pay was docked for taking part in national work-to-rule-type action.
The airline has been grounded since Oct. 1 after a strike by employees over pay, and later the suspension of its flying license by the regulator.
London Underground (LU) station cleaners have begun a 48-hour strike in a dispute over pay.
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