His reporting exposed the integral role Egyptian labor strikes and worker protests played in the coup against Mubarak.

In the southern cone countries, the union movement, having spread to white-collar workers and peasants, erupted in large-scale worker protest.

This method of handling worker protests is potentially risky for the Communist Party.

But Mr. Zedillo's efforts to proceed with the sales stalled a year ago in large part because of worker protests.

Despite the worker protests, economists said that change was necessary for the industries, which are among the last in Europe to preserve their monopolies.

But I do wonder how many of the Labour elite have been involved in street-level worker protests, like strike action.

The few attempts during this period to found independent trade unions or organize worker protests were ruthlessly suppressed, with their leaders severely punished or executed.

Swissinfo gallery of images from worker protests.

And the announcement has sparked worker protests at both the eastern and western factories.

Already thousands of worker protests, wildcat strikes and other disputes are reported each year over everything from unpaid pensions to corruption to intolerable hazards.