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...festival of the bun hills" on the tiny isle of Cheung Chau is one of the territory's most colorful festivals. Large bamboo towers studded with longevity buns are erected by the islanders to pay homage to the god of the sea. The climax of this eight-day fiesta is a resplendent street procession of costumed children on stilts. Go to discoverhongkong.com for details...
...Labour government - traditional champion of working people - shoving more money into public services yet struggling to keep a lid on what the workers in those services get paid. Tony Blair's government was facing the biggest labor crisis of its five-year tenure last week as firefighters finished an eight-day strike, some teachers walked off the job for a day and other unions talked of backing the firefighters, who plan another walkout this week if no deal is reached, with strikes of their own. Blair's government was unusually flat-footed in its p.r., sending out mixed messages through...
...following the tense pay negotiations between the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and their employers, a network of local government authorities that manage the brigades; when the talks broke down around 7 a.m., amid cries of betrayal from all sides, the firemen knew they were in for an eight-day walkout - with the possibility of two equally long strikes scheduled before Christmas. For Collis, 46, the immediate problem was financial: the firemen wouldn't be paid while on strike. "The prospect is frightening," he said. "I'm worried about defaulting on the mortgage, and I've just canceled Christmas - there...
...worst-case scenarios imagined by tabloid journalists and military planners ahead of the U.K.'s first fire-services strike in 25 years came to pass. But as the 48-hour shutdown ended, there was no collective sigh of relief either. With the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) planning an eight-day walkout starting Nov. 22 - and two more of equal duration in the run-up to Christmas - there will be plenty of opportunities for those scenarios to play out. Ironically, the absence of a major disaster last week may have reduced the chances of a deal on the firemen...
However, over the last several years dialogue has led, at least in the protestors’ eyes, to nothing. The more radical actions of students like those at Berkeley, however, have reaped large rewards. In the spring of 1999 Berkeley students staged an eight-day hunger strike in which 100 people were arrested in order to save their ethnic studies department. The costs were high—five students were put on trial for their activities during the strike—but their demands were...