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Nearly 300 employees from the University of Windsor are on strike as of yesterday (Sunday) morning.

According to CBC News, talks between university staff and the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 1393 ended an hour after the midnight strike deadline.

This is mainly due to the fact that both parties couldn’t agree on issues like job security and the pay-equity system.

Syria’s chemical weapons attack allegations and peace negotiations were the main topics discussed at a U.N. meeting in Paris on Sunday.

BBC News reports, that U.S. secretary of state, John Kerry, and the Arab League agree that Syria crossed an international global red line when they used chemical weapons in the ongoing civil war there.

There is a division in terms of a retaliatory strike on Syria among, Arab League nations. Saudi Arabia and Qatar are for it, while Syrian neighbours, Lebanon and Jordan oppose it because of fears of the conflict spreading across their borders.

It finally came to an end.

The hunger strike by prison inmates that had been taking place in a California prison for almost two months has ended.

Inmates had been refusing meals as a form of protest against solitary confinement for months.

On Thursday, Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard announced that all inmates now accepted to receive their meals.

Posters on both of Concordia University’s campuses are sporting a new slogan- “so close to a deal, so close the deal!”

This is because hundreds of unionized employees at the University have been working without a collective agreement for years. And on Tuesday roughly 150 members from various unions gave up their lunch break to demonstrate.

The demonstrators are hoping to get the administration back to the bargaining table.

At the moment, 14 of the 15 unions are working without labour agreements.

Library workers, support staff, part-time faculty, technicians, professionals and tradespeople have gone without a salary increase for almost five years.  

In Bosnia-Hercegovina, a group of miners decided to trap themselves inside a coal mine.

They are outraged at their bosses for not keeping true to their word about their paychecks.

In a report by BBC News, the 140 miners dug themselves over 800-feet deep below the ground at the Djurdjevik coal mine on Monday.

It's located north-east of the capital, Sarajevo.   

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The Movement Citoyen Handicap-Québec staged a slow-moving, peaceful protest Sunday to demand equal rights for the disabled.

The participants, those severely disabled, sight impaired and otherwise unable to work in traditional jobs, made their way from Lafontaine Park to Premier Pauline Marois’ office in traditional and motorized wheelchairs.

According to the Gazette, the MCHQ claims it is the first demonstration of its kind to bring attention to problems in the provinces social aid program.