On 25 November, 2005, the paper went on Strike action, protesting layoffs of 52 workers.

And 1,000 workers took to the streets in Shanghai this month to protest layoffs at a tire factory.

Workers have angrily protested layoffs, pay cuts and severance terms seen as more generous for some overseas employees than for those at home.

There were forty-eight strikes in the public sector alone in 1990, protesting the government's economic austerity program and layoffs of public-sector workers.

In South Korea, tens of thousands of workers walked off their jobs late last month to protest impending layoffs.

Thousands of workers went on strike to protest growing layoffs in South Korea.

That month in the central Chinese city of Hefei, hundreds of textile workers protested forced retirements and layoffs.

The union has scheduled a Fight Back Rally outside City Hall on April 29 to protest layoffs.

A labor organizer said the strikers were protesting layoffs of Mongolian staff by Soviet managers.

In October 2012, a union strike mobilized to protest planned layoffs by the Haaretz management.