Striking French public sector employees take to the streets
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Hundreds of thousands of teachers, nurses, civil servants and other public workers marched in cities across France on Thursday during a one-day strike against President Nicolas Sarkozy's reform plans.
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PRETORIA - An estimated 800000 public servants are expected to take to the streets today in what has been billed the biggest strike in South Africa&#39;s history.
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Commuters crammed aboard the few trains left running and surgeons operated on only emergency cases as strikes over job cuts and pay disrupted French rail service and hospitals Wednesday.
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Thousands of French Airbus workers, blowing whistles, exploding firecrackers and flying banners, marched on the city centre here on Tuesday to force shareholders to retreat over cutbacks.
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A one-day nationwide strike by public transport workers leaves France with almost no train, bus or metro services.
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Mobs of government supporters looted French businesses and attacked French nationals Sunday.
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PARIS -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy's first real test after five months in office comes at rush hour Thursday, with a strike disrupting flights, trains around Europe and stripping Paris of public transport _ all because of anger over plans to trim some retirement packages.
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A 24-hour strike that could be extended began at 8 p.m. to protest plans by President Nicolas Sarkozy to overhaul early retirement plans for a limited group of public-sector workers.
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French postal workers began a 24-hour strike on Tuesday, starting three days of industrial unrest which puts the spotlight on discontent with President Jacques Chirac's conservative government.
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National strike will hit public transport across nation.
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Hundreds of workers rallied on the steps of the Labor Department yesterday to protest the implementation of new rules they say
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Defying tough warnings from the authorities, illegally unionized government employees went on an indefinite strike yesterday to protest the government&#39;s policy toward civil servants&#39; labor rights.
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France faced transport disruptions on  Saturday in some regions and a limited underground service in  Paris as a nationwide strike over pensions tailed off.
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The nationwide public sector strike which began yesterday morning has already affected some 24,000 would-be international travelers.
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Thousands of Airbus employees took to the streets to protest planned job cuts that have drawn fire amid a heated presidential campaign.
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France was hit by transport chaos Thurday as unions challenged President Nicolas Sarkozy with a 24-hour strike, but the government vowed to stick by plans to overhaul pensions for hundreds of thousands in the public sector.
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France braces for three days of strikes expected to cause massive disruption in the public sector.