French teachers strike over hours
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Teachers in France stage a strike in protest at plans which would remove their right to teach for fewer hours.
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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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A strike by Air France flight attendants left frustrated passengers facing delays and cancellations for a fourth day Sunday, with long-haul flights among the hardest hit.
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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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Up to 130,000 postal staff will stage a 24-hour strike next Friday -- their first in more than a decade -- in a row over pay and conditions, union leaders said on Thursday.
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Thousands more workers at British Airways voted to strike for 24 hours over pay during a busy public holiday weekend later this month, union leaders said.
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Thousands of Airbus workers went on strike at its French factories on Tuesday, protesting against the European planemaker's restructuring plan that has dominated France's presidential election campaign.Comment
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Many schools in Italy have been affected by a strike over school reforms and feared budget cuts.
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Unions representing the pilots, flight attendants and ground staff of the troubled Italian airline Alitalia have called a four-hour strike for Monday.
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Classroom assistants are getting ready to picket outside schools as their one-day strike action gets under way.
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Cocoa workers in the Ivory Coast go on strike for a second day in a dispute over pay and conditions.
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PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's first real test after five months in office comes at rush hour today, with a strike disrupting flights and trains around Europe, and stripping Paris of public transport - all because of anger over plans to trim some retirement packages.
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Striking transport workers shut down most of France's rail network on Thursday in a protest over pensions, posing the biggest test yet of President Nicolas Sarkozy's ability to push through economic reforms.
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Thousands of teachers and other public service workers stage a one-day strike in France.
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A French railway strike began, which will bring chaos for train travellers nationwide, as rail unions joined a rolling campaign of stoppages in the public sector.
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Civil servants and teachers are the latest to go on strike,  as protests against public sector job cuts continue.
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France s rail and electricity workers began a one-day strike today, joining other public service staff in week-long protests against government plans that they say will result in job losses and lower wages.