Strike shuts Bulgaria's schools
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Thousands of teachers begin an indefinite strike in Bulgaria, demanding a doubling of their pay.
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French teachers went on strike on  Thursday, the third day of public sector protests over pay,  reforms and job cuts that have sent a sharp warning to  President Jacques Chirac's conservative government.
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Teachers picket their secondary school as 35 staff strike in a long-running dispute over a new pay structure.
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A one-day strike by BBC staff protesting at compulsory redundancies is called off after negotiations.
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French teachers went on strike on Thursday, the third day of public sector protests over pay, reforms and job cuts that have sent a sharp warning to President Jacques Chirac's conservative government.
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Shops and schools were closed across Bangladesh yesterday after the main opposition party called a general strike to demand the government resign over a deadly grenade attack on a political rally.
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Thousands of teachers and other public service workers stage a one-day strike in France.
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KYIV, Ukraine (CP) - Opposition leaders called Wednesday for a nationwide strike to shut down factories, schools and transportation after officials declared Ukraine&#39;s pro-Kremlin prime minister the winner of a presidential runoff election that many
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A two-day strike called by communist rebels has shut down the capital and major towns in Nepal. The rebels have threatened to derail parliamentary elections that the government plans to hold next year.
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Much of Italy has been shut down Tuesday by a general strike called by unions to protest Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's economic policy.
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Politics: 8 November 2004, Monday. Workers and officers in Bulgaria's arms repair plant TEREM have launched one-hour effective strike in the town of Targovishte, north Bulgraia.
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Israel was paralysed by a general strike as trade unions imposed a shutdown in protest at local authorities' failure to pay thousands of staff amid a budget clampdown by the right-wing government.
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Politics: 23 September 2004, Thursday. Bulgarian Balkancar Holding employees gathered in front of the Privatization Agency office in Sofia on Thursday to protest for their unpaid salaries.
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Fifteen years after the collapse of communism in Bulgaria, unions said hopes of better living standards were dashed and urged their members to hit the streets Wednesday and protest the government economic ...
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A county in southern Virginia closed its 21 schools on Wednesday to clean them to prevent the spread of a dangerous bacterial infection that killed a 17-year-old high school student, officials said.
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Many schools are shut as thousands of South African public sector workers go on strike for higher wages.
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Operations of global software companies, financial institutions and government offices in India's main technology hub shut on Wednesday after activists called a strike over a border dispute with a neighboring state.