French protests on 35-hour week
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French workers are urged to protest in numbers against the government's plans to reform the 35-hour week.
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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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French civil servants and teachers are the latest to go on strike, as protests against public sector job cuts continue.
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The French already enjoy a 35-hour work week and generous vacation. Now the health minister wants to look into whether workers should be allowed to sleep on the job.
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Trade unions in France aren't giving up their short work week without a fight. They gathered more than 300,000 people Sunday for marches in cities across France, to protest plans to chip-away at the 35-hour ...
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Rail workers in France are on strike over the government's policies of economic liberalisation, which they say threaten the public sector.
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Supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo say he is under attack by France to resign, but they will defend him. Protests against French interests continue one day after French troops neutralized
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PARIS, Oct 17 (IPS) - Five months after taking office as president,  Nicolas Sarkozy has run into a crisis over labour issues. Railway  workers and staff at electricity companies, among others, plan to  strike Oct. 18.
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Russian Orthodox-Catholic relations, France's 35-hour working week and Germany's peacekeeping role feature in today's review
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Hundreds of angry French farmers mounted blockades around the country Monday to hold up fuel shipments in protest at soaring diesel and gasoline prices and to press their demands for government aid.
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France's centre-right government stood defiantly by plans to make the 35-hour work week more flexible with the controversial prospect of longer hours, despite mass weekend protests.
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Spain&#39;s prime minister must hate  Saturdays. That&#39;s the day of the week hundreds of thousands of  people march through the streets of Madrid chanting for him to  resign for allegedly making concessions to Basque rebels ETA.
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Thousands of striking taxi drivers drove at a snail's pace around France on Wednesday as part of a protest against government plans to open up their business to greater competition.
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BERLIN/PARIS (from news wires) - President Nicolas Sarkozy of France faced setbacks on two starkly different domestic fronts Thursday: a wave of strikes that swept through France and an official announcement that his 11-year marriage had come to an end. The 24-hour strike halted most trains, subways and buses around the country, which led to the cancellation of and classes at some schools and theatrical performances. Only 46 of the country's 700 high-speed trains were running. Many museums were closed. Workers at the state-owned electric and gas utility companies joined the walkout, leading to a reduction in electricity output. Meanwhile, all across Germany, commuters faced major disruptions for the second time in a week as train drivers began a new strike early on Thursday to support pay demands.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (CP) - France defended itself Friday against accusations by Ivory Coast authorities, and some western evacuees, that it used excessive force to protect foreigners against violent mobs during five days of upheaval in its former West
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France's prime minister defended thousands of job cuts at European planemaker Airbus on Thursday, but unions threatened to vent their anger during upcoming French elections while factory stoppages spread in ...Comment
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A two-day work stoppage called by Togo's opposition to protest at what they call a military coup gets a mixed response.