German rail strikes cause "massive" disruptions
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German rail workers extended strikes over pay on Tuesday, causing what operator Deutsche Bahn said were "massive" disruptions for early morning commuters in big cities including Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich.
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Airports across Germany were braced for further chaos from midnight yesterday after pay talks between management and pilots at the country's main airline Lufthansa broke down.
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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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Rail workers join France's rolling campaign of strikes in the public sector, causing widespread disruption.
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Rail travellers are facing a third day of disruption, as engineering work continues to overrun.
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Paris' subways slowed to a halt and rail lines were disrupted Thursday during a massive strike in France that was expected to give President Nicolas Sarkozy his first real test after five months in office.
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Millions of commuters in London endured  travel chaos on Tuesday as a 72-hour strike by maintenance  workers closed most of the underground rail network.
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French railway workers severely reduced train traffic Wednesday due to a strike over working conditions, and the country geared up for separate protests by energy workers and hospital surgeons.
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PARIS, Oct 23 (IPS) - The joint strike action by French and German  railways workers Oct. 18 disguises wide differences in approach  to industrial action in the two countries.
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A second day of strike action over pension reforms disrupts French rail services, with the Paris metro badly hit.
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PARIS, Oct. 18 -- French public transportation workers staged a strike on Thursday, bringing most rail, bus and subway service across the country to a standstill and delivering a vivid warning to President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose plans to reduce generous but costly public pensions face stiff...
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Rail services along one of Britain's key railway networks were severely disrupted after a train derailment caused a section of the line to be closed.
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Londoners face travel problems because of strike by tube staff.
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Railworkers across Italy will strike for 24 hours from Sunday night to protest poor safety levels on the network following a train crash which killed 17 people last week, transport unions said.
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More than 10,000 German miners halted work in protest at government plans to shut down German coal mines by 2018 and calls by the regional premier of North Rhine-Westphalia state, where most of the mines are situated, for an even earlier phase-out date.
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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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National strike will hit public transport across nation.