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Police and students clash in Guinea amid strikes
Police in Guinea fired tear gas as hundreds of students armed with stones and sticks demonstrated in the capital Conakry on Monday over strikes by teachers that have blocked them from going to classes for weeks.Government centers, small...
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UAW Working on "Buy American" Campaign
The United Auto Workers union is working on an ad campaign that urges people to buy U.S.-made cars and trucks as it tries to tap into what it says is nationalistic sentiment that surfaced during President Donald Trump's election...
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Kenyan medics jailed for not calling off strike
A Kenyan judge has jailed seven officials of the doctors' union for a month for failing to call off a two-month strike by doctors at public hospitals that has seen at least a dozen die due to lack of medical care.Judge Hellen Wasilwa...
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Alitalia cancels flights due to pilots' strike
Thousands of travellers faced disruption at Rome's Fiumicino airport on Thursday due to a one-day strike staged by the workers of Italian airline Alitalia.The walkout, which started at 10:00 a.m. (09:00 GMT), has forced Alitalia to...
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German minister to UK: 'Let's stay friends'
Germany's foreign minister said on Wednesday that his government will support the EU's Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, in protecting the "common interests" of the European Union, but predicted a rocky road ahead during the talks."The...
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Thousands protest Macri economic policies
Thousands of people poured onto the streets of Buenos Aires to protest against the policies of President Mauricio Macri's government.Union members and social groups marched in what many say is a prelude to a nationwide strike called for...
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Thousands in Argentina protest Macri policies
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST:ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLYBuenos Aires - 30 March 20171. Tracking shot from children banging drums and singing to a group of women marching and holding signs during a protest against...
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Striking French Whirlpool workers
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST:ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLYAmiens - 26 April 20171. Wide of workers during strike, including Franciane Biget and Karin Letrun2. SOUNDBITE: (French) Franciane Biget, has been working for...
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PPP organises Labour Day demo in Karachi
Thousands of Pakistanis marched through Karachi on Monday to mark International Workers' Day. The marches were organised by the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the National Trade Union Federation of Pakistan (NTUF). Aurangzeb Taj, who...
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Huge protest in Athens as bailout talks go on
Several thousand protesters gathered outside Greece's parliament on Monday as May Day rallies kicked off around the country.The rallies came as unions braced for more austerity measures imposed by bailout lenders. Two large...
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200 flights canceled due to Alitalia strike
A strike called by unions of Alitalia staff in Italy ground 200 flights on Sunday.Unions Cub and Confael Assovolo called the strike to urge the government to nationalize the Italian airliner, which was put into administration on May 2...
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Analyst: May's gamble on election 'backfired'
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST:ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLYBrussels - 9 June 20171. Wide of head of European Union Foreign Policy Unit at Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) Steven Blockmans talking2. Cutaway...
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How Turkey's failed coup upended many lives
Abdullah Korkmaz worked in Turkish education for 18 years, as a teacher and elementary school principal.Then Turkey was roiled by an attempted coup, followed by a state of emergency, mass arrests and a wide-scale crackdown on civil...
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France CGT Demonstration Against Privatisation
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FRANCE: Trade union members demonstrate against government privatisation measures, and a rise in the cost of living.
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Hundreds of Puerto Ricans protest, decry austerity measures
Hundreds of Puerto Ricans took to the streets of the island's capital on Wednesday to protest austerity measures as anger builds over an unrelenting economic crisis that has hit the working class especially hard.
Protesters...
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Protesters urge Romanian govt to scrap tax rises
Thousands of Romanian public sector workers have rallied outside government offices in Bucharest on Wednesday to demand that the government scrap plans to hike the taxes paid by employees.
Protesters blew whistles, yelled...
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Barnier: EU hopes to reach agreement with UK before 2018
The European Union's chief negotiator in talks over Britain's withdrawal from the bloc said in Berlin on Wednesday that he hoped to reach a deal on a financial settlement before an EU summit in mid-December.
But Michel...
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Puerto Rico's electrical union speaks against gov. plan
Puerto Rico's Electrical Workers' Union fired back Tuesday after the governor announced Monday that he is moving to privatise the US territory's public power company.
It comes after the company's slow, troubled recovery...
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Argentina ballet dancers protest by performing in the street
Ballet dancers took to the streets of Argentina's capital Thursday, performing pirouettes to "Swan Lake" to protest government funding cuts.
About 80 dancers, choreographers, and other workers of the state-funded National...
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W. Va. Lawmakers, Teachers Cheer End of Strike
West Virginia's teachers are applauding the unanimous Senate approval of a 5 percent raise in pay for teachers and troopers, in a deal to end a nine-day walkout that closed schools statewide.
Teachers cheered in the Senate...
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Trains, flights, schools disrupted by nationwide strike in France
Nationwide strikes were causing major disruptions to trains, planes, schools and other public services in France on Thursday as unions set up dozens of street protests across the country.
The secretary general of the CFDT...
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Barnier: Irish border deal unlikely in coming weeks
European Union Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier says it's unlikely to expect any deal on the thorny issue of the Irish border in the coming weeks.
Barnier says following last month's agreement on guidelines that will govern...
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Public Sector Strikes In France Cause Chaos
Nationwide strikes were causing major disruptions to trains, planes, schools and other public services in France on Thursday as unions set up dozens of street protests across the country.
The secretary-general of the CFDT...
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Lebanon Union Demonstration
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LEBANON: Demonstration by taxi drivers and members of the Confederation of Trade Unions to Mansour Palace, the parliament building, at Museum Crossing between East and West Beirut, protesting the lifting of a subsidy...