LONDON — Women across France downed tools on Monday afternoon at precisely 4:34 p.
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Perhaps 1.6 million people downed tools and textbooks in Germany, according to early estimates.
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Around 48,000 employees downed tools, disrupting more than 50 factories and car-parts warehouses.
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Workers at six of France's seven refineries downed tools on Tuesday, the CGT union said.
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They accounted for about three-quarters of the total number of American workers who downed tools.
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In late August, the workers downed tools because of uncertainty over payments for July and August.
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Nearly all of the 1,300 unionized workers at Cerro Verde downed tools at 7:30 a.m.
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That's not far off the total who downed tools in 12 significant U.S. strikes last year.
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The mine's transformation has also caused tension with workers, who downed tools for a 14-day strike in June.
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The 1,300 workers in the union downed tools at 7:30 (12:30 GMT), said union leader Cesar Fernandez.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Workers downed tools over three weeks ago, despite last-minute concessions by the U.S. carmaker.
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Workers this week downed tools at Optimum Coal, another Gupta-owned mine, concerned over the non payment of their salaries.
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CGT said union members had also downed tools and were blockading Elengy's, Fos and Montoir liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals.
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Workers at Cajamarquilla had downed tools on Monday to demand higher wages and better benefits, according to a union leader.
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In a wave of midday patriotism, vast swathes of the capital's workforce downed tools and trooped off to the nearest pub.
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CODELCO: Workers at Codelco-owned Chuquicamata mine, which produced 21.2,219 tonnes of copper in 1.63, downed tools on Friday after a failed labour deal.
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Junior doctors in the country's public hospitals downed tools in September to protest poor wages which had been worsened by the Zimbabwe's economic crisis.
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LONDON — Women from all over the UK have just downed tools and left their workplaces in an act of protest against the gender pay gap.
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On Tuesday, university students protested at new, tougher entry requirements, garbage collectors blocked access to incinerators, and a small number of energy workers downed tools.
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Over 30,000 workers downed tools on Wednesday morning, including over 8,000 staff at factories of German car maker Opel, IG Metall said in a statement.
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First, Eric Ábidal, Messi's former teammate and now Barcelona's sporting director, suggested the playing squad had essentially downed tools to bring about Ernesto Valverde's dismissal.
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MAPUTO (Reuters) - Workers at Brazilian mining giant Vale's Mozambique Moatize coal mine downed tools on Friday in a dispute over bonus payments, a local television station reported.
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"It was not a total shut down," he said, adding that workers at Exxon facilities had downed tools when the company handed out sacking letters on Monday.
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Last year, workers at Escondida downed tools for more than month and a half before opting to extend the current contract and renegotiate a new one this year.
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Many students, who have launched their own demonstrations against education reform, joined the protest, and some workers in other sectors downed tools in sympathy with the rail workers.
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On Monday, more than 3,000 employees downed tools at sports car maker Porsche in Stuttgart, and around 400 at elevator maker OTIS in Berlin were expected to do likewise.
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In Berlin, around 400 workers at elevator maker OTIS downed tools, along with others at dozens of other companies across Germany including truck maker MAN and automotive supplier Wabco.
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Air traffic controllers in France have downed tools in protest at labor reforms and a reduction of staffing levels being pushed through by the government of President Emmanuel Macron.
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Workers at the mine downed tools more than two weeks ago, angered by a company drive to root out illegal miners which has included the arrest of employees for collusion.
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Audi said it is struggling to keep production running at its plant in Brussels, Belgium because some workers had downed tools over concerns they were exposing themselves to the virus.
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The walkoff at Escondida, where workers downed tools for 43 days in the first quarter, chopped 180,0.73 tonnes off the commission's previous estimate in January, Cochilco said in its quarterly report.
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The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), which represents around 43 percent of Sibanye-Stillwater's workforce in South Africa, downed tools in November after wage talks with the company broke down.
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JOHANNESBURG, June 26 (Reuters) - South Africa's Sibanye Gold said that its Cooke operations west of Johannesburg would remain closed on Monday, almost three weeks after workers downed tools in a wildcat strike.
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The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), which represents around 43 percent of Sibanye-Stillwater's workforce in South Africa, downed tools on Wednesday night after wage talks with the company broke down.
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Sibanye flagged last month that its 2018 bullion production would miss guidance and come in at 1.1 million ounces, despite plans being implemented to curb losses after workers downed tools in mid-November.
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Workers downed tools to demand an 8-soles ($2.38) hike to the daily wage of about 80 soles, but management has only offered an increase of 1 sol, said union leader Julio Ortiz.
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Hotter weather led to the loss of 153 billion hours of labor in 2017, a 60 percent jump from 2000, as workers in construction, farming and other industries downed tools, often squeezing family income.
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Workers from the largest union operating at the South Deep mine downed tools in November after the bullion producer announced plans to cut 1,100 jobs at the mine - near a third of its workforce.
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JOHANNESBURG, June 12 (Reuters) - South Africa's Sibanye Gold on Monday updated the number of illegal miners arrested at its Cooke operations to 202 from 178 since workers downed tools last week, a company spokesman said.
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Workers belonging to the General Industrial Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA) downed tools on May 12 following a dispute over the employees' medical scheme, despite an interim court interdict against any strike action, Amplats said.
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The then prime minister, Alain Juppe, attempted a wide program of welfare cutbacks but was forced into a climb-down after railway workers downed tools over his plans to end the right to retire at 55.
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The then-prime minister, Alain Juppe, attempted a wide program of welfare cutbacks but was forced into a climb-down after railway workers downed tools over his plans to end the right to retire at 55.
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Security workers at the smaller Hamburg, Hanover and Bremen airports downed tools from midnight while those at main hub Frankfurt joined them two hours later, with a view to striking until 2000 local time (1900 GMT).
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A horse-racing meeting in the western suburbs was canceled and outdoor construction workers downed tools for the day, but governing body Tennis Australia said early on Tuesday that "conditions onsite (were) improving" at Melbourne Park.
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Workers belonging to the General Industrial Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA) downed tools on May 12 following a dispute over the employees' medical scheme, despite an interim South African court interdict against any strike action.
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EDF said on its website that hydropower production was cut by 280 megawatts (MW), while its 535 MW Porcheville 3 fuel-powered generator and the 580 MW Havre 4 generator, reported unplanned outages after workers downed tools.
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Last month, workers at Peru's biggest copper mine, Freeport-McMoRan Inc's Cerro Verde, downed tools for three weeks to demand a better share of mining profits after production at the mine doubled and global copper prices improved.
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At least 15 mining firms in South Africa have received notices of strikes to be held this week in support of colleagues at Sibanye-Stillwater who downed tools over wages and job cuts, Minerals Council South Africa said.
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On Monday, more than 13,000 employees downed tools at sports car maker Porsche in Stuttgart, taking the number of industrial workers who have taken action since the start of last week to more than 15,000, according to IG Metall.
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Thousands of Kuwaiti oil workers downed tools for a third day on Tuesday to protest against planned public sector pay reform, cutting crude output to 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd), according to an oil spokesman cited by news agency KUNA.
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LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambian workers have downed tools at a mine and copper processing plant belonging to Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), a unit of Vedanta Resources, in a dispute over the pace of wage talks, a union official said on Wednesday.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Growing unrest at Sibanye-Stillwater's South African gold operations has left nine people dead since workers downed tools in November, prompting the country's mines minister to call on the police to step in and protect the local community.
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BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of German industrial workers downed tools on Tuesday in support of trade union IG Metall's demands for a 6 percent pay rise and a right to the first new cut in weekly working hours since the 1980s.
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JOHANNESBURG, March 5 (Reuters) - Growing unrest at Sibanye-Stillwater's South African gold operations has left nine people dead since workers downed tools in November, prompting the country's mines minister to call on the police to step in and protect the local community.
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But on Tuesday, workers had downed tools at its sites in and around Rome as well as in the city of L'Aquila, where her teams were contracted by government agencies to restore old buildings that had been severely damaged during a 2009 earthquake.
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Harare (CNN)Senior doctors in Zimbabwe's public hospitals have downed tools in protest against deteriorating working conditions and the firing of over 435 junior medical officers by the government following a three months-long impasse over poor salaries, the doctor's association said.
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Workers in the 2,500-member Escondida Union No. 1 downed tools early on Thursday after collective wage talks with the company failed, beginning a strike that threatens to imminently affect supplies for one of the most widely used industrial metals in the world.
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At least 0.33 mining firms in South Africa, home to the world's biggest platinum group metals deposits accounting for over 90 percent of global output, have received notices of strikes next week in support of colleagues at Sibanye-Stillwater who downed tools over wages and job cuts.
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At least 15 mining firms in South Africa, home to the world's biggest platinum group metals deposits accounting for over 90 percent of global output, have received notices of strikes next week in support of colleagues at Sibanye-Stillwater who downed tools over wages and job cuts.
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Karl Artelt was one of the strike leaders. During the winter the food supply situation worsened. At the end of March 1917, it was announced that bread rations were to be reduced. In protest 1,450 workers from the Howaldt shipyard and 4,000 workers from the Germania shipyard downed tools.
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When the restructuring plan was announced, workers at the Bellinzona downed tools and held an informal protest. A formal strike commenced on 7 March 2008. The workers demanded that all plans for job cuts be withdrawn. Workers' assemblies proposed alternative plans for the future management of those workshops which FFS Cargo intended to close.
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1923 proved to be the post-war peak. Coal output in Wales dropped from a total of that year to in 1928, and continued to fall as ships converted from coal to oil. In May 1926 GWR was involved in the General Strike of mineworkers, continuing to run trains during the strike while miners had downed tools.
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In 2002, plans were laid down for the project. Work began in 2004. In February 2008, work on the project was interrupted as more than 1,300 laborers downed tools in a dispute over pay. Workers who were based at a labor camp in the development site, went on strike demanding better salaries and complaining of poor living conditions.
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The present day castle was built between 1780 and 1790 by John Bateman. Although it is called a castle, it is actually a Georgian house. The contractor was a Mr. Sheehy and the stone was brought from Athea by horse drawn sledge. By 1798, the majority of the interior was finished but with the Fitzgeralds about to become bankrupt, the craftsmen downed tools and left the castle.
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Enlisted airmen downed tools and refused to work until their grievances about demobilisation had been met. Given the nature of the times, this was impossible, although their complaints were passed up the chain of command. The stoppages were non-violent almost to a fault, and since the personnel involved were hostilities-only conscripts, rather than regular professional members of the RAF, the stoppages were not formally treated as mutinies. Had they been so, punishments up to and including execution by firing squad could have been imposed on those responsible.
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There were also small protests at Gleadless Townend (which caused disruption to bus services and car traffic as they blocked roads, but let trams through), at nearby Manor Top, and near Spring Lane tram stop. Cumbria's annual Schoolympics sports day was cancelled as staff downed tools. Approximately 200 public-sector workers rallied in Carlisle and PCS members picketed the Rural Payments Agency, in Carlisle, and the British Cattle Movement Service, in Workington. A schools strike hit Brampton, so parents hired the community centre between 1230 and 1530 to take their children along for a £2 entry fee.
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The Halewood plant was also used for assembling the Ford Corsair between the model's 1964 launch and 1969. Female machinists at Ford, Halewood downed tools and walked out in solidarity with their southern colleagues in Dagenham in 1968. In the 1960s the female machinists at Ford were classified within the company pay structure as grade B. That meant they were officially unskilled, despite having to pass tests in order to gain their employment. After years battling for recognition as skilled workers, they finally walked out, bringing car production to halt and becoming the focus of national news stories.
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A House of Assembly was created at the same time in Bermuda (which had also been settled by the Virginia Company, and was by then managed by its offshoot, the Somers Isles Company) and held its first session in 1620. A handful of Polish craftsmen, brought to the colony to supply skill in the manufacture of pitch, tar, potash, and soap ash, were initially denied the political rights of English settlers. They downed tools in protest, but returned to work after being declared free (probably in the sense of civil liberty) and enfranchised, apparently by agreement with the Virginia Company.
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At the time of the strike, the labour movement in New Zealand was expanding rapidly. The New Zealand Federation of Labour (known as the "Red Fed"), which was linked to the Socialist Party, was gaining considerable support from the working class, and the Waihi Trade Union of Workers, to which many miners belonged, was part of the Federation. Disputes between the union and the large Waihi Goldmining Company were frequent. Miners had many grievances regarding their working conditions and often downed tools and walked off the site in response to accidents in the mine (falls, broken limbs, crushing, brusings and even the occasional fatality).
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Jan Appel was involved in German Revolution of November 1918: :“When, in November 1918 the sailors revolted and the workers of the shipyards in Kiel downed tools, we learned at the Vulkan military shipyard from the workers what had happened. There followed a secret meeting at the shipyards; the factory was under military occupation, work ceased, but the workers remained in assembly in the enterprise. A delegation of 17 volunteers was sent to the union headquarters, to insist on the declaration of a general strike. We insisted on holding an assembly, but it turned out that the known leaders of the ADGB and the SPD and of the unions adopted a negative an attitude towards the strike.
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According to the BBC in 2004, Thatcher "managed to destroy the power of the trade unions for almost a generation". The miners' strike of 1984–85 was the biggest and most devastating confrontation between the unions and the government under Thatcher. In March 1984, the National Coal Board (NCB) proposed to close 20 of the 174 state-owned mines and cut 20,000 jobs out of 187,000. Two-thirds of the country's miners, led by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) under Arthur Scargill, downed tools in protest. However, Scargill refused to hold a ballot on the strike, having previously lost three ballots on a national strike (in January and October 1982, and March 1983).
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"A Bit of Matthews History" – Blackpool F.C.'s official website, 9 December 2010 After his death, more than 100,000 people lined the streets of Stoke-on-Trent to pay tribute. As the cortège wound its way along the 12-mile route, employees downed tools and schoolchildren stood motionless to witness his final passing.The Sentinel, 19 November 2005 After his death, dozens of footballing legends paid tribute to him, and the epilogue to his autobiography contains several pages of quotations. Pelé said he was "the man who taught us the way football should be played", and Brian Clough added that "he was a true gentleman and we shall never see his like again".
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In 1980, the plant was picketed by steelworkers who were striking at British Steel plants, and in 1984, miners who were on the miners' strike picketed the plant because the Co-Steel workers had not downed tools to join them on strike as other steelworkers had. However, Co-Steel, a Canadian registered company, was an independent steel- making concern and not part of the then Nationalised British Steel. The 1980s were an unsettled period for the steel industry and the Co-Steel management implemented changes to working practices and also persuaded all employees to become salaried staff as part of the company with a medical plan. In doing so, the whole plant became non-union by 1992.
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A detailed study of The Chalet is included in "Fine Houses of Sydney" by Robert Irving, John Kinstler and Max Dupain. The following historical outline and description are largely drawn from that study. The Chalet is the only surviving residence of four prefabricated "Swiss Cottages" that were shipped from Hamburg to Sydney and erected in Hunters Hill during the gold rush period in 1854 or early 1855 by a French-speaking Swiss immigrant Etienne-Jean- Leonard Bordier-Roman shortly after his arrival in Australia. Prior to this time, Bordier and the French Count Gabriel de Milhau (exiled for his part in France's 1848 revolution) had initially settled on the Clarence River, however they were forced to abandon the venture when their workers all downed tools and headed for the NSW goldfields.
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Gottfried started working at Chemical Bank in the financial district on May 27, 1968. By late August, a small band of girl watchers had noticed her, and that she always followed the same route. They timed her daily arrival and started spreading the word to their colleagues and co-workers. For three weeks, the band of gawkers grew exponentially larger until on September 18 there were 2,000 people waiting for her. By this point the crowd itself had become the phenomenon drawing the crowd, and the following day, September 19, over 5,000 financial district employees downed tools, left work and poured into the streets at 1:15 pm to watch the 5-foot 3-inch brunette exit the BMT station clad in a tight yellow sweater and miniskirt and walk to her job at the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company's downtown data processing center.
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