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Reuters - Chinese electronics maker Foxconn, a key manufacturer of iPhones and iPads for Apple, has been hit by a new staff dispute, with employees saying they protested this week…

AFP - German workers who made sacrifices during the financial crisis say it is payback time now that the economy is thriving, company profits are climbing and unemployment has fallen…

AP - France’s finance minister declared that anti-austerity protests had reached “a turning point” Tuesday as garbage collectors began tackling Marseille’s reeking mounds of trash and a few French oil…

AP - French oil workers defied the government’s demand Monday to get back to work and end fuel shortages, stepping up their fight against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s retirement reforms, as…

AP - French oil workers on Monday defied the government’s demand to get back to work and end scattered fuel shortages, stepping up their fight against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan…

AP - Officials say a helicopter carrying oil workers has crashed in southeastern Mexico, killing all eight people on board.

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AP - French oil workers expanded a strike Friday over government plans to raise the retirement age, while European discontent over belt-tightening measures flared up in Portugal, Italy and Greece.

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AP - Seven U.S. Postal Service workers in Puerto Rico have been indicted on charges they trafficked thousands of parcels of heroin, cocaine and marijuana through the mail, federal prosecutors…

AP - Cuba is calling workers across the island to special meetings so labor leaders can brief them on half a million government layoffs coming in the next six months…

AP - Dozens of French soldiers operating out of a hotel in Niger’s capital and using reconnaissance flights over the Sahara searched Monday for seven workers for a French firm…