Lausanne, Switzerland (TSR, Fre) – A thousand civil servants took to the streets Thursday to protest the canton’s new salary scale. The largest union did not participate and the mini-strike lacked the impact of protests in January, when 12,000 people including many teachers, went on strike. A strike is planned for 31 May, when more civil servants are expected to join.
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 16 May 2008 at 6:55 | permalink
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News story, GenevaLunch, 16 May 2008.
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Tags: Lake Geneva region, Swiss news
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October 30th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
[...] union workers organized two earlier protests, a relatively major protest, by Swiss standards, in January 2008 and a smaller one in May. [...]