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1903 France 35,000 textile workers stop work in Armentières and Houplines to put an end to 14 years of a wage freeze. It will take 46 days to reach an agreement with the bosses defended by the dragoons on horseback.

1934 United States of America The American Federation of Labor votes to boycott all products made in Germany in order to protest Nazi antagonism towards German unions.

1942 France 3,000 railway workers gather at 11 am in the central SNCF workshops in Oullins, against the requisition of 30 of their comrades, designated to work in Germany. The strike spreads throughout the southern zone, not yet occupied by the Germans.

1944 Canada The Trades and Labour Congress of Canada charters Federal Labour Union 180 at Vancouver General Hospital. This is the beginning of the Hospital Employees' Union of British Columbia, now the province's largest health care union.[more]

1953 Africa 24 hour strikes in Senegal and Mauritania for a 40 hour week paid as 48.

1992 United Kingdom British govt announces closure of 31 coal mines with loss of 31,000 jobs. Provokes mass protests.[more]

2014 United Kingdom 500,000 health workers strike for four hours in first national pay strike in 32 years

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