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Last week huge marches across Argentina marked the 50th anniversary of the military coup that still echoes in the country's politics. During the dictatorship thousands of trade unionists were disappeared, tortured and murdered. (Photo: ITUC) Click here to read more labour news from Argentina.Got a photo that should be here? Post it to our group on Flickr. To see an archive of all our recent photos, click here.
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Today in Labour History
1844 United Kingdom Miners in Northumberland and Durham held a mass meeting with up to 40,000 in attendance and went on strike for better conditions and equal pay across different mines. It lasted 20 weeks and was the biggest UK strike to that date.
1885 Belgium 59 workers 'associations founded the Belgian Workers' Party (POB). Universal suffrage, compulsory education, separation of Church and State are the strengths of its program.
1910 France The retirement age is set at 65. The CGT refers to this as a "swindle" (life expectancy was then less than 49 years).
1927 United Kingdom Parliament adopts a labour relations law prohibiting sympathy strikes and general strikes.
1975 Fiji 350 airport workers refuse to service Air Pacific planes in solidarity with striking airline employees.[more]
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