World crisis spurs protest from French workers

Paris - France's workers, never known to shrink from the barricades, are meeting the global economic crisis with strikes and protests. Dockworkers at the English channel port of Le Havre, which processes nearly two-thirds of French cargo, recently cut the number of vessels loading and unloading there by half. A one-day strike earlier last month at Electricite de France SA, Europe's biggest electricity generator, plunged parts of the City of Light into darkness...

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