EU's powerful staff unions, which have gone on strike to block even the discussion of reforms.
That makes it all the more worrying that consumers now appear to have gone on strike.
Construction workers building a power station in Cheshire have gone on strike due to "inadequate on-site facilities".
Already, taxi drivers have gone on strike in Paris and elsewhere as a pre-emptive move against deregulation.
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Council staff in north London have gone on strike for the fourth time in protest at outsourcing plans.
According to news reports, some 30, 000 coal-mine workers in South Africa have gone on strike seeking a pay increase.
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Some healthcare workers, who look after people with learning difficulties in Lincolnshire, have gone on strike over a pay dispute.
The MDC reported Monday that many of the nation's doctors and nurses have gone on strike because of poor salaries.
Around 300 British Telecom workers in Northern Ireland have gone on strike over what have been described as "intolerable" working conditions.
There are varying reports about whether workers producing for Apple at a Foxconn factory in China have gone on strike or not.
Teachers at a West Yorkshire school have gone on strike in a second day of protest over proposals to turn the school into an academy.
In some areas, farmers have gone on strike, demanding police protection.
Medical secretaries and receptionists at three hospitals in West Yorkshire are among staff who have gone on strike in a row over potential job cuts.
Around 12, 000 of the union's members in the Home Office and Border Agency were scheduled to have gone on strike, which would have led to delays at airports and ports.
As more than one commentator pointed out, the only unusual thing about the players' mutiny was that it was probably the first time that French millionaires have gone on strike.
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BA. Cosseted by bail-outs and perks that included free flights for their children's nannies, the pilots have gone on strike several times over attempts to impose on them deals similar to those accepted by ground staff, whose pay was cut in 1994.
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Engineers have gone on strike.
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In response to what he described as "the most vicious ... attack on the judicial authority's independence" ever, only seven of Egypt's 34 courts are still operating and 90% of its prosecutors have gone on strike, said Judge Mohamed al-Zind of the Egyptian Judge's Club.
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