This is because the law now guarantees minimum service on public transport and in schools on strike days, and workers who down tools are no longer paid.

因为如今法国已立法保证公共交通、学校在罢工期间正常运作——即便是最低限度的运作，还规定对罢工工人停发薪水。

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This week,it was the Toyota workers who laid down tools and demanded higher pay.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

What these people have to work with are the tools that have been passed down to them, The poverty of the people Frost writes about is important.

这些人需要用一代代传下来,的工具或者自己制造的工具，弗罗斯特所写的这些人的贫穷非常重要。

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He told the men to put down their guns and take up digging tools.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

The solar cell manufacturing industry for years made do with hand-me-down tools from the computer chip industry.

FORBES: Magazine Article

And a union call to down tools is invariably answered by far more than just the union's paid-up members.

ECONOMIST: The other bosses in France

Such prospects are unpopular in Germany, where the unions have said workers will lay down tools on Thursday to protest GM's decision.

BBC: What next for GM in Europe?