World IN BRIEF : FRANCE : Premier, Unions Fail to End Strike
From Times Wire Reports
French Prime Minister Alain Juppe failed to end a crippling, 18-day-old public-sector strike, as trade unions emerged from talks with him defiant over his plans to overhaul the debt-burdened welfare system. Public transport remained at a standstill, with all trains and Paris subway and bus service halted by the strike, causing huge rush-hour traffic jams around the capital. Twenty percent of teachers, 4% of postal workers and many electricity and telephone workers also remained on strike.
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