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Civilian Parisians, sensing freedom for the first time in four years, began to harass the Germans in any way they could. Communist resistance workers seized the opportunity to openly oppose the Germans. They infiltrated the Paris police force, many of whom were frightened by their record of enthusiastic co-operation during the Occupation, they had rounded up French Jews even the Nazis were prepared to leave alone Participation in the police strike starting 15 August was good insurance for their future. The strike, coupled with news that day of more Allied landings off St Tropez, ignited the resentments and hopes of Parisians and, urged on by the communists, an uprising was borne.
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The Slovenian police officers will continue to strike in the night of Monday to Tuesday. The next strike will last 48 hours, thus ending on Wednesday at midnight.
- ↑ "Protesting Gardaí Go Sick in Pay Dispute". RTÉ Archives. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
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Police had planned to demonstrate before, during and after the matches to draw attention to their demand for a pay raise up to 15 percent. The police won a court ruling in Amsterdam on Friday affirming their right to strike.
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The strike by police officers continues as the government refused on Thursday to confirm an agreement with the Police Trade Union, which it initialled on Wednesday and which takes into account the majority of the union's demands. The demands included salaries of police officers to increase compared to other public sector employees. The union has presented studies showing that Slovenian police officers deserved a salary that would amount to the average of police pay in the EU.
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A temporary truce in the six-day 'sick call' strike by police was in effect today after policeman agreed to return to work and the city promised it would lift the suspensions of more than 190 officers.
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As 20,000 city patrolmen refused to man their posts for a fourth day, negotiators intensified efforts Sunday to settle the walkout, spurred by a warning from the commissioner that his skeleton police force can keep going for only a few more days.
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Most of the city's 1,935 policemen walked off the job Monday after the board of supervisors approved a 6.5 per cent pay raise—half of what police had demanded. The strike left the city short of protection, but no major upswing in crime was reported.
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The mayor of this eastern U.S. city—one of three hit by municipal strikes yesterday—called striking policeman 'hoodlums' yesterday and pleaded for National Guard protection. [...] The wildcat strike by 2,000 Cleveland police officers and supervisory personnel left only a handful of high-ranking police officials to guard the city of 800,000. Other city workers, with the exception of firemen, honored police picket lines, crippling city services. The strike had no immediate effect on the city, except for flocks of prostitutes who openly flaunted their wares in the muggy summer weather...
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Between 650 and 1,000 of the city's 1,500 police officers had been on strike, many since Thursday night.
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Birmingham police officers struck last night, and the rest of the city's 4,000 employees were expected to join them this morning in a dispute about health insurance.
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Four of the striking unions—Local 7 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees; the Toledo Police Patrolmen's Association; Fire Fighters Local 92; and Teamsters Local 20—represent about 750 police, 600 firefighters and more than 2,000 non-uniformed employees.
- ↑ "Police strike: Crooks have field day in city patrolled by a few 'old men'". The Miami News. 8 January 1980. p. 10A. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
The 100 officers on the force walked off the job late last Wednesday in a dispute that centered as much on a proposed merit system as on financial issues.
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He said when the strike was declared that statements by Nabors about the shootings of the two officers early Wednesday were 'the straw that broke the camel's back' and prompted the wildcat strike. In a television interview Wednesday night, Nabors said the shooting of the two officers might have been caused by the suspect's fear of police. By 9 p.m., an hour after the strike was declared, all seven district police stations were closed, the doors were locked, and citizens were not being admitted.
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After calling a strike for higher wages, most of Corona's 40-man police force was believed to be hiding out in Arizona to avoid being cited in violation of state laws barring walkouts by public employees, city officials said.
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Federal troops were sent Friday to patrol Salvador and other Bahia state cities as violence has escalated in the wake of a strike by police and state military troops.
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Police in the Brazilian state of Alagoas have gone on strike, in a continuing national crisis over pay. The strike began on Wednesday, just a day after police in the neighbouring state of Bahia ended a similar 12-day campaign after accepting a 21% pay offer.
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There have been major delays at airports across Brazil after more than 8,000 federal police officers began an indefinite strike for higher pay.
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Some 3,500 soldiers clashed with Brazilian police, who have been on strike outside the assembly in the state capital of Salvador since last week, BBC News reported. The soldiers surrounded the building and fired rubber bullets and charged the crowd of about 4,000 police and their families, who are camped out in the legislative building, the Associated Press reported. The government told the BBC that about one third of Bahia's 30,000 state police officers are involved in the strike. Police in the state of Bahia declared a strike last Tuesday to demand higher wages and better working conditions, CNN International reported. Since then, 93 people have been killed, double the number in the same period last year, according to CNN. There have also been multiple reports of looting, according to the AP.
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Despite the presence of the National Force and the Army, the State had another violent day: one shot hit a bus, there was a shootout in the neighborhood of Santa Rita and, in Serra, a condominium was invaded. Since Friday, relatives of police officers have been demonstrating in front of Military Police precincts.
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Virtually all stores of the International Settlement were closed early today in fear of robberies as 3000 Chinese policemen struck for higher wages and larger rice allowances. Except for a small body of foreign soldiers, volunteer police, and 250 White Russians, the Settlement was without protection.
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Tear-gas was used to disperse a procession of about 100 policemen on a hunger strike in Old Delhi to-day. Eighty-six policemen were arrested after British troops, with fixed bayonets, had cordoned off the procession. They have been charged with inciting other policemen to mutiny. The striking policemen are demanding increased wages and allowances. About 2000 are now involved.
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A number of people has been killed in demonstrations in Alexandria, where the entire police force of 3000 officers and men is now on strike for increased pay.
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NIGERIAN police have gone on strike for the first time for better pay and conditions.
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The causes of the sudden upsurge of police militancy in the last two decades lie in the changing conditions of policing. In large measure, today's police are moved to collective action by the realization that the declining legitimacy of the state subjects them to the explicit hostility of large segments of the population. Police work has become harder. As the degree of race and class conflict intensifies, the police assume a more demanding role both in repressing strikes and demonstrations and in attempting to contain the escalating level of crime. They are attacked, on the one hand, by progressive groups demanding the curtailment of their coercive power and, on the other hand, by reactionary elements calling for law and order and increased police efficiency. I