SANTIAGO Black Chris Conley Jersey , July 11 (Xinhua) -- Chile's major labor union on Thursday organized a 24-hour nationwide strike, demanding better working conditions and tax reform.
Earlier in the day, protesters erected barricades along certain thoroughfares in the capital of Santiago, blocking morning traffic and cutting roads to state-run mines. Public sectors, including healthcare and copper mining, came to a standstill.
By midday Black Mitch Morse Jersey , labor unions have massed along the main avenues of major Chilean cities. Thursday's protest was one of the largest in years in the Andean country.
The Central Union of Workers (CUT) organized the strike pressing for a rise in the minimum wage, reforms in the labor law as well as pension plan, and increased taxation of major companies to finance public services, such as education and healthcare.
Barbara Figueroa, president of the CUT, said that some 200 Black Chris Jones Jersey ,000 people took to the streets in Santiago, and another 300,000 marched in cities around the country, including workers and students.
"Today we say enough, stop the abuse, stop the inequality Black Kareem Hunt Jersey , we are standing up to fight for our demands in conjunction with other sectors of the society," Figueroa told reporters after the protests.
However, the Chilean government downplayed the protests, saying that only a small part of workers have participated. Santiago city officials estimated that the number of protesters in the Chilean capital was about 30,000.
Interior Minister Andres Chadwick said only 5.8 percent of public-sector workers took part in the strike.
"Public services worked well throughout the country and no disruptions have occurred in public administration," Chadwick said.
BERLIN Black Tanoh Kpassagnon Jersey , Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- The German Social Democrats (SPD) party has slightly narrowed the electoral gap to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) one month before national elections, a Stern RTL Wahltrend opinion survey published on Wednesday showed.
The finding comes on the same day as a separate survey by the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung suggests that nearly half of Germans have not yet decided for whom to cast their ballots.
The SPD measured its highest level of support in three months at 24 percent (plus one percentage point) in the most recent Stern RTL Wahltrend survey conducted regularly by the opinion research institute Forsa. The CDUCSU were down by one percentage point, receiving the political endorsement of 38 percent of respondents.
The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was able to sustain its level of support during the election campaign, increasing its voter share by one percentage point to a total of nine percent. The AfD was tied in third place with the Left party (Linke), which was also supported by nine percent (no change) of those polled.
The Free Democratic Party (FDP) held steady at eight percent while the Green party (Gruene) fell by one percentage point to seven percent.
In the category of whom respondents would elect directly as chancellor, Angela Merkel (CDU) continued to enjoy a comfortable lead over her rival. 50 percent (minus one percentage point) of those polled supported the incumbent German leader Black Patrick Mahomes II Jersey , compared to 23 percent (plus one percentage point) support for SPD leader and former president of the European Parliament Martin Schulz.
Merkel is seeking her fourth term as chancellor after having already held the office for eleven years. She has widely been predicted to emerge victorious for parliamentary elections scheduled for September 24.
A separate poll published in the Frankfurter Allgemein Zeitung on Wednesday raised the possibility of an unexpected upset in her campaign given the high remaining share of undecided voters.
The survey conducted by the Allensbach opinion research institute found that 46 percent of respondents still did not know whom to vote for roughly a month before the election. The figure marked the highest share of undecided voters recorded so shortly before an election in 20 years.
At the same time, the Allensbach researchers also noted that 45 percent of the respondents, more than ever since German re-unification, thought the election was already decided.
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TIANJIN, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Airbus Wednesday inaugurated its A330 Completion and Delivery Centre (CDC) in Tianjin, north China, marking the first such center for its wide-body aircraft outside Europe.
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"The inauguration of our A330 CDC in Tianjin, together with the first of many deliveries, marks a milestone for Airbus' international footprint and underlines the strong spirit of cooperation with our Chinese partners," said Fabrice Bregier, Airbus COO and president of Commercial Aircraft.
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Airbus Wednesday also delivered its first A330 jointly completed by European and Chinese staff to Tianjin Airlines. This aircraft was completed in Toulouse, France.
The A330 CDC will employ more than 250 people and will be able to deliver two aircraft per month by early 2019, according to Airbus.