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France Telecom/Orange unions claim that 40 percent of the company's 108,000 employees stayed home on 31 May in a one-day strike in a number of cities to protest against the group's job cut plan. Les Echos writes that management put the figure at 25 percent. The last industrial action, in December 2006, was supported by 30 percent of staff. France Telecom is cutting 22,000 ...

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