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Strike Culture: When Germans strike - it's a well organised affair

British trade unions are renowned for being confrontational. The French create nation-wide chaos with their general strikes. When Germans strike, it's a quieter affair - well-organised and traditionally followed by coffee and cake at trade union headquarters. Today more Germans than ever before are taking to the streets - most recently civil servants, and national railway and steel industry

DW-World | March 11, 2008Watch more videos from DW-World

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