LABOR
<i> Times Staff and Wire Reports</i>
French Labor Unions Dig In Over State Monopolies: Workers are preparing mass strikes for today and Wednesday to protest plans to dismantle state-owned monopolies such as France Telecom. They fear that liberalization and privatization of telecommunications, postal and rail services will threaten thousands of jobs. The union action is part of a dispute being fought out on the streets after Jacques Chirac won the May 7 presidential election.
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