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Thousands protest Spain’s new labor reforms

Associated Press

  February 20, 2012

Hundreds of thousands of protesters were marching throughout Spain yesterday in the first large-scale show of anger over new labor reforms that make it easier for companies to fire workers and pull out of collective bargaining agreements. The country’s main trade unions organized marches in 57 cities, beginning midmorning in Cordoba in the south and expected to end with evening marches in Toledo and Valencia, with a very large demonstration planned in Madrid from midday.

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