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World’s workers rally on May Day
Updated On: 02 May, 2023 07:49 AM IST | Seoul | Agencies
Celebrations were forced indoors in Pakistan and tinged with political tensions in Turkey. Russia’s war in Ukraine overshadowed events in Moscow, where May Day celebrations were massive affairs
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Demonstrations on May Day in Seoul, South Korea. Pic/AP
People squeezed by inflation and demanding economic justice took to the streets of cities across Asia and Europe to mark May Day on Monday, in a global outpouring of worker discontent not seen before the COVID pandemic sent the world into lockdowns.
French unions pushed the president to scrap a higher retirement age. South Koreans pleaded for higher wages. Spanish lawyers demanded the right to take days off. Migrant domestic workers in Lebanon marched in a country plunged in economic crisis.
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