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Added on the 24/08/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Members of the United Auto Workers' (UAW) union picket and hold signs outside a Ford assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan, on the first day of a historic strike that is ordering simultaneous stoppages at Detroit's "Big Three" for the first time. The dramatic walkout -- marked outside a Detroit-area Ford plant with rowdy honking and cheers at the arrival of the United Auto Workers' leader -- came after a last-minute push by General Motors, Ford and Stellantis failed to produce an agreement before a contract's expiration. IMAGES
At Nuremberg main station, about 50 railway workers from the union EVG are demonstrating, wearing yellow vests. All main railway lines in Germany are disrupted due to a strike by rail workers to press their claim in wage negotiations, operator Deutsche Bahn says. IMAGES
Hundreds of Union workers gather in Buenos Aires ahead of a march to mark International Workers' Day. IMAGES
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Minister of Racial Equality Anielle Franco hold an event to announce her political affiliation with the Workers Party (PT) in the Lapa neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. IMAGES
Arnaud Rousseau, President of the FNSEA, France's top farmers' union, welcomes Marc Fesneau, the French Agriculture Minister, to the 78th FNSEA Congress in Dunkirk, northern France, at a time when the beginning of the year has been marked by a vast movement of anger in the farming world. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).