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Mar 17, 2005
Cricket, Crumpets, and a Strike
British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Labour Party boasts that one of its many accomplishments is that 200,000 more workers are now in recognized trade unions than were in the past — yet the 630 non-diplomatic employees at British embassies and consulates in the United States may soon be denied that very right. In the wake of cutbacks in sick leave and other such benefits in January, those employees voted to join the Silver Spring-based International…