Venezuela Celebrates May Day with New Minimum Wage

[Catherina]

5. It's disturbing. Workers in Europe can't even celebrate, they protest against austerity, slave labor

Our situation is criminal.

May Day protests against austerity, 'slave labour'


Date: May 02 2013

Tens of thousands of angry protesters staged May Day rallies in several countries of the crisis-wracked eurozone Wednesday, as fury erupted at demonstrations in Bangladesh after a deadly building collapse.

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"This austerity is ruining and killing us," read one banner in Madrid, blasting the unpopular German-led policy of squeezing budgets in response to the eurozone's three-year debt crisis as unemployment hit 27 percent of Spain's working population.

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Pope Francis meanwhile used a private mass in his residence to mark May Day, urging political leaders to fight unemployment in a sweeping critique of "selfish profit" that he said "goes against God".

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In Dhaka, protesters holding red banners and flags chanted "Hang the Killers, Hang the Factory Owners" after the devastating caving in of the garment factory, as rescuers warned the final toll could surpass 500.

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Thousands marched in Portugal, with anger directed against the so-called Troika - the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund - that has imposed strict austerity measures in return for bailouts worth billions of euros.

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http://www.smh.com.au/business/may-day-protests-against-austerity-slave-labour-20130502-2iu4z.html?skin=text-only