French port union calls for weekly strikes France's port union, part of the Conf'd'ration g'n'rale du travail (CGT federation), on Thursday called for weekly 24-hour

strikes to protest government plans to privatize seven of the nine state-run ports, _Reuters_ reports.    "The government is taking the deliberate risk to hand over especially

profitable port terminals to private operators and, above all, foreigners," a union spokesman is quoted as saying.    The report said about 2,000 employees are affected by the

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