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Striking workers again closed down the Eiffel Tower on Wednesday, the third day running that the landmark expected to be at the heart of celebrations for the Paris Olympics has been off-limits to visitors. One of the strikers' representatives, Denis Vavassori of the CGT union, has previously warned that their protest action "could go on for several days, even weeks.” Striking employees are demanding a salary increase proportionate to revenue from ticket sales.

A strike over the management of the Eiffel Tower shut the Parisian landmark Monday. The tower also could remain shut Tuesday.

"Kroger and ACI have decided that collusion is more profitable than competition,” said Colorado's attorney general

Unite Here Local 11 has reached deals with 35 out of some 60 properties in Los Angeles and Orange counties initially targeted by intermittent walkouts in July.

More than 200 reporters, photographers and other staffers with the Chicago Tribune and six other newsrooms around the nation began a 24-hour strike Thursday to protest years of “slow-walked” contract negotiations and to demand fair wages. The strike, which includes 76 members of the Chicago Tribune reporting staff, photographers and some editors, began at 5 a.m., said Caroline Kubzansky, a member of the Chicago Tribune Guild who is a general assignment reporter with the newspaper. The striking workers are employees of Alden Global Capital, a New York hedge fund that has been bu...