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Court rejects Lufthansa bid to block strike

By Washington Examiner
Published October 21, 2014 9:57am ET
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Court rejects Lufthansa bid to block strike
A Lufthansa airplane arrives at the airport in Munich, southern Germany, Monday Oct. 20, 2014. A planned strike by pilots at Lufthansa has been expanded to include a one-day walkout Tuesday at the German airline's long-haul fleet. The Vereinigung Cockpit union already had announced a 35-hour strike at Lufthansa's short-haul fleet starting mid-Monday, the latest in a string of walkouts over retirement benefits. It expanded that to target long-haul services from 6 a.m. (0400 GMT) to midnight (2200 GMT) Tuesday. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) | Matthias Schrader

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has rejected a bid by Lufthansa to force a union representing the company’s pilots to call off a strike, the latest in a string of walkouts over retirement benefits.

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