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GERMANY - TRANSPORT - STRIKE - ECONOMY - LABOUR - RAIL - UNION - DEUTSCHE BAHN
A suburban S-Bahn train, operated by national railway operator Deutsche Bahn (DB), pulls into a station in downtown Berlin on November 5, 2014 on the start of German train drivers' longest strike in 20 years. The GDL train drivers' union called the strike -- the sixth walkout since September -- starting with freight services on November 5, 2014 afternoon and spreading to passenger services on November 6. The stoppage is scheduled to last until early Monday next week, meaning it will hit the weekend celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, where as many as two million visitors were expected to travel to the German capital.
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