AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Elementary schools stayed closed across the Netherlands on Tuesday, as thousands of teachers went on strike for the second time in two months to demand higher pay and better working conditions.
The previous one-day strike was in October, when eleventh-hour funding promises by the government failed to avert the largest work stoppage by Dutch primary school teachers since the 1980s.
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