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On 15 November 2005 social workers in Tahiti went on strike demanding an additional 51 social work jobs be created. The strikers complained that they had caseloads twice the size of their colleagues in France, the colonial power, and they had insufficient resources to help with societal problems like violence and substance abuse amongst the population of mostly Mā’ohi Indigenous people. The workers then began a sit-in outside the presidential palace. It is unclear how the dispute concluded.
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