Opel workers stage work stoppages in protest against job cuts
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Production was halted at the Bochum factory of troubled German car maker Opel as workers laid down tools for the second day in a row in protest against plans by the group's US parent, General Motors, to axe thousands of jobs and possibly even close a plant after 2006.
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Workers at Germany&#39;s automobile giant Volkswagen (VW) have staged warning strikes in the on-going wage dispute with the management.
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Around 4,000 workers at three factories of German car giant Volkswagen halted production for about an hour overnight in the first official warning strikes aimed at putting pressure on management in the deadlocked wage talks, unions said.
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Volkswagen AG workers demonstrated outside three factories during the latest round of talks between Europe&#39;s biggest carmaker and the union representing the company&#39;s German employees.
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Workers at Opel auto plants in Bochum walked out Thursday as soon as the parent company, General Motors, announced it was cutting 10,000 jobs in Germany.
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BOCHUM, Germany - Thousands of employees at General Motors Corp.&#39;s European factories staged protests yesterday against the automaker&#39;s plan to slash 12,000 jobs across the continent, while a shortage of parts from a striking German plant forced two other
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Volkswagen AG workers staged a new round of brief stoppages early Monday, keeping up pressure on the automaker ahead of wage talks in which the company is sticking to a demand for a two-year pay freeze.
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FRANKFURT : Labour conflict looks set to boil over in the German automobile sector in the coming weeks as car makers such as Volkswagen and Opel seek to impose rigorous belt-tightening measures as an answer to chronically weak demand.
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Workers at the Opel plant in Bochum, Germany enter their sixth day of &quot;wildcat&quot; strike action in response to planned job cuts by US parent company General Motors (GM).
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Volkswagen workers in Braunschweig were among 15,000 who yesterday staged token stoppages across Germany over the group&#39;s demands for cuts in labour costs, including a two-year pay freeze.
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Hundreds of auto workers demonstrated outside Ford Motor Co.'s  corporate headquarters on Friday to protest against its plans to build a new line of mid-size passenger cars in Mexico instead of the United States.
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Staff at  General Motors are to hold protests across Europe at the company's plans to cut 12,000 jobs.
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A strike at a General Motors Corp. plant in Germany began to squeeze the company's European production yesterday as a lack of parts halted two other factories, while thousands of workers rallied against GM's plan to cut up to 12,000 jobs across the continent.
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Thousands of demonstrators brought protests against benefit cuts to the German capital yesterday, but the Government insisted it would make no further change to measures it sees as key to a more competitive economy.
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The management and labor representatives of the car producer Opel began talks Monday on thecontroversial massive layoffs faced by its workers.
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More than 90,000 people, according to organisers, hit the streets of several German cities Monday to protest looming cuts in unemployment benefits, continuing a series of weekly protests against government reforms.
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Volkswagen workers staged a new round of brief stoppages early Monday, keeping up pressure on the automaker ahead of wage talks in which the company is sticking to a demand for a two-year pay freeze.