German unions urge Nokia boycott over plant closure
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German unions on Thursday called for a  consumer boycott of Nokia  products to protest  against the cellphone maker's plans to close a German plant.
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2,300 layoffs Nokia is shut down its Bochum plant in Germany by mid 2008. The closure will affect at least 2,300 Nokia employees, the company said today.â¦
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4,000 Volkswagen employees yesterday staged strikes against plans by the car manufacturer to freeze wages for two years. Volkswagen says it needs to cut costs because of competition from low-cost rivals, and
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Unions for thousands workers in northern Quebec have urged a boycott of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  over its plans to close a store that last year became North America's first unionized Wal-Mart.
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Nokia Corp., the world's largest mobile phone maker, plans to shut down its Florida phone refurbishing plant by September 2005 and cut 400 jobs.
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ROSTOCK, Germany  - Tens of thousands of anti-globalization protesters converge on the Baltic port of Rostock on Saturday to voice their distaste for the policies of the world's leading industrial countries.
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Nokia Corp., the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said Tuesday it plans to lay off "a few hundred" research and development workers globally including up to 250 in Finland in a move to cut R&amp;D costs.
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Some 4,000 workers at three Volkswagen AG plants in Germany held brief work stoppages early Friday as the union launched a promised campaign of warning strikes to underline their resistance a company demand for ...
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Upset over the loss of 2,300 jobs in Germany, 15,000 local residents have staged a street demonstration over Nokia's plans to shut down its factory there. Now German leaders are considering taking back a huge Nokia subsidy.
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Nokia , the world's top cellphone maker, said on Tuesday it plans to close its plant in Bochum, Germany, by mid-2008 and may cut up to 2,300 staff as it moves production to lower-cost regions.
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Nearly 40,000 people in Germany, backed by expressions of support elsewhere in Europe, took to the streets to protest plans by US auto giant General Motors to axe about one-fifth of its European workforce and possibly even close a plant.
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Deutsche Telekom management urged unions to return to the negotiating table on Friday to settle the industrial action against lower pay and longer working hours within the telecom giant&#39;s services division.
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FRANKFURT : Hundreds of workers at German auto maker Volkswagen&#39;s Hanover plant walked off the job, as management and union representatives readied to resume deadlocked wage and job talks.
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After a public outcry over the collapse of BenQ's German mobile telephone making operations, electronics giant Siemens has sought to repair its reputation by cancelling a generous pay-rise for top managers and using the money saved to help BenQ's German employees instead.
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Hyundai and Kia automotive plants shut down as their workers joined tens of thousands of other labourers in a strike against proposed new labor legislation, company officials said.
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Finnish phone maker Nokia Corp. said Tuesday it will close a manufacturing plant and automotive supply unit in Bochum, Germany, and was in talks to sell a research and development unit in Bochum to Sasken Technologies.
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Nokia Corp., the world's largest mobile phone maker, took legal action earlier this week against two European manufacturers for allegedly infringing on technology patents and registered designs.