Opel workers stage work stoppages in protest against job cuts
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German Economy Minister Wolfgang Clement urged workers at car maker Opel to return to work as angry walkouts were staged for the second day in a row to protest General Motors' plans to slash thousands of jobs in Europe and perhaps even close a plant.
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Workers at an Opel car plant in Germany demanded assurances that there would be no compulsory layoffs as a condition for ending a stoppage prompted by parent company General Motors' announcement of sweeping job cuts.
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Workers at German car maker Opel halted production at a factory in Bochum for a fifth consecutive day yesterday in protest at plans by US parent General Motors (GM) to slash thousands of jobs in Europe.
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General Motors Corp., the world&#39;s biggest carmaker, faced wider production cutbacks in Europe as a six-day protest against job-cut plans spread and a shortage of parts from Germany halted work at a Belgian car plant.
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Nearly 40,000 people in Germany took part in protests over US auto giant General Motors&#39; plans to axe 12,000 jobs, about one-fifth of its European workforce.
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Thousands of workers of German car giant Volkswagen on Wednesday held demonstrations ahead of a crucial round of wage talks. The company&#39;s works council said Wednesday that about
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Order inflow to General Motors' German unit Adam Opel AG has held up despite a production stoppage over planned job cuts that hurt the carmaker's image, Opel CEO Hans Demant said in a magazine interview.
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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 a two-year pay freeze.
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Angry auto workers at an Adam Opel AG plant stayed off the job Monday to protest plans by parent company General Motors Corp.
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About 2,000 workers stayed off the job Friday at a General Motors plant in Germany threatened by job cuts, while the company's European president attempted to reassure employees that the auto giant hadn't fixed how many jobs would go in the country &#151; a prime target in its cost-cutting plan.
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BOCHUM - Workers at the Opel carmaking plant in the city of Bochum voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to end their nearly week-long wildcat strike and were to return almost immediately to work, officials announced.
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Nearly 14,000 employees stopped work as long as two hours to protest the companyâs decision to eliminate 10,000 jobs.
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German and French employees of Airbus demonstrate amid fears of cutbacks at the planemaker.
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Tens of thousands of General Motors workers across Europe were set to stop working on Tuesday in a sign of solidarity with their German colleagues, who face massive job cuts.
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Two German railway unions launched a campaign of limited walkouts Monday in a pay dispute with the national rail operator, causing disruption in parts of the country. via CFRB
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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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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