German steel workers step up strike, shut down plants
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Some 10,000 German metal workers walked off the job on Thursday as a strike for higher wages gained momentum and shut down several production plants, unions said.
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BOCHUM, Germany  - Workers at a General Motors  plant in Bochum, Germany, swallowed their anger over job cuts  and voted on Wednesday to end a seven-day stoppage that has  disrupted output at three other GM car factories.
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BOCHUM, Germany  - Thousands of employees at General Motors Corp.'s European factories staged protests Tuesday against the automaker's plan to slash 12,000 jobs across the continent, while a shortage of parts from a striking German plant forced two other factories to stop production.
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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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Unions call off a strike at Volkswagen's largest plant in Brazil, after the German firm suspends job cut plans.
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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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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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Germany pledges to fight against  Airbus plants there being disproportionately hit by expected job cuts at the firm.
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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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Workers at a General Motors Corp. plant in Germany decided Wednesday to end their nearly weeklong walkout in protest at thousands of threatened job cuts, a union official said, ending a strike that has forced other factories to a halt.
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A fire at a German nuclear power plant and the temporary shutdown of another has boosted supporters of plans to close the country's atomic energy program, despite concerns that coal- or gas-fired replacements will produce more greenhouse gases.
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German union leaders say more than 12,000 workers have staged warning strikes at three Volkswagen plants, while a sixth round of contract talks was scheduled in Hannover.
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Workers at Swedish retail clothing chain Hennes and Mauritz's French warehouse in Le Bourget, outside Paris, voted to end a three-week-old strike after accepting management's salary hike proposals.
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Workers at a General Motors' plant in Germany vote to end a strike over job cuts which has hit production elsewhere.
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Thousands of employees at General Motorsâ European plants staged protests today against the plan to slash 12,000 jobs across the continent, while a shortage of parts from a striking German plant forced two other factories to stop production.
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Hundreds of workers at an Opel car plant in Germany kept up a protest outside the factory gates Sunday against plans by owner General Motors Corp.
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Workers at an Adam Opel AG plant in Germany whose stoppage in protest at threatened job cuts has forced two other factories to a halt planned to decide Wednesday whether to end their walkout.