Thousands protest Volkswagen layoffs in Brussels
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Thousands of people demonstrated in the Belgian capital in a show of solidarity with local Volkswagen employees threatened by massive layoffs.
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Volkswagen demanded a two-year wage freeze for the 170,000-strong workforce at Europe&#39;s biggest car maker yesterday, provoking union warnings of imminent conflict at key pay and conditions negotiations.
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HANOVER, Germany - Several thousand Volkswagen AG workers took to the streets Tuesday to press their demand for wage increases and pay guarantees as the automaker prepared to resume pay negotiations with Germany&#39;s biggest industrial union.
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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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BRUSSELS, Nov 10 (IPS) - Trade unions are coming together to protest EU  proposals on liberalising services in the internal market.
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Thousands of European activists flocked to London to defend the rights of workers and minorities as well as promote efforts to protect the environment and protest against the war in Iraq.
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Thousands of embittered car workers rallied across Europe against mass job cuts planned by General Motors, the world&#39;s biggest automaker, as labor unrest disrupted output at more GM plants Tuesday.
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BOCHUM, Germany Thousands of General Motors employees at its European factories are staging protests to fight what they call &quot;bad management.
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Berlin -- Police said 15,000 demonstrators brought protests against benefit cuts to the German capital yesterday, marching to the headquarters of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s Social Democrats in central Berlin.
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Hundreds of thousands of French people took part in demonstrations across the country to protest against government plans to reform the 35-hour work week.
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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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At least 15,000 demonstrators marched through Brussels on Saturday in protest at planned job cuts at the Belgian factory of German car maker Volkswagen
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Some 20,000 Belgians demonstrated in Brussels Saturday against the erosion of their spending power as the country's months-old political crisis begins to hit people's pockets.
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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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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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Thousands yesterday responded to a call from several unions to join a rally organised by the General Workers' Union to protest against the government's plan to cut the number of public holidays.
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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.