Opel workers stay out
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Employees at General Motors&#39; Opel plant in Bochum, Germany, refused to resume work yesterday, extending a stoppage that began last Thursday in protest at the carmaker&#39;s plan to cut jobs, a union official said.
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HANOVER - About 4,000 Volkswagen workers stayed off the job for about an hour Friday to press demands for higher wages that remained unresolved after a fifth round of talks between their union and management at Europe&#39;s largest car maker.
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Work resumed at the Bochum factory of German car maker Opel this afternoon after workers voted to return to their posts following six days of stoppages to protest plans by Opel's US parent, General Motors, to slash 12,000 jobs in Europe.
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Staff at three VW factories start a series of warning strikes, as the carmaker continues talks over cost-cutting plans.
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WOLFSBURG, Germany : 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
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Unions at Volkswagen have rejected an offer to freeze management pay as a "distraction tactic" to lure them into an austerity drive.
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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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Volkswagen management has offered to freeze its own pay for two years in a bid to gain workers' support for an austerity drive, but union mediators dismissed the move as a "distraction tactic." The overall ...
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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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During much of Germany&#39;s postwar economic boom, as prosperity mounted and car sales multiplied, workers at the Opel automobile factory here
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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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By Hugh Williamson in Berlin and Richard Milne in RÃ¼sselsheim. The mood at Opel&#39;s RÃ¼ssel-heim factory near Frankfurt was as chilly yesterday as the weather.
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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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RUESSELSHEIM - Germany&#39;s Opel car factory at Ruesselsheim resumed production Monday after work had been disrupted by a wildcat strike at another plant.
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German carmaker Adam Opel AG told a group representing workers that it wanted to cut wages and benefits and change working hour arrangements, employee representatives said Wednesday.
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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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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.