European Workers Issues
Britain: RMT Tube workers face union busting and organised scabbing by drivers’ union ASLEF
By Paul Mitchell, June 12, 2009
Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union workers yesterday ended a two-day strike on the London Underground against plans by the company and its parent body Transport for London to cut over 1,000 jobs...
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June 12, 2009
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London Underground workers strike against assault on jobs and wages
By Socialist Equality Party (Britain), June 10, 2009
The two day strike on the London Underground rail network represents a determined stand by Tube workers against the frontal assault being waged on their jobs, wages and conditions.
Italy: Fiat workers protest against management and their union leadership
By Marianne Arens, May 21, 2009
Fiat workers from all over Italy demonstrated last Saturday at the Fiat company headquarters in Lingotto. At the head of the march were the workforces of two Fiat factories facing closure.
France: Caterpillar workers in revolt against the unions
By Antoine Lerougetel, April 28, 2009
Workers at Caterpillar and Continental plants in France fighting to defend their jobs revolted last week against sackings negotiated by the trade unions with the employers and the state.
French and German Continental workers protest against plant closures
By our reporting team, April 25, 2009
A large delegation of workers from the French Continental Tire Manufacturing plant traveled to the city of Hanover Thursday for a joint protest with German workers against plant closures and massive r...
UK Visteon workers speak on occupation
April 18, 2009
WSWS reporters spoke to laid off workers who have occupied a parts factory in the UK that supplies Ford Motor Company.
Germany: ThyssenKrupp workers demonstrate against job losses and wage cuts
By Sybille Fuchs, April 11, 2009
More than 10,000 ThyssenKrupp workers from throughout Germany held a demonstration on Monday April 6 in Duisburg, to protest against job losses and wage cuts.
Britain: RMT rail union launches nationalist platform for European elections
By Julie Hyland, April 7, 2009
The No2EU platform of populist nationalism is the outcome of the protracted degeneration of the labour and trade union bureaucracy and its incorporation into the capitalist nation state.
Workers occupy car parts factories in England and Northern Ireland
By Steve James, April 4, 2009
Hundreds of workers at car parts maker Visteon have launched occupations and sit-in protests at the company’s sites in Belfast, Enfield and Basildon.
Ireland: Taxi strike, student protests after unions call off national strike
By Robert Stevens, March 31, 2009
Only a 24-hour work stoppage by Dublin taxi drivers and a lecture boycott by students at University College Dublin went ahead after the Irish Congress of Trade Unions called off the national strike sc...
Ireland: Trade unions call off March 30 national strike
By Socialist Equality Party (Britain), March 28, 2009
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has called off its planned one-day national strike scheduled for March 30.
