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Thousands of travelers across Germany found themselves stranded on Tuesday when ground staff walked off the job at seven of the country’s biggest airports. The one-day strike by the Ver.di labor ...
Millions of travelers across Germany were affected by strikes again on Thursday after two unions called for two-day walkouts over wages and work conditions. Around 80% of all long-distance trains ...
IG Metall said the walkouts were the first large-scale strikes Volkswagen had faced since 2018, when 50,000 workers idled plants over pay. Although the latest work stoppages will last only a few ...
Volkswagen announced sweeping changes to its German operations, including more than 35,000 future job cuts and capacity reductions in a last-gasp deal between Europe's top carmaker and unions on ...
1980 Berlin S-Bahn strike; 1980 West German journalists strike, by journalists in West Germany demanding a 40-hour work week. [10] 1984 West Germany metalworkers' strike, 7-week strike by metalworkers in West Germany, represented by IG Metall, calling for the introduction of a 35-hour work week. [11] [12]
The 2023 German public transport strike was a nationwide labor strike that occurred in March 2023 in Germany. The strike was organized by Ver.di and EVG, two major transport unions, who demanded a 10.5% pay increase for their members to offset rising food and energy costs.
The company scrapped a 30-year-old labor agreement in September, which opened the way for layoffs, while it has also proposed closing factories in Germany for the first time in its 87-year history.
Armed conflicts and attacks. Russian invasion of Ukraine. Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine strikes targets at the Russian regions of Bryansk and Saratov as well as the Republic of Tatarstan with more than 200 drones and five ATACMS ballistic missiles, damaging at least one factory and a refinery.