Dissatisfaction with the pensioenmaatregelen of the government, it fails to discuss the heavy professions and the growing unrest about the purchasing power will today to a “strike” during the national day of action organised by the trade unions. In more than 260 metal – and textile companies is discontinued in Walloon-Brabant are several industrial areas blocked. The bus and tramverkeer of The Line, are also great inconvenience.

There is currently especially actiegevoerd in the industrial sectors, such as the power supply-, metal -, and textile mills . “In more than 260 metal – and textile companies is discontinued,” says William Of Erdeghem, chairman of ACV Metea. “In many other hundreds of companies on a other way actiegevoerd. Read petitions, works councils, contacts with employers, manifestations, etc.”

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In Wilrijk in Antwerp is both production and distribution to the factory of Coca-Cola completely silent. “When the workers were there as well as no werkwilligen,” says ABVV secretary Yvan The Young. Also koekjesproducent LU in Herentals are the production lines completely silent. According to Young, other large food companies in the region, equally flat. “We get even of small businesses, where no deputy is, the question of employees how they can strike.”