Dissatisfaction with the pensioenmaatregelen of the government, it fails to discuss the heavy professions and the growing unrest about the purchasing power lead 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 industrial areas blocked. There are also different manifestations and filterblokkades. The bus and tramverkeer of The Line experience great inconvenience. There were also incidents. So was the façade of the headquarters of the federation of Belgian Enterprises (feb / VBO) with red paint smeared and were activists in Ghent threatened with a weapon.
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 the production and the distribution of the factory of Coca-Cola completely silent. “When the workers were there as well as no werkwilligen,” says ABVV secretary Yvan The Young. Also at 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.” the
In Oost-Vlaanderen, there are actions “in a negentigtal companies”, says Marc Staelens of FGTB-metal. “Are there forty completely flat.” The most important of these are Volvo Cars , Volvo Trucks, Volvo-supplier Tower Automotive, Honda and Bekaert Aalter. Arcelor Mittal is not completely flat, because there are on strike days traditionally people requisitioned.
