Belgium
Wildcat strikes continue on Belgian railways
Train drivers in Belgium are due to be returning to work following a wildcat strike yesterday which prompted transport minister André Antoine to demand they be sacked.
Drivers at the Onoz depot on the Namur-Luxembourg line walked out at 4am Monday 12 March in protest against a new annual leave system.
Dave, Victor, 1845-1922
Biography of a Belgian radical, imprisoned in Germany and militant within the proofreaders' union.
Victor Dave
Born Jambes, Belguim 1845. Died Paris, France 1922
Victor Dave was born in Jambes, near Namur in Belgium on February 25th, 1845. Son of a senior judge (President of the Cour des Comptes Belge) he completed his higher education at the Faculty of Letters in Liège and the Free University in Brussels.
VW workers approve longer hours despite wildcat strikes
Workers at Volkswagen AG's Belgian plant on Tuesday approved a restructuring plan to work longer hours without extra pay in order to keep their jobs.
Previously the plan had met with wildcat strikes and demonstrations occured against closure (see picture, above).
Businessweek.com reported the acceptance of the deal "as a necessary move to keep the slimmed-down factory open and guarantee employment."
Belgium: Strikes across rail network
Last Thursday a wildcat strike by train drivers at the Belgian station of Termonde lead to the cancellation of many services, a spokesman for the railway claimed not to know what had triggered the unofficial action.
A strike by conductors in Wallonia on Monday paralysed most of the rail services in the south of the country. The conductors were protesting at unsafe working conditions after three conductors were assaulted in the space of a few days.
Brussels: Volkswagen strike enters third week
Workers at the Volkswagen plant in Brussels are on strike for a third week after the company announced upto 4,000 job losses there.
Workers have blockaded the factory, and up to 25,000 people have been involved in protest marches
4,000 Job losses at VW plant in Forest
The VW factory in Forest, near Brussels, is facing 4,000 job losses after the company decided to transfer the assembly line to German plants.
Of the 4,000 facing redundancy only 400 will be able to take early retirement, leaving the rest of the employees stranded in an area already crippled by production. Union bosses have estimated a further 6,000 job losses with local suppliers.
Short report from DHL workers demonstration in Brussels, 2004
A short report from a DHL workers demonstration in Brussels, with information about developments and struggles at DHL and at Brussels airport.
Successful strike at Opel-GM in Antwerp
Belgian car workers won a short strike to demand less work and more workers employed at their plant in Antwerp.
Particularly against the background of the GM management's threat of global mass redundancies this victory is quite exceptional.
On 31 March the majority of the day-shift decided to lay down tools in order to protest against the work load and to demand additional workers be employed.
Tanrez, Ernest 'Ernestan', 1898-1954
A short biography of Ernest Tanrez, a Belgian anarchist who was imprisoned by the Gestapo during World War II.
Ernest Tanrez
Aka Ernestan, born 1898 - Belgium, died 1954 - Belgium
Lazarevitch, Nicholas, 1895-1975
A short biography of Russo-Belgian anarchist, co-writer of The Platform and husband of Ida Mett, Nicholas Lazarevitch.
Born in Belgium 17 August 1895 near Liege, Nicholas Lazarevitch was the son of Russian revolutionary émigrés. After working in a number of factories and mines in French-speaking Belgium he became an anarcho-syndicalist shortly before world war one. He worked in the mines of Germany's Ruhr in 1916, but in 1917 escaped to Holland.
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