Opel car workers remain on unofficial strike
Angry workers at an Opel car plant in Germany remained on unofficial strike today, continuing their protest against plans by parent company General Motors for thousands of job cuts and defying calls from union leaders and the government to return to work.
Employee representatives at the plant in Bochum, where workers stopped production on Thursday, had demanded assurances that there will be no compulsory layoffs as a condition for today’s early shift resuming work. Worker representative Franco Biagiotti said they were sticking to that demand.
