U.K.
There was widespread support for a two-day strike in the Department for Work and Pensions on 26 and 27 January. The strike was in protest at 15,000 job cuts across the Department and plans for a further 15,000 to be cut by 2008. The PCS union argues that services have already been affected and will only deteriorate further.
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The ADEDY civil service confederation is calling for work stoppages on 1 August and a 24-hour strike on 2 August in protest at plans to cut public sector jobs and close schools and hospitals. There will also be a demonstration outside the Ministry of Finance on 1 August and outside the Ministry of Administrative Reform on the 2nd. Read more at > ADEDY (GR)
Unions at the Veolia water company have announced strike action in protest at the company's latest plans for restructuring, the fourth in three years. The unions are angry that a further 572 jobs are due to go by 2019 after 2000 have already been cut since 2014. They are particularly concerned that this time the company has not ruled out compulsory redundancies which the unions say would be the first for the sector. The unions say the cuts aren't justified in terms of the company's economic performance and they want the company to withdraw the threat of compulsory redundancies and begin a
The FNME-CGT, FO-FNEM and CFTC unions in the energy sector have called for two days of strike action on 21-22 January to protest at plans by the SNET energy company, owned by the Germany energy multinational EON, to close coal-fired power stations and cut 535 jobs by 2015. The unions want commitments to prolong the life of some power stations and to investigate the conversion of others while also confirming investment in new biomass initiatives.
