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- Two trade union leaders sacked by Interclisa
Carrier in Guadalajara
- From La Red Obrera/LabourNet, 30 October 1997. On October
9, 1997, Interclisa Carrier Spain gave redundancy notices to
the General Secretary and the Shop Steward of the Workers
Commissions (CCOO) branch in the factory. It said the
leaflet distributed by the CCOO branch amounted to
“verbal abuse and incitation to indiscipline and
disobedience”.
- Delphi Packard to transfer production out of
Spain
- International Metalworker's Federation, 9 February
2000. IMF Spanish affiliates will strike next week against
the U.S. multinational's restructuring
plan. Restructuring will affect 1,700 workers out of a total
workforce of 3,500. The reason given for this restructuring
plan is that the company is transferring production to
Morocco and Poland, although the plants have no problems of
productivity, profitability or competition.
- Protesters urge Spain to scrap water
plan
- Reuters, 13 March 2001. More than 100,000 Spaniards
marched through Madrid on Sunday in the latest of a string
of protests against a government plan to drain water from
the northern Ebro river to aid the arid
southeast. Ecologists say the $21 billion plan will endanger
the environment and wildlife in the Ebro area, but the
government argues it is vital for Spain's development
and complies with environmental standards.
- Aircraft manufacturing plants protest
U.S. halt on plane deal
- Xinhuanet, 17 January 2006. Six Spanish aircraft
manufacturing plants staged a five-minute work stoppage to
protest the U.S. opposition to sales of aircraft to
Venezuela. Workers and managers in the plants stopped work
at the request of the managers committee and blue-collar
unions.