Industrial Workers of the World

The factory

When VIO.ME’s owner decided to shut down his construction manufacturing plant, the factory’s workers decided to occupy the facilities and create their own ecological production line. The plant is guarded 24 hours a day as it has remained occupied by its own workers since 2011 after the management suddenly announced that all its production activities would end.

Turkish car maker Tofa? has announced some of the details of the concessions given to its protesting workers in a written statement late May 24. 

Production activities resumed in Tofa?, a joint venture of Italy?s Fiat and Turkey?s Koç Holding, as of May 22 after a week of labor protests. 

The Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Serbia, the Independence Union and the Association of Unions of Pensioners will stage a protest in Belgrade on May 1, marking International Workers' Day.

Ahead of the protest, they organised a two-day campaign in six towns and cities across the country in order to promote labour rights and call for improvements.

Being a laborer in this country means playing a compulsory game of ?Russian roulette? every day.

It means knowing that the pistol will fire three to four times a day but despite this knowledge, continuing to work.

Four teachers unions in Serbia went on strike on Monday, cutting classes from 45 to 30 minutes, after the government refused to exempt them from the 10-per-cent cut in public-sector salaries that came into force on November 1.

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There will be no metro, electric railway or tram in Athens between noon and 4 p.m. on Wednesday due to a work stoppage by employees.

Unions said on Monday that they are taking the action because the management at STASY, the company that operates fixed track modes of public transport, has so far failed to sign a new collective contract.

Workers in England's state-run National Health Service go on strike on Monday for the first time since 1982 following a government refusal to hike their pay.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Thursday the strike some police unions had strarted was illegal and called on them to go back to work.

The civil servants’ umbrella union, ADEDY, is holding a 24-hour strike on Tuesday to protest an Athens court ruling that deemed industrial action organized by the union against the government’s evaluation program to be illegal.

Teachers protest as school year starts

BELGRADE -- The Association of Teachers' Trade Unions of Serbia staged a protest rally in Belgrade on the first day of the new school year,.

They are demanding from the government to exclude the education and health-care sectors from the announced reduction in public sector wages by ten percent.