Workers Strike After Airbus Announces Job Cuts

Workers Strike After Airbus Announces Job Cuts

Source Link: www.spiegel.de

Airbus parent EADS on Wednesday made its long-awaited announcement on the future of the European plane-maker. The response was swift, with workers in Germany and France walking off the job.

Turns out, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was right. Last week he had ruffled feathers in Germany by saying that Airbus planned to cut 10,000 jobs -- and fueled fears that the Germans were going to get the short end of the stick when it came to the Airbus restructuring program.

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[edit on 2/28/2007 by shots]

This does not look good at all for Airbus. I had expected France to strike, but Germany really surprises me.




[edit on 2/28/2007 by shots]