Strike threa in Germany
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WEST GERMANY'S 50,0001 distance lorry-drivers I threatened their first m strike after negotiations employers for impro working conditions and sh hours broke down this mon Already there has been radic union action in Dortr where drivers — backec "flying pickets" in buse blocked the entrances to a warehouse.
Germany's Public Ser, Transport and Traffic U demands:
• Shorter working hour: long distance men limited average 50 hours per week I Ten days free per month five extra days annual holidi • A ban on drivers being fc to load and unload their veh
Employers rejected the t. demands which, they c would endanger the existen many of the country's 1, private haulage firms anc livelihood of their 240 employees.
The strike could hit B hauliers as the more mi lorrymen plan to bl autobahns and frontiers their vehicles.