INDUSTRIAL ACTION – EU
July 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLBRITAIN still suffers from comparatively high rates of industrial action compared with its European Union (EU) competitors, according to the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. The EU agency says that whilst the UK lost 904,900 working days through strikes in 2004, Germany lost just 50,673, and the Netherlands 15,000 (in 2003). Only Spain had a worse record last year, with 928,151 days lost. Some new EU member states in eastern Europe have also have very passive workforces: Estonia registered 1,548 working ...
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