Brutal austerity and unprecedented strike wave shatters Belgian social model The bosses’ organisation, Federation of Enterprises in Belgium (FEB), dubbed it the “€1 billion strike”. They were referring to the supposed financial loss caused by the three-day strike on 24, 25, and 26 November. This bosses’ propaganda, aimed at frightening workers, instead resulted in many people thinking: “Wow, is this the wealth that our work produces in just three days? And what would happen if the CEOs and shareholders stopped working? In reality, nobody would notice. We are the real wealth creators!”
Belgium: the Revolutionary Communist Organisation is here – “For our generation, communism is no longer taboo” The launch of the Revolutionary Communist Organisation – the Revolutionary Communist International in Belgium – took place on Saturday 9 November. Our organisation has made a fresh start with a militant revolutionary communist profile!
Belgium: workers feel brunt of industrial recession | Unions have no strategy beyond ‘social dialogue’ On 16 September over ten thousand workers and trade union activists marched in Brussels against closures by Belgium’s last automobile manufacturer. In July, Audi’s announcement that it would downsize its factory met with an angry reaction among the workers. Two months later it announced the plant’s final closure with 4,000 direct jobs and 5,000 indirect, outsourced jobs to be lost. Given the magnitude of the closure the trade union response has been mild.
