on Wednesday, the employees of the Dutch unit of Indian steel company Tata Steel announced a strike in protest against planned job cuts, according to branch trade Union FNV.
Working on the preparation of raw materials laid down their tools at 14:00 local time, forcing the blast furnace and other operations at the metallurgical plant of IJmuiden to stop.
"They want, among other things, to ensure that there will be no layoffs," - said in his statement a spokesman for the FNV Roel Berghuis.
Dutch trade unions say that the Tata group plans to cut 1 000 of the 9 000 jobs in the Netherlands in the framework of a wider restructuring of its European operations in the UK. Tata Steel Europe says it is not planning any compulsory redundancies.
Informed the factory workers protestowali against the dismissal of the General Director of the company, which, in their opinion, was caused by the disagreement of the head with the decision of the parent company to begin mass layoffs.
