Fight for Union Freedom in Germany

Posted on December 21, 2009, filed Under WSA. Leave a Comment

by Tom Wetzel

A struggle by the workers at the New Babylon Cinema in Berlin — a relatively small firm — has now blown up into a fight with much larger legal consequences for German workers. A December 11, 2009 court edict in Berlin now poses some serious questions: Will German workers have the legal right to a union of their own choosing? Will they have the legal right to form grassroots alternative unions?

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