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During a demonstration in Brussels city centre on Tuesday morning, prison guards forced their way into the office of federal justice minister Koen Geens, causing considerable damage, reports the F
The Belgian government has enlisted the help of the army to provide "additional humanitarian assistance" to prisons in Brussels and Wallonia, where prison personnel has been on strike for 12 days,
The socialist union FGTB has announced a new national strike in Belgium on 24 June, reports Le Soir. The union had indicated a few days ago that there were plans for a strike.
Just a week after Brussels Airport reopened following the terror attacks on 22 March, air traffic on Wednesday came to a near standstill after a spontaneous action by air traffic controllers, writ
The three unions of air traffic controller Belgocontrol, Belgium's air traffic control authority, have filed a strike notice, with actions possible from 15 February, says the Christian trade
Unions representing rail staff will begin a 48-hour strike this evening at 22.00, following the breakdown of talks with federal mobility minister Jacqueline Galant.
Postal deliveries should start returning to normal, after a week in which unions picketed sorting centres, preventing mail from going out.
Striking rail workers have cost the rail authority SNCB a total of €10 million over the last year – “the cost of 160 full-time staff,” according to director Jo Cornu, speaking in the federal
Rail services in Belgium are disrupted until the end of Tuesday evening because of regional strike action by SNCB train drivers and signal workers.
