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GM, Opel hit as thousands take to the streets in Europe-wide protests
by Open-Publishing - Thursday 21 October 2004
FRANKFURT : Nearly 40,000 people in Germany, backed by expressions of support
elsewhere in Europe, took to the streets to protest plans by US auto giant General
Motors to axe about one-fifth of its European workforce and possibly even close
a plant.
Police estimated that about 20,000 people demonstrated in the northwestern town
of Bochum, home to one of four factories belonging to GM’s German unit Opel and
currently the centre of the wave of protests .../...