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Belgium: more strike action threatened

Xinhua, April 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

Trade unions in Belgium are to decide on whether or not to organize an additional national 24-hour strike in the country on May 12.

The announcement comes as public sector workers are currently holding a 24-hour strike that has seen public transport and other services across the country severely disrupted on Wednesday.

The socialist trade union FGBT announced on Wednesday that it would ballot its members about the possibility of taking further industrial strike action, according to the newspaper, De Standaard.

The vote on whether or not to go ahead with any further action is scheduled for April 28.

According to De Standaard, the union is divided, with the call for further strike action coming from the trade union membership, not its leadership.

The union leadership is willing to go ahead with a national strike if joined by the liberal and Christian trade unions, both of which did not participate in Wednesday's action.

If there is no majority support for a further strike in May, then a series of regional actions based around youth unemployment has been proposed as an alternative. Endit