Following General Motors announcement that it would cut up to 12,000 jobs in its European plants, workers at the Opel assembly plant in Bochum, Germany have staged a wildcat strike. Workers, who are planning protests and rallies at Opel plants across Europe, are demanding that G.M. guarantee it will not lay off workers or shut the factory down.
See "G.M. Workers in Germany Protest Job Cuts a 3rd Day", Mark Landler, The New York Times, October 18, 2004