Germany: the federal Labour Court confirmed that “solidarity strikes” are legal

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In a ruling published on June 19, 2007, the Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht - BAG) confirmed that solidarity strikes led in a sector indirectly concerned by collective conventions negotiations were legal. (Ref. 070565)
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By deciding that solidarity strikes were legal and that “their admissibility depended – as for any other labour conflict – on the proportionality principle”, the BAG’s first chamber nullified the ruling of the Low-Saxony’s regional labour court. The case opposed a large printer – the complainant – to Verdi, the services’ trade union. The printer asked the union for damages after the latter had organized a solidarity strike in the printing sector, that is to say that 20 employees stopped working

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