> From: Thomas Murakami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Strike in German Retail Trade > X-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Multiple recipients of list LABOR-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > - Warning strikes and negotiations in retail trade > > Mainz. Warning strikes and negotiations continued today in retail trades' > wage disput. The Gewerkschaft Handel, Banken und Versicherungen (HBV) (a > union of workers in retail trade, insurances and banks) had threatened > massive strikes, if the employers would not present a negotiable offer by > today. Both parties are willing to continue talks in Munich tonight. They > had interrupted the third round of negotiations at noon, in order to > discuss internally. > > > - Nationwide search action against suspected left-wing extremists > > Karlsruhe/Berlin. The flats of suspected left-wing terrorists and extremists > have been searched in eight federal states today. As a spokesman of the > Federal Prosecutor's Office told, the investigating magistrate at the Federal > High Court had issued the corresponding search warrants. Searches of a total > of 50 flats started in the early morning hours and were carried out by > both the state police and the Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigation. > Presumed members of the extreme left "Antiimperialistische Zellen" are > suspected to have carried out bomb attacks on CDU-politicians in Wolfsburg > and near Duesseldorf. > > > - Letter bomb attack in Luebeck > > Luebeck. A letter bomb exploded this morning in the city hall of Luebeck. > The chief of the SPD-faction Thomas Roter (sp?) seriously injured his > hand in the attack. The letter had been addressed to the deputy mayor > of Luebeck, Dietrich Sameit (sp?). The Federal Prosecutor's Office suspects > a right-wing extremist background of the assault as well as a connection with > the recent series of assaults in Austria. According to a spokesman of the > office the letter had been posted in Austria. The Federal Prosecution > investigates on the grounds of attempted murder. > Sameit had criticized the sentence against the culprits of the first assault > on the Luebeck synagogue as being too lenient. It was only last friday that > letter bombs exploded in Linz and Munich. > > > - Coalition negotiations in Bremen > > Bremen. CDU and SPD started negotiations for a grand coalition in the > Hanseatic city this afternoon. Both chief negotiators, Henning Scherf (SPD) > and Ulrich Noelle (CDU) declared, that the talks had to conclude within two > weeks time. It is not clear which party of a future grand coalition is to > provide the mayor. > Both the CDU and the SPD have 37 seats each in the "Buergerschaft" (the > hanseatic town parliament) after the elections of 14. May. The Social > Democrats of Bremen just had decided in favour of a grand coalition in a > members poll on Sunday. > > > > ________________________________________________ > Thomas Murakami,Univ.of > Warwick,SIBS(PHD),Coventry,CV47AL(UK),Tel:+44-1203-52-4342/Fax:-3719,PHDTH@wbs. > warwick.ac.uk,http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/~bsrjw/wbs.phd/wbsphd.html > > Post-Structuralism > Post-Fordism > Post-Modernism > Post-early before Christmas. > -------------------------------- >
