Belgian Police Beating Protesters

[Janelle2002 3,865]

100,000 workers protest Belgian labor reform

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BRUSSELS (AP) — About 100,000 workers marched across Brussels Thursday to protest government free-market reforms and austerity measures, and the demonstration ended in violence when people set fire to cars and threw cobblestones and police responded with tear gas and water cannons.

About 50 people were injured and 30 detained, police said, in one of biggest postwar labor demonstrations in Belgium, a country long seen as a vaunted welfare state.

The violent end overshadowed a raucous but largely peaceful march for better protection of workers during the economic crisis. The workers were protesting government policies that will raise the pension age, freeze wages and cut into public services.

"They are hitting the workers, the unemployed. They are not looking for money where it is, I mean, people with a lot of money," said Philippe Dubois, who came from the industrial rust belt of Liege.

The unexpectedly big march opens a monthlong campaign by the trade unions against the business-friendly governing coalition and is to be capped with a nationwide strike on Dec. 15.

Despite the opening of government-led talks with employers and unions later Thursday, Socialist trade union leader Rudy De Leeuw vowed to continue the protests for weeks on end.

Belgium has a long postwar tradition of collective bargaining between employers and workers, and successive coalition governments representing a full scale of public opinion often have been able to contain social disagreements. But the current coalition, made up of three pro-business parties and the centrist Christian Democrats, is the first in decades that has been able to set such a clear free-market agenda.

The government says it has been forced to push through stringent austerity measures to keep the budget deficit within European Union constraints and insists that businesses need more lenient tax policies to become more competitive in the global market.

The trade unions object to government policies that promise to raise the pension age from 65 to 67, freeze the automatic link between wages and inflation, and cut public services in a way that would affect the entire population.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/thousands-workers-protest-belgian-labor-reform-100413429.html

Edited November 7, 2014 by Janelle2002

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Sad to see police brutality in any country.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

100,000 workers protest Belgian labor reform

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BRUSSELS (AP) — About 100,000 workers marched across Brussels Thursday to protest government free-market reforms and austerity measures, and the demonstration ended in violence when people set fire to cars and threw cobblestones and police responded with tear gas and water cannons.

About 50 people were injured and 30 detained, police said, in one of biggest postwar labor demonstrations in Belgium, a country long seen as a vaunted welfare state.

The violent end overshadowed a raucous but largely peaceful march for better protection of workers during the economic crisis. The workers were protesting government policies that will raise the pension age, freeze wages and cut into public services.

"They are hitting the workers, the unemployed. They are not looking for money where it is, I mean, people with a lot of money," said Philippe Dubois, who came from the industrial rust belt of Liege.

The unexpectedly big march opens a monthlong campaign by the trade unions against the business-friendly governing coalition and is to be capped with a nationwide strike on Dec. 15.

Despite the opening of government-led talks with employers and unions later Thursday, Socialist trade union leader Rudy De Leeuw vowed to continue the protests for weeks on end.

Belgium has a long postwar tradition of collective bargaining between employers and workers, and successive coalition governments representing a full scale of public opinion often have been able to contain social disagreements. But the current coalition, made up of three pro-business parties and the centrist Christian Democrats, is the first in decades that has been able to set such a clear free-market agenda.

The government says it has been forced to push through stringent austerity measures to keep the budget deficit within European Union constraints and insists that businesses need more lenient tax policies to become more competitive in the global market.

The trade unions object to government policies that promise to raise the pension age from 65 to 67, freeze the automatic link between wages and inflation, and cut public services in a way that would affect the entire population.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/thousands-workers-protest-belgian-labor-reform-100413429.html

It's hard to start taking cookies out of the jar once you have been stocking it non stop

[spookyturtle 9,465]

Protesters should be beaten.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Protesters should be beaten.

They are just following the example given to them by their big brother. The U.S.

[spookyturtle 9,465]

They are just following the example given to them by their big brother. The U.S.

The US only beats black protestors.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

The US only beats black protestors.

Ouch!

[spookyturtle 9,465]

Ouch!

You don't agree?

[Janelle2002 3,865]

You don't agree?

I'm black. I'm not allowed to agree or I will be accused of inciting racism.

[spookyturtle 9,465]

I'm black. I'm not allowed to agree or I will be accused of inciting racism.

Sorry, I forgot about that.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I'm black. I'm not allowed to agree or I will be accused of inciting racism.

Or worse, you could be accused of acting white.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Or worse, you could be accused of acting white.

Ow, I'm black on the outside and white on the inside.

[spookyturtle 9,465]

Ow, I'm black on the outside and white on the inside.

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[Janelle2002 3,865]

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[The Nature Boy 4,224]

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I like you. I am shocked spooky would cal you something like that