Thousands of dockworkers organized strikes and roadblocks across Europe on January 17 to protest European Union plans to allow shipping bosses greater control over the workforce and hiring at ports. A 24-hour strike on January 17 shut down operations at ports in Finland and Belgium. Workers blocked all roads into the Belgian port of Antwerp, the second largest in Europe, while the German union Verdi said 5,000 port and ship workers walked out at the country’s container terminals in Hamburg, Bremen, and Bremerhaven. Unionists also took action in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Sweden.
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