First day of general strike at Mittal Galati, Romania

Employees at Mittal Group’s Romanian steel mill Mittal Galati launched a general strike on Monday morning claiming a 25% salary increase and further bonuses. The management of the plant had offered a salary increase of only 9.5% with bonuses.

According to Romanian news agency NewsIn, over 600 employees gathered before the plant’s main entrance in the first two hours of the protest. A group of demonstrators were trying to force through the gate and throwing objects at guards and brought down a guard’s cabin.