French speaking part of Belgium. Support in the private sector however was still weak. In the Flemish speaking, part of Belgium on v a minoritv of workers joined the strike but they were very militant. Massive pickets were established to try to stop members of the Christian unions working this resulted in the police intervening on a number of occasions.
Despite this the austeribalkard War severe. In addition to job will be expected to contributions health care. Women in particular will be hit by the proposal to severely reduce — or in some cases even abolish -Detents To unemployed people who cohabiting. that it would no longer pay strike benefits. As a result the struggle LIC railworkers who constituted the most advanced section of the mass movement ended. Only the railworkers Henault province where the Socialists lead the union, continued to strike.
On 31 May the national Brussels which had been