Word: chemnitz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...growing discontent in the East was manifest last week when more than 45,000 municipal workers in East Berlin, Magdeburg, Chemnitz and other cities staged two-hour "warning strikes" to support calls for higher pay, job security and preferential tax treatment in a united Germany. For the second time in two weeks, public transportation was crippled and garbage trucks blocked the entrances of department stores, as bus drivers joined sanitation workers, nurses and secretaries for rallies in at least 10 cities. The demonstrators complain that their salaries, which average about half those in the West, are not enough to cover...
...enterprises of this former state conglomerate -- Planeta, Plamag, Zirkon, Brehmer and Perfecta-will now be run separately. All make sophisticated printing equipment, and all are international leaders in their fields. Some other machine and machine-tool companies get good marks from Western bankers, including the Fritz Heckert plant in Chemnitz and parts of the October 7 group like the Niles gear-grinding machine company that had its origins in Niles, Ohio. The list of the tigers, though, is far shorter than the list of the dogs...