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...quarter of last year. This has angered the Belgian unions, which are taking a stand against what they see as an affront to the country's beer-making tradition. "This is the ugly face of capitalism," says Roger Van Vlasselaer, who heads the Flemish Brabant section of the ABVV-FGTB, Belgium's main union. "AB InBev are just thinking of their bottom line for shareholders, regardless of the social cost. There is no reason at all to fire people...
...head of the socialist trade union ABVV-FGTB, Rudy De Leeuw, said that three-quarters of union members were taking home between $1400 and $2200 per month. "If you have to pay your heating, your electricity, your loan payments, etc, there's not much left," he said. "And we are not even talking about the pensioners, the unemployed or the handicapped...
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