Only Dehaene I made more strikes than Michel I

It is from the beginning of the nineties ago that a government policy, more social protest has produced Michel I. That it appears from the figures of the European vakbondsinstituut CASE. Also, 2018 will be in the tables as a pressure stakingsjaar.

The first half of 2018 resulted in 173.960 strike days. Every worker on strike, was counted as a day of strikes. That is quite a lot, according to Kurt Vandaele, researcher at the European Trade Union Institute. There was discontinued against the policies of the government, but also, for example, against the rising pressure. At supermarket chain Lidl was in april for days on end stopped against the pressure.

Figures on the second half of the year are not there yet, but also, in the last six months of 2018, there was a lot of social protest against the policy of the team of prime minister Charles Michel. In december, in companies throughout the country, the work deposited, at the failure of the consultations on the heavy professions and against the lack of purchasing power. That makes 2018 a "above average" pressure stakingsjaar was, says Vandaele.

this ensures that, since the nineties of the previous century only under the Dehaene I (1992-1995) more to stop than under this government. The policies of Michel I attracted more social protest than the governments under the Dehaene II, Verhofstadt I, II and III, Leterme I and II, Van Rompuy I or the Di Rupo government. the

Concrete is Michel I (up to and including the first semester of 2018) in an average of 10,8 strike days per 1,000 employees per month. With as busiest stakingsjaar 2014, that a general strike had. Dehaene I was good for an average of 13,4 strike days per 1,000 employees per month.