Berne: Construction Workers Protest for New State Coat Contract

Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)

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Almost a thousand construction workers have demonstrated for a new overall employment contract and against excessive working hours.

pme.ch

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Several hundred construction workers demonstrated in Bern on Friday. They demanded a new national collective bargaining agreement and denounced their working hours. The protests will continue next week in French-speaking Switzerland.

Handelszeitung

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The protest wave of construction workers reached the Bern region on Friday. Several hundred of them gathered in Bern around noon for a protest meeting.

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On the 31st, the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) held a discussion meeting in Tokyo in preparation for the 2026 spring labor offensive. In response to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's order to "consider relaxing regulations on working hours," the group issued an emergency appeal in protest, saying, "The current upper limit on overtime work is the line at which death from overwork is recognized, and relaxing it would be nothing but a st…