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Home > News > Feature Stories > Novartis workers happy with results of one-day 'warning strike'
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Wednesday, 16 November, 2011

Novartis workers happy with results of one-day 'warning strike'

Novartis employees in the canton of Vaud went on a brief strike today over the announced job cuts at the Basel-based pharmaceutical giant. A representative for its workers in Nyon says they got what they wanted. WRS’s Alex Helmick speaks with Jacob Zijlstra, head of one of the Novartis employee delegations in Nyon:

A view of the entrance gate at the Novartis production site in Nyon. The Swiss pharma giant on Tuesday announced a cost cutting program including some 2,000 job cuts as the company's profit in the third quarter was weaker than expected. Two sites in Switzerland--this one in Nyon, and one in Basel--and one site in Italy will be closed. (KEYSTONE/Dominic Favre)
Around 1,000 people take part in a demonstration Saturday organized by the trade union Unia against mass layoffs in Basel. Since July, four corporations have announced some 1,800 job cuts in the greater Basel area: Swiss Metal, Harlan, Huntsman and now Novartis. (KEYSTONE / Georgios Kefalas)
More than a thousand Novartis employees, Unia union members and supporters--and at least two dogs--demonstrated on Saturday against the closing of the pharmaceutical company's site at Nyon-Prangins. (KEYSTONE/Dominic Favre)
Novartis employees met in a Nyon community center for discussions on today's one-day strike. (KEYSTONE/Jean-Christophe Bott)

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