MADRID : A strike and growing unrest at Spain's shipyards pose the first major test of industrial relations for Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who has promised to fight the dockworkers' corner and save jobs threatened by fierce competition.
The publicly-owned Izar group, which employs 10,700 people, is facing bankruptcy and unions have called for a strike at the group's 10 sites on Tuesday to show their rejection of a restructuring plan tabled by SEPI, the Spanish government industrial holding society which owns the docks
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