The government plans to oblige prison officers to provide a minimum service in prisons during long-running strikes. Unions describe this as a breach of the fundamental right to strike. Prison officers at several prisons across the country laid down their work in protest of the plan to oblige them to provide a minimum service during strikes. The strike has hit prisons across the county. Turnout varied across the country with 74% of prison officers at Flemish jails reported for work to just 11% reporting for the morning shift at a Leuven jail.
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