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30,000 demonstrate against social cutbacks

This content was published on Sep 19, 2009 “We’ve had enough of these ‘bonus knights’ riding around and managers on excessive salaries,” Paul Rechtsteiner, president of the Swiss Trade Union Federation, told the audience in Bern’s packed Parliament Square on Saturday. He also criticised working conditions and pressure placed on workers by managers who themselves “filled their pockets”. The public should not bear…