Belgian unions protest for wage increases in Brussels

Belgian police said 3,200 union representatives took part in a protest in Brussels on Monday to call for wage increases and better protection of unions' right to protest.

Belgian unions CSC and FGTB, which organized the march, called on the government to adjust a 1996 law that provides a framework for salary negotiations and to limit the impact of a surge in energy prices.

The unions also want to protest a court decision to sentence 17 union members to suspended jail terms and fines for taking part in a blockade action on a bridge in 2015 .

"If we don't fight for it, we'll all be silenced one day, we won't be able to say anything more. We will become workers who will answer 'yes' to everything all the time and this is not normal," union representative Vylma Tchiakpe said.

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