IBM workers protest during Obama’s Hannover fair visit
World | 25 Apr 2016 6:53 pm
As US President Barack Obama tours the Hannover trade fair, hundreds of people are demonstrating outside against job cuts at the American technology and consulting company IBM.
(Pictured, Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel try on virtual reality goggles at Hannover Messe).
Some 200 IBM workers staged a noisy rally on the edge of the fairground today to protest against the measures they say will cost 900 jobs in Germany.
Demonstrators held up placards reading “Profit, profit, profit, where's the human?'' and “We are family? One IBM. Find the mistake.''
A union leader called on protesters to “be loud _ maybe the president will hear you.'' Obama is in Hannover to promote American business at the world's largest industrial trade fair.
IBM Germany didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.—AP
