In Germany, the assembly line has begun rolling again at a General Motors plant after workers there voted to end a six-day walkout aimed at stopping thousands of threatened job cuts, CCTV reported Thursday.

Germany is home to the world's best-paid car workers and where one in every seven jobs depends on the motor vehicle sector.

The chief employee representative at the Bochum plant said more than two thirds of the employees on Wednesday voted to go back to work. The staff have been protesting against GM's plans to cut its European workforce by roughly a fifth, or by up to 12,000 jobs, in a drive to cut losses at its European operations.

Some four thousand of the 7,600 production jobs at Bochum are on the line. The strike interrupted supplies to other factories and brought production to a halt in three other European plants.

Source: cctv.com