BERLIN, July 17 (Reuters) - The chairman of Germany's ruling Social Democrats (SPD) on Saturday attacked companies that used the fragile state of the economy to "gag" employees as car workers kept up protests against plans to lengthen their hours.
"There are some companies who want to use the problems we're facing at the moment to gag the workers," Franz Muentefering told the Berliner Zeitung newspaper. "There are rituals surfacing which I had hoped had long since passed."
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