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Migration and policing updates from Greece

Update on several stories from Greece, including an assessment of the reactions to the recent Global Forum on Migration and Development.

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An assessment of the reactions to the Global Forum on Migration and Development
(appeared in clandestinenglish here)

Tension on labour and prison fronts in Greece

Tension is building up on both labour and prison front in Greece, with 3000 prisoners refusing food across the country, and workers from different sectors staging marches and occupations

A week before the official start of the “unrest season”, the 30 days between the anniversary of the 1973 Polytechnic Uprising (November 17), the anniversary of the assassination of Alexandros Grigoropoulos and the start of the 2008 December Uprising (December 6) and the trial of Girgoropoulos murderers (December 15), things are looking tense in Greece.

Bus strikes in East London

Bus drivers and engineers in East London walked out today in a 24-hour action which stopped around 750 buses and either froze or disrupted 58 routes.

The East London Bus Company employs 2,600 workers, of which all but 200 are members of the Unite Union. The union balloted its members after the company imposed a pay freeze on its staff, claiming the recession had forced their hand. The vote was in favour of strike action by 84%.

Peiraeus dockworkers on new 48h strike

Dockworkers in Peiraeus defy political pressure by extending their strike for another 48h.

Peiraeus dockworkers have defied mounting political pressure to return to work, after their second round of striking, by announcing another 48h strike that will result in a total week of no import or export from the harbour's main commercial pier.

Teachers’ strike ends in Chengdu

Students bringing water to teachers on strike at CFLS

A monumental strike by about 1,000 teachers from three privately-owned primary and secondary schools ended Monday, November 9, when the government intervened and temporarily took over management at one of the schools.

The teachers began their strike Thursday, November 5, with the support of many students and parents, for improvement of teachers' salaries, benefits, work conditions, and school facilities. Although the teachers have gone back to work, they are still negotiating with the owners, now through the arbitration of the government and with input from parents.

Post strikes suspended: this deal is no deal! Resume action!

Joe Thorne from the Commune examines the CWU's decision to call off postal workers industrial action in order for "negotiations" to occur, and calls for postal workers to take the struggle into their own hands.

At the top of the CWU-Royal Mail agreement is a header. “Final Draft – 5 November 2009 —- 1.10AM” (available as PDF attachment below). This innocuous line is emblematic of the CWU negotiating team’s strategy: it indicates that the text was agreed more than 7 hours after the strikes were called off.

High-School occupations snowball in response to repression in Greece

The decision of the State Persecutor to press charges against pupils occupying their school in Salonica has led to a snowball of occupations of high-schools in northern Greece.

In the last month, there has been a silent wave of high-school occupations across Greece. Given the national elections and the the urban guerrilla saga in Athens, these have been grossly undereported and generally overlooked as an endemic start-of-the-school-season phenomenon.

Three dead in garment workers' clashes - unions promised new role

Garment workers protest

The latest clashes in the highly charged arena of the Bangladeshi garment industry...

Tongi, an industrial city located 15 miles (24 km) north of Dhaka; early last Saturday morning (31st Oct) several hundred workers turned up at the gates of the Nippon Garment Factory at Ershad Nagar - expecting to work and to receive wage arrears owed them.

Peiraeus dockworkers resume strikes

Peiraeus dockworkers have resumed striking against the sell out of the largest pier of Greece's main harbour to COSCO after negotiations collapse.

The Peiraeus dockworkers of Pier II of Greece's main commercial harbour have called a 48h strike starting Tuesday 3 November, thus resuming the industrial action that had seen sea commerce freeze for more than two weeks in early October.

Fujitsu UK workers set to strike

Fujitsu workers strike

Union members at Fujitsu Services have voted for strike action over pensions, pay and job cuts.

The action is not yet decided. Senior Unite union reps are meeting today to decide the next move after 74 per cent of members who voted called for a walk out. Some 92 per cent agreed to industrial action short of a strike.

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