Strikes at Fiat and letter of solidarity from Poland
Submitted by akai on Jul 15 2010 20:58
A series of strikes has been taking place this week at Fiat plants throughout Italy.
Today there were strikes related to Fiat's decision to cut bonuses this year.
Tomorrow, Fiom and some other unions are calling for a four-hour strike throughout Italy. The strike is in protest of the sacking of four unionists in retaliation for not signing the Pomigliano deal.
Another Union Protest without Workers, Another Missed Opportunity
Submitted by akai on Jul 14 2010 22:09
Late on July 13 I received by personal email an invitation from "workers of TPSA" to join a picket in front of the French Embassy the next day. (TPSA is owned by France Telecom.)
Having a number of contacts with rank and file workers at the company, I assumed this explained the invitation and, without making any phone calls to check, I managed to get there during my break at work.
Fiat Tychy Tries to Impose Worse Conditions
Submitted by akai on Jun 28 2010 04:36
The management of FIAT in Tychy are trying to get the unions to agree to even worse working conditions.
The company is trying to make use of the "Anti-Crisis Act" to change, among other things, work schedules.
Unsuccessful attempts to scare syndicalists in Poland
Submitted by Ed on Jun 24 2010 20:58
Lawyers for the firm Turret Development are trying, unsuccessfully, to scare off anarcho-syndicalists of the ZSP and dissuade them from their campaign to get plane tickets back to China for 21 stranded workers who are stuck in Warsaw without money or a valid work permit.
The workers were employed on the Wola Tower construction site. Turret's lawyers are trying to convince people that they bear no respsonsibility whatsoever for what went on with these workers. They claim (despite what is written on their own webpages) they have nothing to do with Wola Tower and that the investor is a company called "Massandra" and that subcontractors are at fault.
Chinese construction workers stranded in Warsaw again
Submitted by akai on Jun 17 2010 20:56
A group of 21 Chinese construction workers have ended up camped outside the Chinese Embassy in Warsaw. They have no money to return home and are waiting for help.
The workers were hired to work on the Wola Tower construction site. After that, they were sent to work in Lodz and in Olawa.
To Noam Chomsky on Boycotting Elections
Submitted by akai on Jun 14 2010 22:55
The following is a statement by ZSP.
To Noam Chomsky: Why We Boycott Elections
Letter from Fiat workers in Tychy
The following is a letter sent from an underground group of workers in Fiat Poland in Tychy.
[i]It was written on June 13, on the eve of a referendum in Pomigliano d’Arco near Naples. The workers there are being asked to decide about their work conditions. Fiat agreed to invest money in this plant for production of the Panda, which is currently produced in Tychy, Poland.
Murder and riots in Warsaw
Submitted by akai on May 25 2010 00:30
A 36-year-old Nigerian man was shot to death by a cop known to have violent, racist inclinations.
On Sunday May 23, police raided some Nigerian traders at the Stadium bazaar in the Praga district of Warsaw. One guy was apparently handcuffed and push to the ground. His 36-year-old colleague from Nigeria, Max, tried to intervene and get the police to stop brutalizing the other. Max was shot in the stomach and killed.
A question of ownership: reflections on privatization and the bus drivers' strike
Submitted by akai on May 16 2010 15:39
Thoughts on the options to privatization.
Bus drivers in Gostynin, Poland, are striking against the privatization of their company, demanding its communalization. Demanding communalization instead of privatization is still something rather uncommon here but is naturally seen as an alternative. However, the issue of communalization also requires some analysis.
Poland: Workers at bus company strike against privatization
Submitted by akai on May 7 2010 09:32
Workers at the state-owned bus company PKS in Gostynin have been striking since Tuesday. They are against the privatization of the company and demand its communalization. And they are threatening to escalate protests.
Workers are also demanding pay rises.
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