Education Strike 2009 in Germany
13 July 2009Posted by AFed
Germany: More than 250,000 take to the Streets
In June pupils and students in Germany took part in mass demonstrations, occupations and blockades in the “Education Strike 2009”. Protesters demanded e.g. the reorganisation of the very clumsily introduced Bachelor and Master structures, free access to and the democratisation of the education system, smaller classes, and the scrapping of the three tiered German school system (unsurprisingly a persons’ class background and nationality largely determines where they end up).
Lindsey strike committee thanks supporters
2 July 2009Posted by AFed
The following was sent to those who supported the Lindsey Oil Refinery (LOR) strike, under the banner of Workers of the World Unite: http://www.afed.org.uk/pdfs/lindsey_support_reply_letter.pdf To…
Lindsey strikes again!!!
27 June 2009Posted by AFed
Thousands of workers across Britain have shown solidarity with construction workers sacked at the Lindsey Oil Refinery (owned by Total – the petroleum and energy supplier) expansion project by taking wildcat, or spontaneous ‘unofficial’, strike action against their bosses. Some may remember the Lindsey Refinery workers from the series of wildcats that took place earlier this year, wildcats which the mainstream media misleadingly portrayed as racist and nationalist due to slogans used by a minority of the workers, despite the fact that foreign workers had come out on strike with their fellow workers, and demanded to help unionise and increase the working conditions of these foreign labourers.
The Racialisation of the Power Station Strikes
3 February 2009Posted by AF
Scottish Unite official Bobby Buirds’ comments that the current strike are “not against foreign workers, it’s against foreign companies discriminating against British labour” confirms that the strike is against bosses, not fellow (foreign) workers. The foreign workers are just doing what any of us would do if we were desperate for work, but the media have turned this into some “foreigners go home” trip again. Foreign workers regularly suffer appalling living and working conditions, along with low wages and little in the way of representation. Given that the contract was awarded to the lowest-bidding tender, it is likely that these are the same conditions being faced by the Italian workers on Humberside.
Walkouts in refineries by an oil worker
3 February 2009Posted by An oil worker
I work for a contracted company in charge of the maintenance of a oil refinery in south Wales. The start of the strike occurred due to an Italian company being contracted to increase refinery capacity at the Lindsey refinery. The strikes quickly spread across the rest of the refineries sporting the slogan “British Jobs for British workers”.
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