Casualisation / Workplace
Europe's unions flex muscles against austerity plans
from reuters, 28 May 2010: "ROME, May 28 (Reuters) - Trade unions in southern Europe have this week ramped up their efforts to block deficit cutting austerity plans, announcing strikes, protest rallies and most recently efforts to unify their action across borders. Italy's 6-million strong CGIL union announced a nationwide stoppage on June 25 to be preceded by protest rallies around the country two weeks earlier, while Greece's private sector union GSEE said it would strike next month against pension reform..." more
Greece: General Strike demonstrations lead to pitched battles
from libcom via mw, updated 12 March 2010: "Battle Ground Athens: Second general strike leads to pitched battles... More than 150,000 people took to the streets of Athens against the austerity measures in a mass protest march that has led to extended battles in the Greek capital.
On Thursday March 11 all of Greece came to a 24 hour standstill as a result of the second general strike to be called within less than a month (not the third as reported by foreign media, as the first strike in February only concerned the public sector)..." more
Greece leads Europe's winter of discontent
from independent, 24 February 2010: "A wave of industrial and social unrest is building across Europe as workers resist attempts by governments and private companies to impose austerity policies, drive down wages and rescue some nations from near-bankruptcy. Huge protest rallies took place in cities across Spain last night; today a general strike could paralyse Greece while industrial action at French airports and oil plants as well as the narrowly averted stoppage at Germany's Lufthansa promise to be just the start of the greatest demonstration of public unrest seen on the continent since the revolutionary fervour of 1968..." more
Rio de Janeiro: Control of the poor seen as crucial for the 2016 Olympics
via no2010, 9 February 2010: "The prospect of the FIFA World Cup in 2014 followed by the Olympic Games in 2016 has reignited the debate about public security in a country where there is an undeclared war taking place in the favelas between the military police, paramilitary groups, and drug traffickers, but where the principal victims are the poor..." more
Making the 2010 World Cup work for the poor and working class
from infoshop, 27 January 2010: "The following leaflet was distributed by members of the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) and the Orlando West study circle on anarchism at a football tournament in an informal settlement in Soweto..." more
Visteon workers fight on
from freedom, 13 January 2010: "Workers at the car part manufacturers who won a momentous battle for redundancy payment from Ford motor giants last year are still locked in a bitter dispute with their ex-employers over money owed through the pension fund after the collapse of Visteon UK..." more
Hackney Heckler community newspaper launched!
from hackney, 3 October 2009: "Hackney's only truly independent non-commercial community newspaper, Hackney Heckler is launched October 3rd 2009 by the Hackney Solidarity Network. Hackney Solidarity Network aims to provide a space where both individuals and groups involved in campaigns or interested in campaigning, from across Hackney, can come to network, to report back on and share information on what they are doing..." more
Newswires: Vestas Solidarity
Updated daily: Articles from external newswires filtered for the keywords: Vestas, turbine, Isle of Wight... more
Newswires: Poverty
Updated daily: Articles from external newswires filtered for the keywords: poverty, poor, unemployed, workfare... more
COP15: Precarious United for Climate Action
from interactivist, 23 September 2009: "On December 12, the precarious organizing the postcapitalist mayday of precarious and migrants in many cities of Europe and Japan (and Canada: no border, no precarity!) call onto all friends and accomplices across Europe + world to join forces behind the "Precarious United for Climate Action" banner, joining the anticapitalist block at the big demonstration that will gather every single environmental organization and activist group on the planet voicing the need for climate justice and the responsibility of global capitalism for environmental disaster, marching from Parliament to Summit..." more
Britain, Anarchist journal Direct Action #47 - Occupy and Defy: the Visteon workers’ struggle & their union
from ainfos, 28 August 2009: "Over the spring, hundreds of workers at three car parts manufacturing plants across the UK were made redundant. In response, workers occupied the plants and, in doing so, demonstrated that any protection we might have from the ravages of this recession will come not from the generosity of employers, politicians or trade union bosses but from the action we take as rank and file workers..." more
Court rules that Vesta workers can be evicted immediately
from Undercurrents, updated 7 August 2009: "Breaking News - the court case in Newport, Isle of Wight has just been heard over the Vesta workers who are occupying their own factory making wind turbines. The court has just ruled this morning that Bailiffs are free to enter the factory to evict the striking workers from the Vesta factory. Activists including the band Seize the Day have spent the entire night on the roof of the factory in solidarity with the workers..." more
A Post-Fordist struggle: Report & reflections on the UK Ford-Visteon dispute 2009
from interactivist, 8 July 2009: "NEW PAMPHLET FROM PAST TENSE - On 31st of March 2009 Ford/Visteon announced the closure of three factories in the UK and the sacking of 610 workers. The company was declared insolvent and put into receivership: workers were sacked with only a few minutes notice. No guarantees were given concerning redundancy or pensions payments..." more
Olympic Dream or Workers' Nightmare? - IWW report on working conditions at the London 2012 Olympics site
from hsn, 29 June 2009: "This report documents and critically analyses the working conditions of construction workers on the Stratford City development site of the 2012 Olympic Games. We base our findings entirely on the accounts of anonymous IWW and non-IWW construction workers employed there. The report documents widespread mismanagement and a lack of resources devoted to ensuring that health and safety standards are maintained. Police intimidation of workers and harassment union activists is also documented..." more
El Libertario: Campaign against the assassination of workers in Venezuela
from ainfos, 20 June 2009: "This past May 5 union leader Argenis Vasquez, organizing secretary in the union at Toyota’s plant in Cumana, was gunned down by thugs as he left his house. This assassination occurred just after a month-long strike demanding improvements. The murdered worker was a leader of the protest and key in confrontations with the company and the management..." more
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Police Review: magazine cartoon - "In staggeringly poor taste"
from J4J campaign, 18 November 2008: We would imagine that, in the midst of the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, publications aimed at and widely read by serving police officers would show greater sensitivity in the way they talk about fatal shootings by the police. But evidently not. The magazine "Police Review", in its 14 November edition, decided that the introduction of new rules preventing firearms officers from conferring after a shooting was best illustrated by this appalling cartoon. more


