Casualisation / Workplace

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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