Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BERNOCCHI Piero, Cobas
Make them pay for their crisis! Let’s stop the massacre of the Finance Act! 5th June National Demonstration in Rome From 7th to 15th June National strikes of State Schools, Public Sector, Public Transport After a few months of irresponsible optimism regarding the overcoming of the crisis (…)
, by LUBBERSEN Rob, van BAAREN Lot
On 19 and 20 May Abvakabo FNV – with over 350,000 members the largest trade union in the Netherlands’ public sector – held its congress, which meets once every four years. Besides local, provincial and national civil servants, Abvakabo members work mainly in sectors that are now wholly or partly (…)
, by Xaspel
This is the first social center to operate in Sofia, Bulgaria and the goal behind it is to bring together social, environmental, and political activists that are committed to a better world free of structural, symbolic, and normalized violence.
The center supports initiatives linked to the (…)
, by UHLIR Aleš
Employees of the Hyundai car factory in Nošovice, near Ostrava, in the Czech Republic, went on an unofficial strike on Wednesday 2nd December, 2009. They can no longer stand what they allege are inhuman working conditions in the car factory. The inhuman conditions are caused by the Czech middle (…)
, by Socialist Resistance (Britain)
Thousands of workers employed by construction contractors at oil refineries and power stations across Britain have been taking strike action against an Italian contractor, IREM, which has obtained a contract to build an extension to the Total Lindsey oil refinery at Immingham in the East of (…)
, by UNI-Europa Property services
Konstantina Kuneva, Secretary of OIYE affiliate´s union of Cleaners and Domestic Personnel in Attica, Athens was attacked on the 22nd of December 2008, by unknown persons who threw acid in her face. Konstanina is still in intensive care in hospital.
Konstantina Kuneva is an active trade (…)
, by VOVOU Sissy
The trade unionist Konstantina Kouneva who suffered an attempt against her life with acid dropped on her face, head and left shoulder, the 22nd of December, by unknown perpetrators, has escaped the danger to lose her life, as doctors said. She is still in the Intentive care Unit of an Athens (…)
, by BERNOCCHI Piero
A big general strike today called by Cobas, Cub and SDL and, with completely different claims, by CGIL.
Millions of workers participated, despite for many of them this one was the second or the third strike in less than two months, in a period of heavy economic straits, oppressing all wage (…)
, by VOVOU Sissy
Assassination attempt on the 22/12, at 12 midnight, in front of the house of Konstantina Kouneva, general secretary of the Attica Union of Cleaners and domestic workers, which has 1700 members. Unknown persons dropped acid (of unknown type as yet) on the face, head and shoulder of the 42 year (…)
, by HEIDEL Klaus
The seventh Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) met in Beijing, China, on October 13-15, 2008. This contribution was given to Workshop 12 “Social Security in Asia and Europe - trends and challenges”) of Cluster 2 (“Social and Economic Rights and Environmental Justice”).
Because this paper (…)
, by ANTENTAS Josep Maria, VIVAS Esther
The proposed modification of the current European Working Time Directive, agreed in June by the Employment Ministers of the European Union (EU) and awaiting approval by the European Parliament, represents one step further in the process of greater flexibility of work relations and the erosion of (…)
, by JOHANSSON Tomas
A number of high-profile judicial cases have recently sharpened the question of whether or not the European Union protects collective bargaining agreements on the job market. This issue might be especially relevant to the Nordic countries since the job markets here to a large extent are (…)
, by DEN HOND Chris, PERPETTE Lucien
In November 2007, trade unions in Slovenia organised a major demonstration in their capital city, Ljubljana, to protest the effects of inflation, and to demand cost-of-living adjustments to salaries in this former Yugoslav Republic, which joined the European Union in May 2004.
Ljubljana, (…)
After more than 80 days of occupation the workers of the bike factory Bike Systems in Nordhausen/Thuringia decided to resume production managed in a grass-roots democratic way. The works owned by the American investment company Lonestar had already been to be closed down when the workers (…)
, by TUCKER Greg
In a New Year message, TUC (Trades Union Congress) General Secretary Brendan Barber called for a national debate about top pay, bemoaning the fact that boardroom pay has more than doubled since 2000, whilst it has barely risen for the rest of us. It might have been better if he had recalled the (…)
, by Attac Germany
The altermondialist network attac declared its solidarity with the strikers of the Belgian Volkswagen plant in Forest. After the board of Volkwagen forced the German staff to accept significant wage cuts and subsequently reduced the Belgian production, the Belgian employees called for a mass (…)
, by THORNETT Alan
Within a fortnight two important meetings of rank and file trade unionists have taken place in London. There were a number of similarities between the conference called by the Rail Maritime and Transport union (RMT) on October 28, which attracted 250 delegates, and the one called by Respect on (…)
, by AEDH
Brussels, In spite of the opposition of numerous organisations and european social actors, and in spite of the publication of a white paper on services of general interest, SIG, by the European Commission which underlines that : “The provision of high quality, accessible and affordable (…)
, by AGUIRRE Léonce
Three weeks before the opening of the debate in the European Parliament, the mobilisation against the Bolkestein circular is becoming stronger. Preparations are under way for the demonstration that will take place in Strasbourg on February 11th, three days before the debate in the European (…)
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