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  • Bellaciao convened in court after the publication of the French union USM-CGT statement (St Nazaire), France
    6 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On Friday, 12th may 2006, Bellaciao is convened by a judge in the court of Saint Nazaire.
    The « Shipyards of St Nazaire » filed suit for slandering after the publication on the Bellaciao collective website of a statement from the French union USM-CGT on 16th September 2005 entitled «Piracy of modern times», consultable here
    Since the "Shipyards of St Nazaire" do not contest the facts, but use the words of the French union (…)

  • Worker-to-Worker Solidarity Committee to AFL-CIO: Cut All Ties with NED
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Kim Scipes
    On March 6, over 50 union members from several unions and activist allies picketed the headquarters of the AFL-CIO in Washington, DC., to demand that the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center immediately break off all ties with the misnamed National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
    The NED is a leading component of the US Government’s efforts to maintain the US Empire, and the Solidarity Center is one of the NED’s four "core institutes," along with the international wings of the (…)

  • Anger at Peugeot decision to quit Britain
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Anger at Peugeot decision to quit Britain
    · Unions blame weak labour laws for loss of 2,300 jobs · Workers hear of closure on the news before being told
    Mark Milner and Paul Lewis Wednesday April 19, 2006 The Guardian
    Britain’s hard-pressed manufacturing base received a new blow yesterday when the French carmaker PSA Peugeot-Citroën said it was pulling out of the UK, closing its Ryton car factory at Coventry in the West Midlands with the loss of 2,300 jobs.
    The news, which threatens (…)

  • VENEZUELA : The Revolution Must be Intensified!
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An interview with Orlando Chirino, National co-ordinator of the new Venezuelan workers union UNT
    Orlando Chirino is the national coordinator of the new Venezuelan workers’ union UNT, a member of its classist trend, and also leader of the Committee to Promote the Construction of the Revolution and Socialism Party, which is currently being formed in Venezuela.
    Franck Gaudichaud: A few weeks ago, the sixth World Social Forum (WSF) was concluded. A part of this polycentric WSF was held for (…)

  • France’s political crisis grows as 3 million take to streets
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
    Police fought running battles with rioters in central Paris last night as youths attacked officers with bangers, bottles and concrete at the end of a mass demonstration against a youth employment law that has caused a political crisis for Jacques Chirac’s ruling party.
    Trade unionists and student leaders said up to three million people took to the streets across France yesterday - the second time in eight days that the country has seen its biggest street (…)

  • from france
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    More than 3 000 000 protesters today !
    Join us !
    Stop liberalism
    Total strike
    A great day

  • Well Exercised and Supple, French Unions Flex Muscles
    3 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By CRAIG S. SMITH
    PARIS, March 28 - Armed with hot dogs and baguettes, balloons, buttons, banners and, of course, gallons of red wine, France’s major trade unions set out Tuesday to change the law, or to bring down a prime minister trying.
    Responding to their rallying cry, more than a million people showed up in the streets, marching in the familiar protest parades that the unions sponsor from time to time. In Paris, the slow-moving street fair stretched for miles.
    "The unions haven’t (…)

  • Transit workers are fighting for us all
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Union struggle is about the top issues for most Americans: health insurance and a secure future
    BY GENE CARROLL
    Gene Carroll is the director of the Union Leadership Program at Cornell University, New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations, in New York City.
    Back in December, when those 34,000 pesky bus and subway workers who belong to Transport Workers Union Local 100 in New York City walked off the job, the news media and local government traffic managers from Riverhead (…)

  • ONE MILLION WALK OUT BRITAIN’S BIGGEST DAY OF ACTION SINCE 1926 GENERAL STRIKE
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Strike protests in Paris and London
    By Philip Johnston
    It was the best of strikes and it was the worst of strikes.
    Across Britain and France millions of public sector workers stopped work, in the former to protest about pension reforms and in the latter to block new youth employment contracts.
    But whereas in Britain the day was marked by nothing more revolutionary than picket lines and rallies, in France it ended with clashes on the streets. In Paris, where 700,000 marched, police (…)

  • French Union Threatens Strike Over Labor Law
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JAMES KANTER
    PARIS - Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin of France faced an ultimatum from union leaders today to withdraw the employment law that set off huge nationwide demonstrations and sporadic violence over the weekend or face a general strike.
    After the protests ended in outbreaks of violence late Saturday, union leaders gave Mr. Villepin a deadline of Monday evening to withdraw the First Employment Contract, which was intended to make it easier for businesses to hire and fire (…)