Overview: International protests at Alcatel-Lucent
When french unions announced one week ago a two hour strike for february 15th, nobody could anticipate the international response. Within days the french strike transformed into some kind of an international protest, challeging the management plans for massive lay-offs.
The Alcatel-Lucent Vision - To enrich people's lives by transforming the way the world communicates - went into reality in a surprising manner. The ruthless lay-offs announced by management last friday lead to spontaneous reaction of unions and employees, which might be a starting point to overwhelm the traditonal separation and competition between national unions and different sites.
The speed of the emerging and the international spread of activities, protests and strikes is quite impressive. A surely incomplete overview of 15th february action day includes:
- France - 2 hrs strike from 9:30 am to 11:30 am organized by a joint committee of all five unions at Alcatel-Lucent, reported in TF1.fr Read the leaflet calling for strike Contre un seisme social programme et premedite, nous devons riposter massivement! (french version as pdf file)
- Spain - 2hrs strike. Union members organized a surprised visit to Pat Russo at 3GSM tradeshow in Barcelone. Read more
- Belgium - 30 minutes strike at 11 am. Read the leaflet We must swiftly and massively react on the announced social massacre (english version)
- Germany - 30 minutes information meeting organized from local works council in Nuremberg and leaflet distribution at all sites from union "IG Metall". Read the leaflet Nein zu Massenentlassungen - GBR-Info 15. Februar 2007 (german version) or the local version for Nuremberg site (german version)
- Italy - joint union committee will organzie a nationwide leaflet distribution and activities despite the fact, that the have for specific reasons already signed a agreement about the conditions for retirement. Read the leaflet 15 Febbraio 2007: Action day (italian version)
- Netherland - leaflet distributed to all desk of employees by a joint union and works council committee. Read the leaflet BOOK KEEPERS IN POWER! (english version) or BOEKHOUDERS AAN DE MACHT! (dutch version)
- USA - the union express their solidarity and will organize some activities (as they can't call for a strike by law at this time). Read the Message from US-Union CWA or in French
Leaflets, declaration etc. are documented on a ongoing base in the folder Inside the company
Update: 2007/02/15 at 6 pm Central European Time
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