Report on the National Strikes at Alcatel-Lucent in France on March 9th
Little information trickles out on what our French colleagues are currently doing. Fortunately, a French coresspondent sent the following report.
In fact we have strikes almost twice each week. But last week, Friday, a national one was done.
Lannion : In the morning, the site was blocked by employees. No car can go in but walking people were able to. Only a very few go to work on this morning. Some students from the IUT came to support us. Some profile boards were installed in front of Alcatel logo to symbolise the fired people.
Orvault : Strike in the afternoon, 218 wood people were installed just in front of the site direction. Some graves for the employees motivation were also set up.
Rennes : 2 sites will be closed (St Gregoire & Cesson). But there is a building in construction for them. So they moved to it with their computers. This ended by a cookout.
Villarceaux : More than 1000 persons from the all Ile-de-France (region around Paris) go to this site. They do some painted people on the floor, still representing the fired
For more informations and pictures (in French) you can go to my blog http://pse-alcatel-lucent.blogspot.com/2007/03/photos-des-actions-du-9-mars.html. I also link some pages from a French union with a lot more pictures.
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