Solidarity

In the section Solidarity, the EMF posts letters of solidarity from trade unions in Europe and around the world.

03/10/2008

Solidarity archive

Solidarity addresses from 2006 and 2007 can be found in this section.

08/09/2008

Solidarity with the workers at Boeing

During the 37th Grand Lodge Convention in Orlando, Florida of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) a global request for solidarity with Boeing workers in the United States was published.

Convention website.

06/08/2008

Solidarity with the workers at Siemens across Europe

Main EMF information page about what is going on at Siemens including letters of solidarity with workers at Siemens and news updates from around Europe.

10/07/2008

Solidarity with the shipyard workers in Malta

Letter of solidarity with the shipyard workers in Malta.

29/05/2008

Protest at GM Strasbourg Powertrain plant in France

Yesterday, information meetings were held at the GM Strasbourg plant in France, which each of the unions represented at the plant had organized to provide the status of negotiations and the strong opposition to the planned job redundancies of 168.

02/05/2008

SPMK, Kosovo: Workers' protest in Prishtina – call for help

Thousands of Kosovo workers protested yesterday on 1 May for more rights for the first time after the war in Kosova . The protest was about rights to work, social dialog, and the privatization process. Thousands of people joined the protest and all requests have been submitted to the Kosovo Government.

01/05/2008

Turkish Government Decisive to Prevent May Day Demonstrations In Taksim Square

Clashes in all small and big streets in a triangle between Taksim, Mecidiyekoy and Karakoy started at 07.30 am . At the end of day the officially declared number of arrested peoples peaked to 517.

12/03/2008

Labour Unions Mass for General Strike in Slovenia on 12 March

A broken social accord by employers’ groupings in Slovenia has caused the nation’s largest trade union federation, Zveza Svobodnih Sindikatoc Slovenije (ZSSS), to call a mass strike for this Wednesday, 12 March. The strike, which could bring up to 200,000 workers and their families to the streets and eclipse Slovenia’s largest mass strike ever, on 17 November 2007, will be joined by union members from other Slovenian national trade union centres.

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