tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14093399953742072812024-03-05T18:17:22.841-08:00WORKERS' CONTROLThis site is about all aspects of Workers control of industry.If you think how your workplace is managed is
crap join the Discussion Forum.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-48819157943394578722009-07-29T15:18:00.000-07:002009-07-29T15:19:20.616-07:00Vestas Occupation<a href="http://savevestas.wordpress.com/">http://savevestas.wordpress.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-57845826662065303332009-07-29T15:12:00.000-07:002009-07-29T15:13:51.498-07:00Occupations, workers' control, and workers' government: readings<a href="http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2009/07/28/occupations-workers-control-and-workers-government-readings">http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2009/07/28/occupations-workers-control-and-workers-government-readings</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-36205609438169597622008-10-06T13:21:00.000-07:002008-10-06T13:22:29.885-07:00Pamphlet on Workers' Control<a href="http://thecommune.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/workersmanagement.pdf">http://thecommune.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/workersmanagement.pdf</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-74523149705739048072008-08-02T04:39:00.001-07:002008-08-02T04:39:42.882-07:00Paul Hampton on Workers' Control<a href="http://www.workersliberty.org/node/6046">http://www.workersliberty.org/node/6046</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-20706533612959531692008-03-28T05:45:00.000-07:002008-12-11T11:48:31.986-08:00Scottish Conference<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh54upj01mHOxvECPkRm0FHt9HkwctaUwjoVO3vEFUpg20696Mxif8ztwX4ctn54Yi5OmYoRmeZ9Sm2d1NpvnlcvvgA5oRTuUi1Fo9wrFCld_rWbQQU2Y5QdvhXJIxKzfFTMepUeepKXwNi/s1600-h/Shelterpicketthmb.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh54upj01mHOxvECPkRm0FHt9HkwctaUwjoVO3vEFUpg20696Mxif8ztwX4ctn54Yi5OmYoRmeZ9Sm2d1NpvnlcvvgA5oRTuUi1Fo9wrFCld_rWbQQU2Y5QdvhXJIxKzfFTMepUeepKXwNi/s200/Shelterpicketthmb.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182773489073891426" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>Scottish Conference</strong><br />12 April, 11am - 3pm, UNISON Offices, Albion St., Trongate, Glasgow<br />Speakers include: Phil McGarry (RMT Scottish organiser), Sam McCartney (UNISON convenor),Dave Chapple (CWU branch chair), Pauline Bradley (UNISON steward), a Glasgow Day Care striker<br /><br />For leaflet:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.shopstewards.net/">http://www.shopstewards.net/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-30517072328144644622008-03-28T05:40:00.000-07:002008-03-28T05:41:13.353-07:00China Report<a href="http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2008/03/20/beijing-olympics-and-class-struggle">http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2008/03/20/beijing-olympics-and-class-struggle</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-5454548065732057312008-02-25T08:30:00.000-08:002008-02-25T08:31:12.789-08:00Egyptian workers step upEgyptian workers step up<br /><br /> <br />The class struggle in Egypt, rising since 2006, has reached a new pitch in the last week.<br /><br />On Sunday 16 February, more than 10,000 workers from the Misr (Egypt) Spinning and Weaving Company textile mill in the Nile Delta city of Mahalla el-Kubra, north of Cairo, staged a mass demonstration against prices rices, low wages and the regime of Hosni Mubarak, joined by thousands more working-class people from the town. The Mahalla workers' action was followed by similar, smaller-scale protests across Egypt.<br /><br />The Mahalla factory, which employs 27,000 people, has been the site of huge workers’ struggles since December 2006, when nearly the entire workforce went on strike over withheld bonuses. In September last year, 15,000 workers were on strike again over profit-sharing, safety and bonuses, leading to a confrontation with riot police; and there have been struggles over issues including services at the company hospital and the provision of free bread to workers. <br /><br />The difference this time is that the workers’ action has been much more directly political. In previous struggles, there were appeals to Mubarak’s government to intervene; on Sunday, according to California-based journalist and blogger Hossam el-Hamalawy (one of the very few sources about strikes in Egypt), workers shouted slogans including "Down, down Hosni Mubarak! Your rule is shit!"<br /><br />The spark for this protest was the convening, in the context of big increases in the price of basic commodities, of the National Council of Wages, which sets Egypt’s minimum wage. The minimum wage has been held at not much more than £3 a month since 1984, despite soaring inflation; the Mahalla workers have demanded £112 a month, while the representatives of Egypt’s official trade unions on the Council have been calling for £55. Including profit sharing, a Mahalla worker currently makes about £40 a month. The government has now announced that the rate will be raised to about £25, making further protests very likely.<br /><br />When protests began in the factory last Sunday, the bosses once again called in riot police, but the workers stormed the gates and drove them off before marching into town. Their slogans on the march also included "We are sick of eating beans while the rich eat chickens and pigeons" and "Gamal Mubarak, tell your dad we hate him!" (a reference to Mubarak’s son and heir apparent).<br /><br />This inspiring class struggle has enormous significance. The textile workers are in many ways the vanguard of the Egyptian working class. The December 2006 strike was followed by action in many other sectors – including rail workers, nurses, cement workers, binmen and tax collectors. Cairo’s leading independent and broadly liberal newspaper, al-Masri al-Youm, estimates that 226 sit-ins, strikes, hunger strikes and workers’ demonstrations took place in 2006; Hamalawy estimates 387 actions in the first six months of 2007.<br /><br />This time, the Mahalla struggle was followed within the next few days with action by other textile workers, by Suez Canal workers, electricity company lawyers and nurses, as well as by working-class protests against housing costs.<br /><br />Moreover, this is the first time that large-scale workers’ demonstrations have raised clear anti-government slogans since the bread riots against the regime of Anwar Sadat in 1977. And the entry of the working class onto the political stage means that Mubarak is being challenged from the left, and not just by the deeply reactionary Muslim Brotherhood. According to Hamalawy, last week’s action was fomented by left activists inside Mahalla (which is not to say that the Muslim Brotherhood has no influence among the workers, of course).<br /><br />All this signifies a clash between by far the biggest Arab working class and a deeply oppressive regime which is one of the US’s key allies, receiving $1.3 billion dollars a year in military aid, for instance. It means that both Egypt and Iran, the largest economies in the Middle East, are wracked by class struggle – holding out the prospect, distant but real, of workers’ revolution to sweep away all the region’s ruling classes, whether pro or anti-US.<br /><br />As Hossam el-Hamalawy put it in September: "During my phone conversations with the strikes leaders and activists inside the company, they always ask me if people in America and the world have heard about the strike." We need to make sure the world knows, and that its labour movements mobilise solidarity.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-60828310265344393732008-01-24T06:29:00.000-08:002008-01-24T06:30:30.892-08:00History of American Trotskyism Audio FilePut your headphones on -sit back -and listen<br /><br /><a href="http://www.trotskyism.org/audio/index.htm#trainor">http://www.trotskyism.org/audio/index.htm#trainor</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-74994165523924301182007-12-13T13:13:00.000-08:002008-12-11T11:48:32.108-08:00Attack on Chinese Labour activist<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG4A31Agbs42tp242s3FvG4purpuejs31gD3pXRtasgutqAQnRX4Mr4PZrMOBygOnx2-f9RHROa0m4lujtMFWGKb3pWQt1acZrl-cwb7sVxgV55CbHqHNbb8ZgTuWFeqoZNeyk8tw-SMfh/s1600-h/20071208__biz_chinaside_1209~1_Viewer.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG4A31Agbs42tp242s3FvG4purpuejs31gD3pXRtasgutqAQnRX4Mr4PZrMOBygOnx2-f9RHROa0m4lujtMFWGKb3pWQt1acZrl-cwb7sVxgV55CbHqHNbb8ZgTuWFeqoZNeyk8tw-SMfh/s200/20071208__biz_chinaside_1209~1_Viewer.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143568992712930050" /></a><br />Chinese labor activist Huang Qingnan was attacked and stabbed repeatedly, and... (Interlocals.net )<br /><a href="http://www.sltrib.com/ci_7671025?source=email">http://www.sltrib.com/ci_7671025?source=email</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-77294192976630366172007-12-13T13:08:00.000-08:002007-12-13T13:09:23.391-08:00Essential Site<a href="http://www.labourstart.org">http://www.labourstart.org</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-20001382537940755212007-11-07T06:46:00.001-08:002008-12-11T11:48:32.969-08:00Repeal Anti-Union Laws campaign<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ1DFC0Gtxo6NIxi2n4Kj4E9u48Zzre5as1x-1_nzq9ERfCyaWR8NF1LiTNnAYMBc_bfnhNfcs8sCF14K6k6dVyJ_OhoDjtgBssVbNRNzbJOzVxOhznDxtwvWfpXQWq7jmDXLlQIqab20Z/s1600-h/logo.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ1DFC0Gtxo6NIxi2n4Kj4E9u48Zzre5as1x-1_nzq9ERfCyaWR8NF1LiTNnAYMBc_bfnhNfcs8sCF14K6k6dVyJ_OhoDjtgBssVbNRNzbJOzVxOhznDxtwvWfpXQWq7jmDXLlQIqab20Z/s200/logo.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130110225382149554" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.unitedcampaign.org.uk/">http://www.unitedcampaign.org.uk/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-32308411681656013762007-11-06T04:46:00.001-08:002007-11-06T04:46:59.807-08:00Discussion Forum<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/workerscontrol">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/workerscontrol</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-47637387218022257662007-11-03T10:11:00.000-07:002007-11-03T10:14:43.800-07:00Engels on Trade Unions pdf<a href="http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Articles_from_the_Labour_Standard.pdf">http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Articles_from_the_Labour_Standard.pdf</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-47908643823591275932007-11-02T12:54:00.000-07:002007-11-02T12:55:23.894-07:00France- University occupationsThere's stacks of info on the website of SUD-Etudiant, the student section of the left-wing SUD trade union centre - <a href="http://www.sud-etudiant.org/">http://www.sud-etudiant.org/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-27017098646127613712007-11-02T05:44:00.001-07:002007-11-02T05:44:53.427-07:00Rank and File postie site<a href="http://cwurankandfile.wordpress.com/">http://cwurankandfile.wordpress.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-38847917101865246102007-10-28T12:57:00.000-07:002007-11-02T12:57:54.332-07:00Shop stewards conf-Glasgow<strong>Scotland</strong><br /><br />Saturday 1 December<br />11am to 5pm<br />Quality Central Hotel<br />Hope Street<br />Glasgow<br />Speakers include:<br />Bob Crow (RMT and Janice Godrich (PCS)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.shopstewards.net/NSSNleaflet_Layout%201.pdf">http://www.shopstewards.net/NSSNleaflet_Layout%201.pdf</a><br /><br />Leaflet at <a href="http://www.shopstewards.net">www.shopstewards.net</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-67359376920754636002007-10-28T12:05:00.001-07:002007-10-28T12:06:54.544-07:00Trade Unions and the First International<a href="http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/trade-unions/index.htm">http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/trade-unions/index.htm</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-49620902826729714332007-10-28T12:00:00.000-07:002007-10-28T12:01:30.159-07:00Marx on Trade Unions<a href="http://www.marxists.org/history/international/iwma/documents/1866/instructions.htm#06">http://www.marxists.org/history/international/iwma/documents/1866/instructions.htm#06</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-76625191259535006852007-10-28T11:56:00.000-07:002007-10-28T11:57:34.290-07:001891 Introduction by Frederick Engels<strong>Twentieth Anniversary of the Commune</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/postscript.htm">http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/postscript.htm</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-30879772633043417252007-10-21T11:41:00.000-07:002008-12-11T11:48:33.256-08:00French Workers Strike Back — 18 October<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbI2s1EcFfxWH3zutz1KvlP3fPRIBqNTZzGl0GE28kqx6pSjs8-6M5f7eZuKk_gP7mN2vNvgtI3AxxRXy8PZfYosdJWJMnXb4-V4IuurG8VU2kvhvuNkOY6ZNNNUeCc-GB2dZXl1nAt66Y/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbI2s1EcFfxWH3zutz1KvlP3fPRIBqNTZzGl0GE28kqx6pSjs8-6M5f7eZuKk_gP7mN2vNvgtI3AxxRXy8PZfYosdJWJMnXb4-V4IuurG8VU2kvhvuNkOY6ZNNNUeCc-GB2dZXl1nAt66Y/s200/untitled.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123862432621885922" /></a><br /><strong>French Workers Strike Back — 18 October</strong><br /><br /><br />Author: Ed Maltby<br />French rail, gas, and electricity workers are striking on 18 October over pensions, privatisation and their right to strike. The new right-wing French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has bitten off more than he can chew.<br /><br />So desperate is Sarkozy to prove himself to right-wing voters and his party, the UMP, he plans to destroy as quickly as possible all of the gains won by French workers since the war; gains which the French working class has been able at least partially to defend throughout the 1980s and 90s, while other European workers were suffering a series of defeats.<br /><br />Sarkozy wants to break the strength of the railway workers’ unions, and strip transport and energy workers of their “special regimes” — a raft of pension benefits won decades ago, which allow workers to retire at 55 on a full pension. The last time a minister tried to do that was in 1995, when Alain Juppé's attacks on these workers resulted in a month of massive strikes and a major victory for the unions. Sarko’s vaulting ambition may be catapulting him straight towards a replay of that battle.<br /><br />The unions who organise workers on the state rail company (SNCF) and Paris public transport (RATP) haven’t forgotten the lessons they learned in 1995. Although many older workers have retired since then, the new workers who were still at school in 1995 are militant and as organised.<br /><br />Tensions have been since Sarkozy’s government decided in August to close 268 stations and shift their freight capacity on the rails. Workers were also angered by new “minimum service” legislation, which attacks the right to strike by obliging individual workers to tell their boss 48 hours before a strike whether or not they will be taking part.<br /><br />Mass meetings have been held at workplaces across France, with very high attendances. At a recent such “general assembly” at the Quatre-Mares depot in Rouen, 450 workers out of a total of 750 were in attendance. The final straw came in September, when Sarkozy announced his intention to break the “special regime”. <br /><br />Sarkozy is also copying the press strategy of the Brown government and the Metronet bosses, by trying to drive a wedge between passengers and rail workers. He has publicly attacked “privileged railwaymen” who are “taking the rest of us hostage”. French workers and socialists reply that it is the government who are causing the real disruption: by gutting public services and attacking workers’ right to strike, and it is they who are “taking the rest of us hostage”!<br /><br />The electricity (EDF) and gas (GDF) company workers announced in September that they too would be joining the rail workers in going out on strike on 18 October. They too will be hurt badly by an attack on the special regimes. Moreover, following the part-privatisation of both of these companies, forcing them to compete with each other, hundreds of jobs are being cut, or moved into insecure employment in call centres as the companies “rationalise”. Energy workers have announced that they will strike together to defend public services and employees’ pensions.<br /><br /><strong>One theme which runs throughout the build-up to this strike is grassroots worker self-organisation. It is the workers themselves who are organising general assemblies, making the political arguments about public services and the right to strike; and forcing their union bureaucracies into action. The unions which organise the energy workers, for example, have said nothing about privatisation or public services: their only complaint to the government is that the proposed pension changes have “not been negotiated”.</strong><br /><br />It is the grassroots militants who are driving this campaign and giving it a political character. They have forced the unions into action, and they have forced the CGT to call a demonstration on 18 October.<br /><br />We should support these strikes, and learn from them: that the bosses must not be allowed to divide passengers and workers; and that only solid grassroots organisation can create fighting unions and deliver political change — not union bureaucraciesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-74557037596143358632007-10-09T06:26:00.000-07:002007-10-09T06:27:23.089-07:00Shop Stewards Network<a href="http://www.shopstewards.net">www.shopstewards.net</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-28243897580391926752007-09-30T12:00:00.001-07:002007-09-30T12:00:46.238-07:00New website for public sector pay battle<a href="http://www.unionsfightback.org.uk ">http://www.unionsfightback.org.uk </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-51347050354871927542007-09-30T11:55:00.000-07:002008-12-11T11:48:33.448-08:00Egypt: 15,000 workers strike and occupy giant factory - and win<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTuU2jkqf7esC-Etzp2dDMBdJmIPuec-gWLcKgDDcffasHexohTYkEyQmy52GE3GOOug9OMPH8LwPaZ2mJIECRSx1Kpg9hNO6FP7d9QRXc1nsOco6Y23oo9RsApjpn7SyV6PhYm5nVGeSc/s1600-h/Image(205).jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTuU2jkqf7esC-Etzp2dDMBdJmIPuec-gWLcKgDDcffasHexohTYkEyQmy52GE3GOOug9OMPH8LwPaZ2mJIECRSx1Kpg9hNO6FP7d9QRXc1nsOco6Y23oo9RsApjpn7SyV6PhYm5nVGeSc/s200/Image(205).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116073535200393634" /></a><br /><strong>Author: Traven Leyshon</strong><br /><br />Hossam al-Hamalawy, an Egyptian blogger, journalist, and labor activist currently at Berkeley's School of Journalism, is reporting on his blog that 15,000 workers at the Ghazl al-Mahallah textile factory in Egypt have gone on strike.<br /><br />Ghazl al-Mahallah is the biggest textile factory in the Middle East, with over 27,000 workers comprising its total labor force. Workers have occupied the factory, including men, women, and their children, and the numbers are increasing during the daytime. Even retired workers in the area are showing up at the compound to join in solidarity. Details.<br /><br />Most troubling, Hamalawy reports that the Egyptian Labor Minister, Aisha Abdel Hadi, and the General Federation for Textile Workers (a government union), have declared the strike illegal, basically opening up the way for police to bust it, probably violently. Details.<br /><br />This is a hot and developing story, and to my knowledge, no Western news outlet has yet to cover it. I've just spoken to Hamalawy on the phone, and he tells me that his contacts at the strike are asking if labor organizations or media in the West have begun reporting on the story, as they need it desperately to empower themselves vis-a-vis the government, which may act soon to crack down on the strike, and the company. Details.<br /><br />The workers are calling for: (details).<br /><br />1) Impeachment of the company's board chairman<br />2) Impeachment of the Factory Union Commitee officials<br />3) Linking monthly incentives to a fixed percentage of the monthly salary<br />4) Increasing the food allowance to match rising food prices<br />5) Raising salaries to match inflation<br />6) Paying workers the 130-day as as part of their annual share of profits<br />7) Solving the transportation crisis<br />8) Paying a housing allowance to the workers<br /><br />According to Hamalawy, attention, support, and coverage are urgently needed at this point. Hamalawy is able and willing to give interviews to any journalists or activists who wish to cover this story (he worked for the LA Times in the past, and recently gave an interview about Labor in Egypt to KPFA's Flashpoints program), and can also provide journalists with sources in Egypt.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-31797668807207620912007-09-26T11:27:00.000-07:002007-09-26T11:32:10.708-07:00Occupation in East GermanyReal protest in a virtual world<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Pictured: UNI activist<br />taking a break from the protest.<br /> <br />As we mentioned earlier this month, Italian trade unionists who work<br /> for IBM have taken the use of the Internet further than ever by organizing<br /> a global protest inside the virtual world of Second Life. <br /> <br />We were prevented until now from giving you the details of this <br />extraordinary event, but can now tell you that /*tomorrow */(27 <br />September) the protest will take place. <br /> <br />Those of you who are not registered users of Second Life can still take<br /> part by signing an online petition. <br /><br /><br /><br />Details at <a href="http://www.uniglobalunion.org/UNIIBITSn.nsf/0/210907_EN_4B">http://www.uniglobalunion.org/UNIIBITSn.nsf/0/210907_EN_4B</a><br /><br /> <br />_*Strike bikes*_<br /> <br />Since 10 July, 135 workers have been occupying a bicycle factory in<br /> east <br />Germany. The factory is threatened with closure at any time, but the <br />workers have decided not only to occupy it, but to attempt to manage it<br /> <br />themselves. <br /> <br />They have begun to produce what they call "strike bikes" and urgently <br />need to have 1,800 of these ordered by 2 October -- next week. <br /> <br /> <br />You can't read it here, but it actually says "Strike Bike" on the<br /> frame. <br /><br /> <br />According to one newspaper report, they already had 1,000 orders. This<br /> <br />bold attempt to save jobs by trying to run a factory better than the<br /> old <br />private managers could is worthy of all our support. If you can, order<br /> <br />a bike. If not, send them a message of support. Full details on the <br />Strike Bike website <br />><a> <http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=900256&msgid=45921&act=YPZJ&c=154875&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.strike-bike.de%2F></a> <br />in 9 languages.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1409339995374207281.post-33206209972642558112007-09-25T07:09:00.001-07:002007-09-25T07:09:36.433-07:00The Right to Strike in France.<a href="http://droitdegreve.wordpress.com/">http://droitdegreve.wordpress.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0