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For a militant March 8th! All out for International Women's Day!
The International Automotive Workers' Coordination calls:
Philippines: MWAP - Workers urgently need wage hike, economic relief
10 February 2021 Close to a year into the country’s community quarantine and more than a year into the global pandemic, Filipino workers and their families are mired in deepening poverty due to unabated rise in prices of basic commodities, loss of jobs and continuing spread of COVID 19.
Declaration of solidarity for the colleagues of PSA Kenitra (Morocco)
Dear colleagues, On behalf of the spokespersons for international group cooperation at PSA, GM and FCA we send you fraternal greetings! You have taken up the struggle for your justified demands for higher wages and better working conditions. The Moroccan state has sent the military to end the strike. This shows on which side this state is on. But the reasons for your struggle are still there. We workers learn not to be intimidated and to organize our struggle better and better. This requires international cooperation and solidarity is necessary. We have been working for many years with colleagues, with colleagues, workforces and trade unions all over the world, exchange experiences and support each other. We invite you to become part of our coordination! Together we will be stronger than the bosses of the corporations! Long live the just struggle of the brothers in Kenitra! Long live the international solidarity! For the group of spokesmen Fritz Hofmann
Congratulation on courageous strike at PSA Morocco
Colleagues, As coordinators of the International Automotive Conference, we congratulate you on your courageous strike! You are an example for all PSA employees! It is intolerable that this multinational Stellantis group (PSA with Fiat-Chrysler) pays such scandalous salaries. Your demands are absolutely justified. We will inform the PSA-workers all over the world and call for solidarity for your struggle. Good luck! on behalf of the coordinators Fritz Hofmann Germany
Strike at PSA in Kenitra (Morocco)
On January 27, the 2500 employees of the new PSA plant in Kenitra (Morocco) went on strike. They handed over a list of demands to the management. The central demand is an increase in wages from the previous 240 euros for a 6-day week. They are also demanding, among other things, work suits and on-the-job medical care. PSA has the Peugeot 208 produced in a free zone near Rabat and plans to increase capacity from 90,000 to up to 200,000 vehicles.
Netherlands: Metall CBA: Who will not listen, must feel
Documented from Rode Morgen 1 February 2021: Next step: a sector-wide strike with a nationwide demonstration Thursday, January 21 began the relay strike for a better collective bargaining agreement in the Metal-Electro-industry. Since September talks on a new CBA have been ongoing - without result.
Stop the Closure of All Ford Plants in Brazil!
The Ford Co announced on January 11, 2021 their decision to end vehicle production at its three plants in Brazil in 2021. The Camaçari (BA) and Taubaté (SP) plants will be closed immediately, according to the company, maintaining only the production of parts for after sales stocks. These closures have a devastating impact on the workers. 3,500 employees work at the Camaçari plant, 830 at Taubaté plant and 470 at Horizonte plant. At least another 15,000 outsourced workers in and out these three plants will be fired.
Declaration of solidarity to our Brazilian Ford colleagues
Dear colleagues
Ford Info Letter 1-21, EN January 2021
Dear colleagues, dear friends, The current situation Latest news: Ford closes all 3 factories with 5,000 jobs in Brazil. Workers in struggle and broad solidarity
International solidarity against fascist coup attempt in the USA!
Publication of the ICOG on the handing over of the presidency of the USA to Joe Biden on January 20, 2021: Already on January 6, armed fascist groups wanted to keep the ex-president of the USA, Donald Trump, in power with a coup by storming the Capitol in Washington. The strings were clearly pulled by Donald Trump. He had to backpedal a bit due to public pressure afterwards, but continued to defend his inciting speech as "appropriate."
International Automotive Workers Coordination mourns the death of Busisiwe Modasakeng
The mayor of Sedibeng District Municipality in South Africa, Busisiwe Modasakeng, died on January 8 related to Covid-19. Our sympathy and condolences extend from the bottom of our hearts to the Modasakeng family, her colleagues* and her organization the African National Congress (ANC).
We are mourning the death of Jürgen Wolf
We are mourning the death of Jürgen Wolf, who passed away related to Covid-19 on 5th of January. Jürgen was closely connected with the Opel workers from Bochum, their struggle and the international automotive workers' movement for decades. The colleagues of "Offensiv", the initiative for militant workers council work at Opel in Bochum, write: "To us at OFFENSIV he was an indispensable advisor, helper and good friend from the very beginning.
Good luck, power and health in the New Year 2021 !
We look forward to a militant and successful year 2021 ! The International Coordination Group expresses its sincere thanks for the good cooperation in 2020. In February our successful 2nd International Automotive Workers Conference in Vereeniging in South Africa was a significant and unforgotten highlight and signpost for the years to come. Good luck, power and health in the New Year 2021 !
Gratitude and Season's Greetings from Belarusian Congress of Democratic Unions Trade Unions (BKDP)
22 December 2020: Dear Brothers and Sisters, On behalf of all its members the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (BKDP) expresses its deep gratitude to all national trade unions and international workers’ organizations, individual citizens, civil society associations and NGOs, all those who have expressed and provided solidarity support and continue doing it to trade unions and their members and to all freedom-loving people in Belarus fighting for freedom and democracy.
International Information Letter GM-PSA-FCA No.19 - December 2020
Dear colleagues and friends! In the Corona pandemic interacting with the world economic and financial crisis and the environmental crisis, we auto workers are challenged not only to defend our jobs, but to unleash the workers offensive against the rightward evolution of governments and the excesses of the whole crisis chaos of capitalist systems!
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