There is no "confectioners' truce" for the class struggle. Salaries,
working conditions - including management - and also making redundancyplans pay as much as possible are still relevant. Whenever possible, itis useful and necessary to take the time to meet the pickets. And to seewith those first concerned what concrete solidarity is possible. ----Since December 26, staff at Mont Saint-Michel Abbey (Manche) have beenon strike to obtain better working conditions. On December 28, guidedtours did not take place, but entry was free for visitors.Ticket office staff want better working conditions, salary increases andadditional hires.An agreement was obtained which involves maintaining and replacing thecurrent workforce and the creation of two additional positions: one inthe abbey shop, the other for the work of technical agent. The unionsalso obtained a rebalancing of salary differences with 50% of the valuesharing bonus to certain agents.It's official: the prefect of the North has announced the closure of theEmmaus community of Saint-André, as of January 3, 2024, due to anomaliesconcerning the security of the building. The question of rehousingworkers is still unresolved. The prefect asks management to ensure theirrehousing. For undocumented workers, there is no question of ending thestrike until they have won their case. This is in reference to thepromise made by the management of Emmaüs Saint-André, promisingresidence permits once three years of work have been completed.A strike picket has been set up since Friday January 12 in front of theTeisseire site in Crolles, in Grésivaudan (Isère) - the site also housesthe headquarters of the syrup manufacturer -. Factory employees complainof management that is considered "brutal".90% of employees at the Bergerac (Dordogne) and Agen (Lot-et-Garonne)sites of Inéo, a GRDF subcontractor, were on strike on January 10. Theycriticize their management for new schedules and holidays imposed in thesummer.Some of the employees of the MSSA chemical products factory inPomblière-Saint-Marcel (Savoie) went on strike on January 5 to denounceunworthy working conditions.They camp in front of the gates of MSSA Métaux Spéciaux. Around sixtyemployees started a strike to raise awareness of the glaring safetyproblems at the chemical plant. The Force Ouvrière union has recordedaround fifty accidents in 2023, some of which are very serious, withworkers seriously burned and hospitalized in Lyon. The employees held upimages of the victims. They are unbearable, especially those of theircolleagues burned by lithium or sodium.Since January 9, the SEMOP Agglo'bus transport network (the only urbantransport network in Guyana) has been suspended. The agents are onstrike. They denounce the absence of an emergency button in the newbuses, "too many" sanctions against drivers and the lack of socialdialogue. These are demands that have been on the table for years.This is the first time that employees of the Free operator have been onstrike in Reunion. They denounce in particular poor working conditions.Of the 18 stores that the telephone operator has in the department, onlytwo were open on December 21, 2023. The cause of this frustration:"unjustified mobility", according to the Sud Télécom Réunion Mayotteunion. After two days of strike, an agreement was reached on the 23rdbetween the employees part of the commercial force of the operator Freeand the company's management.Around sixty Valdunes employees from the Leffrinckoucke andTrith-Saint-Léger sites gathered on January 17 in front of theLille-Métropole commercial court. Several deputies also made the trip.As a reminder, the Valdunes factory is the last in France to manufacturetrain wheels and axles. It has around 320 employees spread between aforge in Leffrinckoucke, near Dunkirk, and Trith-Saint-Léger, nearValenciennes, where wheels and axles are manufactured.A strike began on January 17 at the logistics site of the furniturebrand Conforama, the Saint-Georges-d'Espéranche site in Isère, as partof a reorganization which will lead to the closure of the warehouse andthe elimination of 78 positions.The objective is to "leave as dignified as possible". Two meetings areplanned to discuss the consequences, compensation and possiblereclassifications.A large part of the 220 employees of the aeronautical branch of AirLiquide in Sassenage walked off the job on January 16 in order to obtainbetter departure conditions for the Safran group, to which theiractivity was sold.It is the conditions of the transfer that pose a problem. For the CFDT,"for 2024 the loss amounts to around 1,400 euros of contribution" interms of participation, and employees, "especially the most modest",will lose the advantages of a CE "very active on the site of Sassenage.On the other hand, the management would only offer "1000 euros grossarrival bonus", a "departure" bonus in fact, or a "transfer". Whateverthe name, "the account is not there", for the CGT. It was really animmediate concern and "the feeling of being unappreciated" which,according to her, pushed the employees to walk off the job.End of strike at Alstom Belfort. The unions signed an agreement withmanagement on January 12, putting an end to the movement that beganthree days earlier. They were protesting against the reduction in thenumber of RTTs, from 23 to 12, for certain workers and technicians. 295employees were affected in total.Negotiations opened on January 17 on the issue of RTT. "We must notdeceive ourselves, we will not find 23 days, but we can still hope tohave more than 12," believes the CFE/CGC union delegate. He alsowelcomes the opening of negotiations on time slots and "a bonus of 100euros for all people who work at the Belfort factory", workers ortechnicians.The unions nevertheless say they are ready to resume the strike andactions if the discussions are not satisfactory.Tango agents demanded the maintenance of their achievements within theframework of the next transport market in Nîmes Métropole. During afirst strike on December 16, all urban lines did not run all day.Since January 8, 2024, Tango network bus drivers have been off duty oncea day from 7:15 a.m. to 8:15 a.m.The inter-union demands that the Agglomerate make written commitments onmaintaining its social achievements while the name of the futuredelegate will be known on February 26.On January 15, the inter-union met the president of the Nîmesmetropolitan area and his chief of staff. "We contacted the twooperators still in the running for the public service delegation. Weasked them to provide a document which would guarantee our social pactand the current subcontracting volume which is 50%. RATP and Kéolisaccepted this approach" affirms the CFDT union delegate. The strike istherefore suspended from January 17 and, once this written document hasbeen received, the inter-union announces that it will definitively stopthe social movement.Around a hundred Recipharm employees, the equivalent of almost half ofthe site's workforce, strolled on January 11 in the streets of Monts,south of Tours. A march organized almost two months after theannouncement of the closure of the site planned for mid-2025.The aim of this approach was to show the determination of employees tomaintain pressure so that Recipharm and the government find a buyer. Theemployees are demanding from the pharmaceutical group an officialdocument ensuring the maintenance of all salaries until the resumption,or failing that the closure planned for 2025.A strong mobilization Friday morning, December 22 in the streets of Gaël(Ille-et-Vilaine), a small town of 1,600 inhabitants on the borders ofMorbihan and Côtes d'Armor. Around 150 people, local elected officialsand employees of the Easydis platform, a subsidiary of Casino, marchedthrough the streets from the warehouse to the town hall. A staff walkouttook place at the same time. This platform, the only one in the west forCasino, employs 200 people. While the stores of the mass distributioncompany, which is drowning in debt, are in the process of being boughtout, the future of the platform is very uncertain.An unexpected strike by French employees of Eurotunnel, the companymanaging the Channel Tunnel, caused the temporary closure of the work onThursday December 21. Many trains have been canceled. The negotiationsbetween the unions and the management of the company, regarding a bonus,were "bearing results", according to the inter-union association. Worktherefore gradually resumed at the start of the evening, resuming in atense climate after three weeks of strike at ArcelorMittal Dunkirk. Thestrikers did not win their case in the annual salary negotiations, at atime when resignations are increasing at the steel giant.Employees of the Center Pompidou Beauboug extend the strike notice untilFebruary 15, 2024. The social movement, which started on October 16,2023, hardened, leading to the complete closure of the publicestablishment from December 23 to January 5 and the doors remainedclosed until Sunday January 7....Here in the UK we have seen the biggest wave of strikes in decades,with hundreds of thousands of people involved in industrial action, manyfor the first time. Yet virtually all of these strikes ended in defeatsand in wage agreements that were still below the rate of inflation. Theunions have clearly failed to keep their promises, actively sabotagingthe struggles. One sign of hope was the action of oil rig workers in theNorth Sea. They organized a strike committee, independent of unionstructures, and carried out two wildcat strikes on 19 platforms. Thisbore fruit, with the conclusion of new collective bargaining lastDecember. Unions tried to dissuade workers from taking wild action, andthen, usually, claimed victory! North Sea workers have provided ashining example of how strikes can be carried out successfully. Theselessons must be heeded by all workers who enter into struggle. They mustrely on themselves and create their own independent organizations suchas strike committees and mass assemblies. (Communist Anarchist Group ofGreat Britain).Germany: A three-day rail strike and angry farmers have brought thecountry to a standstill. Train drivers were called to strike fromJanuary 10 to 12 evening over their salaries and working hours, at thecall of the GDL union, after the failure of negotiations with the publicoperator Deutsche Bahn (DB) . The DB had planned "massive" disruptions,recommending travelers to "avoid all unnecessary travel" during the strike.Travelers hoping to fall back on the car are also disappointed. SinceMonday January 8, thousands of farmers have been protesting against thegovernment's agricultural policy. Convoys of tractors are blockinghighway entrances across the country. Farmers have been expressing theiranger since December against the government's decision to cut subsidiesto the sector due to a call to order from constitutional judges overGermany's strict budgetary rules.Salary Insubordination 20 01 2024http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4088_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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