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ACTIONS PAGE
List of
Actions
France:
Update RESULTS:
- In Montpellier,
Nice, Bordeaux huge participation from 50 to 80% of the staff on strike,
demonstations downtown, press and TV coverage.
- Even the two Paris sites
(generally more anonymous and less solidarious) participated in an
impressive manner.
- The national evening news on
TV covered the event largely.
- All the IBM sites in France
participated with strikes going from some hours to the whole day.
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- Marseilles: strike
- Montpellier: strike, demonstration, a picnic offered by
the local work council for all participants, meeting with local
political staff
- Nantes: strike
- Bordeaux: strike
- Toulouse: general assembly in the morning, deciding about
the further proceedings
- Nice/Nizza (La Gaude): call for strike
- Paris (Marne-La-Vallée and Descartes): call for strike
(the local management asked sub-contractors to carry their laptops home
to work from there on Monday, in case the entrances to the office
building are blocked)
- Roubaix (Lille) : Call for a strike by local IBM sections
of unions ;
- Orléans (Sainte-Marie) : local unions call for a sit-in
in front of IBM building ;
- Corbeil-Essonnes : Call for a strike
- Clermont-Ferrand : call for a day strike
- Lyons : call for a day strike
Italy:
- Update
RESULTS:
Good participation to the IBM actions day in
Italy (4 hours of strike), in all our locations.
- High participation in Rome and Milan ( important ibm
location will be closed).
- This was a "garrison" with music, biscuits and
discussions!
- Many workers didn't come in office in the morning
- Also good mobilitation in Vimercate, where the local
council met some politicians...
- In Sicilia (Palermo and Catania) and Napoli a high number
of people participated in the strike: real different result from the
strikes in the past, when here the participation was zero.
- Participation of many colleagues from other subsidiaries
companies, near to us during the strike.
- We had some minutes of interviews, transmitted on two TV
national channels (rai and La7), describing the situation from a labour
unions point of view.
- Also (quite good) presentations of our mobilizations on
three national radio channels.
- Reply from management: None
- 4
hour strike.
- Distribution of joint statement.
Belgium:
- Distribution of joint statement
Germany:
Dusseldorf:
Stuttgart:
- In
IBM headquarters Germany in Stuttgart (and surroundings: Ehningen,
Herrenberg, Böblingen) we've distributed the german translation of the
joint declaration together with an IBM leaflet about "the other IBM" -
with wearing the buttons "No Job Cuts" We've got also
a solidarity message from IG Metall and ver.di collegues from Bosch, a
german automotive supplier. The joint declaration was welcomed by many
collegues!
Japan:
USA:
Nationwide
- Employees wear black & blue .
- Hold
a 10 minute silence on their break.
- Retirees sending email to CEO Sam Palmisano.
USA: Burlington,
VT
The Vermont
Chapter of the Alliance@IBM / CWA Local 1701 issued a "Call for
Solidarity" to Vermont labor and community groups to join us in observance
of the International Day of Action on May 23 to join other international
IBM unions and works councils to protest plans to cut up to 13,000 IBM
jobs worldwide.
Here in
Vermont, we know all too well about the impacts IBM job cuts have on
employees, their families and our communities. A group of Vermont labor
and community activists gathered outside the entrance to the main access
road to the IBM Essex Junction plant to show their support for IBM
employees worldwide and to observe the moment of silence. In addition,
people wore black and blue ribbons and waved signs at passing traffic. The
groups represented were:
- ARA
(Alliance for Retired Americans)
- Alliance@IBM / CWA Local 1701
- IBEW
- AFGE
- Sheet Metal
Workers
- UE
- IUE
- AFT
- Vermont
Workers' Center (Jobs With Justice)
- Vermont
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