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Solidarity With the Workers of Atento, Against the Planned Reductions

Workers at the call center – help desk giant Atento from several unions, including the CNT, are on strike today in Spain against planned reductions. More than 800 workers are expected to lose their jobs, although the firm plans an increased workload in the near future and is currently recruiting.

Atento is the second largest firm in this industry and had well over 2 billion dollars in revenue last year. It employs 155,000 workers in 16 countries. The firm was created about 15 years ago when the company Telefonica decided to transfer their call center and other services to a new company that it would own. In 2012, it was bought by Bain Capital, a US holding company, co-founded by Mitt Romney. Bain decided to float the company this year and, in order to make the company more attractive to investors, they decided to cut the workforce. At least 823 jobs will be cut in Spain.

While cuts are planned, an increased work load is expected, as some tasks sent to Latin America will be sent back to Spain. In general, the workers have been complaining about increased workload since Bain Capital took over in 2012. Median salaries in Atento Spain are about 750 euros per month.

The redundancy plan is now in a 30-day consultation period and strikes are planned throughout the month. The IWA would like to express its solidarity with the workers against the corporative greed of those who will destroy more jobs and squeeze more work out of those still employed to make even more money. We send special greetings to the comrades of CNT in Madrid and Leon who are unionized in Atento. At times like this, syndicalists can be targetted so we wish them much strength for the upcoming struggle.

NO TO THE ERE AT ATENTO!

Dominos Pizza: We Condemn your Actions

The IWA condemns the actions of a Domino's Pizza in Vigo, Spain, which has unfairly dismissed Emilio, a long-term employee with no previous problems at work. After working there for 9 years, the company decided that the unionist must go and dismissed him for an alleged small theft in the restaurant. The CNT union considers that this allegation was made as a pretext and to avoid eventual compensation they would have to pay for unfair dismissal.

The CNT has been picketing Dominos in response and on July 7, this case comes to court.

We are sending a notice to Dominos that a conflict with the CNT is a conflict with all of us. If this situation is not resolved, we will mobilize ALL OVER THE WORLD. You have already seen us do this. DO NOT TEST US AGAIN BECAUSE WE WILL NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS AGAINST OUR MEMBERS.

Dominos Pizza, enough is enough!
Reinstatement for Emilio NOW!
Immediate compensation for all time he was without work!
Stop the harrassment of employees!

International Day of Action against Repression, June 28

Social struggle is not a crime! Solidarity against repression!

We want to express our support and solidarity with Carlos and Carmen, who participated in the Granada 15M picket during the General Strike on March 29, 2012 in the state of Spain and who were convicted to three years and one day imprisonment for their participation in this picket.

For the General Strike in Spain on March 29, 2012, the Granada 15M movement organized an informational picket that swept the streets of the city calling for solidarity with the day of strike. Carlos and Carmen were randomly identified by the police out of a bar where the picket had entered. During this picket there were no violent attitudes or threats and, in fact, the picket continued its passing by Granada and the bar was not closed. The bar owner filed a complaint and some months later a trial began in which the prosecutor asked for an "sentence to set an example, not only for them but also so that none else comes up with similar things". Finally, the judge sentenced Carlos and Carmen to three years and one day imprisonment for an alleged "crime against the right of workers". Following the conviction, an appeal was brought to the Granada Provincial Court, but this upheld the verdict based only on the testimony of the bar owner.

In recent years in Spain, repression against social movements has developed from fining participants in social protests into sentencing them to imprisonment. Meanwhile people live in a context of insecurity and spending cuts, while the government introduces law reforms meant to stop social struggle.

And we cannot allow it.

We call on every city to go out onto the streets on the 28th of June to follow the protest evoked by this repression and injustice.

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Jornada Internacional de Acción Antirepresiva, 28 de junio

La lucha social no es delito, frente a la represión, solidaridad!!!

Queremos expresar nuestra apoyo y solidaridad con Carlos y Carmen, participantes del piquete del 15-M de Granada en la Huelga General del 29 de Marzo de 2012 convocada en el Estado español, y condenados por su participación en este piquete a 3 años y un día de prisión.

En la Huelga General convocada en el Estado español el 29 de Marzo de 2012, el 15M de Granada organizó un piquete informativo que recorrió las calles de la ciudad pidiendo solidaridad con la jornada de huelga. Carlos y Carmen fueron identificados aleatoriamente por la policía a la salida de un bar de la ciudad en la que el piquete había entrado, durante éste no se dieron actitudes violentas ni amenazas, y de hecho el piquete continuó su transcurrir por Granada sin que el bar llegara a ser cerrado. La propietaria del local presentó una denuncia y meses más tarde comenzó un juicio en el cual la fiscalía pedía una “sentencia ejemplarizante, no sólo para ellos sino para que a nadie se le ocurra hacer nada parecido”. Finalmente el juez condenó a Carlos y a Carmen a 3 años y un día de prisión por un supuesto “delito contra el derecho de los trabajadores”. Tras la condena se interpuso un recurso a la Audiencia Provincial de Granada, pero esta ratificó la sentencia, basándose únicamente en los testimonios de la propietaria del bar.

En el estado español, durante los últimos años, la represión a los movimientos sociales ha pasado de multar a las personas por participar en protestas sociales, a meterlas en prisión por el mismo motivo. Todo en un contexto de precariedad y recortes para el pueblo y unas reformas legislativas del gobierno encaminadas a terminar con la lucha social (la Ley de Seguridad Ciudadana, la reforma del Código Penal, la Ley de tasas judiciales, etc.).

Y no podemos permitirlo.

Hacemos un llamamiento para que salgamos en todas las ciudades el 28 de junio a seguir la protesta por esta situación de represión e injusticia.

Anarcosindicalistas de todo el mundo contra Banco Santander

Nueva jornada de movilizaciones de la AIT contra la represión y el tráfico de trabajadoras de Banco Santander, Isban y Panel Sistemas.

El pasado 5 de junio se producía una nueva demostración de solidaridad internacionalista y de clase frente a las agresiones de las multinacionales dirigidas por Emilio Botín. Numerosas secciones de la AIT demostraban que el verdadero sindicalismo es el que hacen las propias trabajadoras al margen de cualquier dirigente, organizadas de forma horizontal y sin subvenciones públicas ni privadas.

Es ya la cuarta jornada de apoyo de los sindicatos de la AIT al conflicto comenzado en agosto de 2013 por el Sindicato de Telecomunicaciones y Servicios Informáticos de la CNT-AIT de Madrid.

Conflicto Abierto con Portinox

La CNT-AIT de España informe que hay un conflicto abierto con la empresa Portinox, perteneciente al grupo Teka, debido al despido del delegado sindical de CNT Granada despedido por realizar su labor sindical en esta empresa. La Asociación Internacional de los Trabajadores apoya las demandas para la readmisión inmediata del delegado.

Informamos tanto Portinox y el grupo Teka que no tenemos ninguna tolerancia para la represión sindical y este tipo de represalias. Ustedes pueden esperar protestas continuas contra su empresa hasta que se resuelva la situación.