The Heinrich Böll Foundation is closely affiliated with Germany's Green Party, which has positioned itself against outsourcing and temporary work. That turns out to be a farce when you look at the Heinrich Böll Foundation's practices. Temps working there make less money than if they were employed directly and the workforce has been split between those with contracts and without. And after temps started organizing themselves, their entire agency was kicked out. We are thus calling for an international week of action against outsourcing and union busting by the Green Party's Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Workers there who joined the FAU Berlin and made this scandalous state of affairs public in May are no longer welcome at the Heinrich Böll Foundation, who conveniently decided to change temp agencies to rid themselves of the problem. In Germany, employers cannot normally kick out workers so easily, but thanks to outsourcing the Heinrich Böll Foundation had an easy time of it: If the temps raise their voice, we'll change the contractor. We call what the Heinrich Böll Foundation is doing union busting and demand that they give those they kicked out permanent contracts with standard wages.