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[Sabadell] The end of the strike in the “Casa de les Monges” residence

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The company removed the sanctions on CNT workers, after almost two months of intermittent indefinite strike. On Thursday, November 29 the residence management finally met with the strike committee of CNT. The following points were agreed at the meeting:

The company made a commitment not to lower the salaries of the workers, at least for now.

They will pay the Christmas bonus to workers, on a prorated basis until the Government pays the debts to the company.

The management is committed to dealing with the issues of workers health and safety and will continue to meet regularly.

We are pleased that the company and the workers have reached an agreement directly and without intermediaries.

The union, with this good perspective, has stopped the strike and appreciates the outpouring of support received.

CNT Union "Les Monges"

(More information on this conflict can be found in the IWA External Bulletin no. 3)

CNT will call a general strike on November 14 against the labour reform, cuts and the looting of the working class

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Since the beginning of the economic crisis, the CNT has defended the general strike as the main tool of the working class against the attacks carried out by the banks and the bosses.

We reject the negotiation where the unions called on the government to ease the labour reform after the general strike of March 29. In the same way we have rejected the approach of the so-called social summit, to eliminate only the most flagrant excesses of the PP government, maintaining the core of the economic and political system that has put us in this situation, as well as its attempts to divert and delay the social response with useless proposals like the demand for a referendum.

The hard social situation demands a strong response, one which will grow and continue, which will break the ties with the political and economic system in which it originated, which it benefits and which is complicit with it.

Protests for the Reinstatement of our Comrade and Direct Contracts

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On October 10, the suit against Roche Poland for the reinstatement of our comrade and the payment of lost benefits was to begin. The company had been denying the employment status of IT workers, who had to form their own companies or be fired through third persons who acted as unregulated intermediaries. This is a common practice used to avoid paying workers benefits like paid vacation, sick leave or paying their social security.

Later, IT workers in Madrid and Poland saw their jobs outsourced to outside firms.

Unfortunately the case was postponed. We took the opportunity to remind people of the situation, organizing pickets at the court, the headquarters of Roche in Warsaw and the Poznan office. We had good interaction with the workers.

Thanks to the comrades from the IWA who organized pickets or leafleting in Berlin, Boulogne-Billancourt, Bratislava and Oslo and to all who sent protests!

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