As the result of the call by the Telecommunications and IT Services section of the CNT-AIT Madrid for a Day of Solidarity with the CNT-affiliated members and the workers of Capgemini, several trade unions and European sections of the IWA organized different actions to stop the redundancy plan that the management of this company presented against 370 workers.
This Day of Solidarity was called as part of the 24h strike that the subsidized unions organized as part of a program that will conclude, if Capgemini does not withdraw the redunancy plan, in an indefinite strike starting the 23rd of May.
The CNT members of this company participated in this 24h strike, as well as in yesterday´s partial strikes, but taking a critical position with the Legal Representation of the Workers (CC.OO, U.G.T. and CIS-F), whose agreements with the company´s management tolerated a previous redunancy plan the past year and the smaller scale firings that have been happening in 2012 and 2013.
In Madrid, SOV members established an informational picket at the company´s facilities in Alcobendas, giving out leaflets and informing the high number of strikebreakers that went to work. In the rain, the action did not have any incidents, starting at 8.00 a.m. and with the presence of the subsidized trade unions members. The SOV Madrid finished this action not feeling satisfied because of the large number of strikebreakers that are not just working against our interests but, also, against theirs.