A-Infos (en) France, OCL CA #336 - Pay insubordination 336 (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

In this section we leave a large part to the internationalist union 
actions which attempted to prevent arms deliveries to Israel. In 
February, we will return to the workers' strike that has been going on 
for 2 years in front of the Chronopost site in Alfortville (94). ---- 
Justice finally condemned on November 20 the four unions SUD, CGT, FNCR 
and CFDT of Tisséo to jointly pay a fine of 15,000 euros for having 
blocked two bus and tram warehouses last May as part of a strike. ---- 
The American e-commerce specialist was affected by a strike on Friday 
November 24 in around thirty countries, including France, the United 
States and Japan, with its employees demanding better working conditions 
and pay. , in the middle of "Black Friday".

Delivery workers mainly working for Uber Eats were called for a national 
strike on December 2 and 3 to protest against a new pay system.
According to the union Union Indépendants, which is supporting this 
national strike with the CGT and SUD Commerces & Services, the average 
income of people who work for the platform has fallen by 10 to 30%.

Employees at the Dunkirk-Mardyck sites (59) have gone on strike since 
the start of salary negotiations on December 4. The employees are 
demanding a salary increase of 300 euros. But according to the CGT, 
after the failure of the first negotiations, the management of the 
Dunkirk site requested the Prefecture to requisition five striking 
employees. A first in the history of the factory!

Since the end of November, the entire public service - schools, 
hospitals, social services - has been at a standstill in Quebec. Unheard 
of in fifty years. In total, nearly 600,000 civil servants stopped 
working; some are engaged in a continuous strike, others, notably united 
under the aegis of a "Common Front" made up of several public sector 
unions, are increasing the number of walkouts.
As part of the renegotiation of collective agreements specific to each 
branch, the salary issue is at the heart of the demands. The Common 
Front is demanding a 23% increase in employee salaries over five years.

ended on the evening of December 12. A memorandum of understanding was 
signed by the town hall, Capa and the STC around the purchasing power 
bonus. The STC obtained an increase of 4% on the average salary and an 
increase in the lowest salaries.

After 78 days of strike, Onet employees at Montpellier University 
Hospital obtained a bonus and the end of room-by-room traceability of 
their work!
If negotiations for a thirteenth month are still in progress, they have 
obtained from management an exceptional bonus of 650 euros for all.
But what triggered the strike was above all the establishment of a 
traceability system: employees had to clock in after cleaning each room. 
They will now only have to badge once, at the entrance to the service.

This is the first time in its 18 years of existence that the agents of 
Le Vaisseau, the scientific culture center in Strasbourg, have decided 
to stop work on November 22. One of them describes a failing 
organization but above all a real climate of fear: "Many agents feel in 
a situation of distress. The management has installed a real 
institutionalization of fear. There is screaming in the hallways on a 
fairly regular basis. There are agents who are victims of verbal attacks 
and there are also sanctions which are taken arbitrarily.»
The general management of services of the European Community of Alsace, 
on which the Vaisseau depends, announced for its part an internal audit 
and the opening of an administrative investigation concerning the acts 
of harassment.

The postmen of Poitiers are angry. Every Monday since the beginning of 
December, most of them no longer respond to their superiors, to warn 
about the reorganization of the Post Office in 2024. They fear having to 
distribute advertising, which would make their bicycle tours more difficult.

According to data available on the government website, updated on the 
morning of December 6, 22% of service stations were in difficulty in 
Val-de-Marne, 21% in Seine-Saint-Denis and 20% in Hauts-de-Seine. By 
difficulties, we must understand that the establishment was unable to 
provide at least one type of fuel.

After 147 days of strike by around twenty workers, all in an irregular 
situation and who have been denouncing "human trafficking" and "hidden 
work" since the beginning of July, around twenty police officers 
intervened on November 23 at Halte Saint Jean, the Emmaüs warehouse in 
Saint-André-lez-Lille. According to the Northern prefecture, this is not 
an expulsion but an operation "aimed at putting an end to disturbances 
to public order and obstruction of traffic". The fellow strikers were 
summoned to the police station on the 27th, they would be interviewed 
one by one.
As a reminder, on November 8, the Lille court had already requested the 
release and stopping of the blockade of the Halte Saint Jean in an 
order. Six striking Emmaüs companions, a committee of undocumented 
workers and the CGT had been taken to court.

The CGT, which supports the fellow strikers, denounces "a 
responsibility" of the Prefect of the North and an "action of 
intimidation". According to the strikers' spokesperson, two members of 
the community were sent to hospital.

On December 14, a memorandum of understanding was signed between 
management and employees of SPL Estival in charge of public transport in 
the municipalities of La Cirest (Saint-Benoît, Bras-Panon, Saint-André, 
Salazie, la Plaine- des-Palmistes and Sainte-Rose in Reunion). The 
latter obtained that no layoffs would take place during the upcoming 
social plan.
Employees were able to retain all SPL jobs. In return, the salaries of 
around fifty staff will be reduced in order to cope with the financial 
difficulties of the structure. "Our first demand was "zero layoffs", 
indicates the spokesperson for the inter-union, but the employees are 
not responsible for the financial situation of SPL Estival", he insists. 
Employees are now waiting to find out more about what led SPL Estival to 
this deficit of 3 million euros for the structure.

Half of these centers, managed by Mutualité 64 (hearing, optical and 
dental activities), affiliated with Mutualité Française, were also 
closed on December 18 throughout the department: in Bayonne, Cambo, 
Mauléon, Lons, Orthez or Pau. The CGT denounces a layoff plan and the 
announced closure of the Mauléon center in 2024.

Salary Insubordination 12/21/23
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Following the urgent appeal from the Federation of Palestinian Trade 
Unions (published in CA 335 of November), we report some information on 
the international days of action of November 9 and 10, against aid to 
Israel's arms. This may seem symbolic, derisory, but these are the tools 
that workers have to assert their class solidarity. -Decaen 25 11 2023-

The Electronics & Defense research center of the Safran company in 
Malakoff[Hauts-de-Seine], Elbit, a French multinational aeronautical and 
military company, which designs war drones with the Israeli firm, was 
repainted in bright colors on the night of the 7th. to December 8, in 
solidarity with Palestine, and against militarism. A tag "Disarm the 
war, Free Palestine" appeared on the facade. In 2022 France exported the 
equivalent of 34 million euros of weapons equipment to Israel.

Hundreds of workers and citizens closed the L3Harris sites in Hamilton, 
Toronto & Montreal, and Lockheed Martin in Ottawa, four arms factories 
that trade with Israel. "We are acting in solidarity with the 
Palestinian people here and abroad, but also, more broadly, against 
colonialism and in support of the indigenous people of Turtle Island," 
said a striker from L3Harris Waterdown, Canada.

Activists and supporters sealed off the entrances to GeoSpectrum in 
Dartmouth, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, a leading arms supplier to Israel.
Actions also targeted the offices of ZIM shipping, the main Israeli 
logistics company, in Vancouver, and of Boeing in Winnipeg.
More than 400 unionists blocked the entrance to the BAE System factory 
in Rochester. British industry - which includes the blocked site - 
"supplies 15% of the components in the F35 stealth fighter jets 
currently being used in the bombing of Gaza."
A thousand people demonstrated outside the Department of Health and 
Social Services in the UK, calling for an end to military training with 
Israel and an immediate ceasefire.

Five people were arrested after a group of pro-Palestinian protesters 
occupied the roof of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh to hang a 
banner: "Stop arming Israel". The British government has delivered more 
than $400 million worth of weapons to the Jewish state since 2015.

Italy
After Livorno then Naples, dockers from the port of Genoa, as well as 
hundreds of students, pacifists and activists blocked the entrance to 
the port to prevent the passage of the ZIM ship and demonstrated in 
solidarity with the Palestinian people, in front of the ZIM offices, 
with the slogan "the war begins here" "we stop the ships of death".

Australia

Trade unionists prevented the loading of a delivery from the ZIM company 
in Narrm/Melbourne.
Workers established an incredible line of solidarity across land and sea 
to disrupt apartheid shipping company ZIM's delivery into Sydney 
Harbour, including using jet skis.

United States

Trade unionists and activists demonstrated outside the offices of 
Raytheon, one of several arms manufacturers headquartered in Southern 
California, to demand that the United States government call a 
ceasefire, at the end of private military contracts between Raytheon and 
the Department of Defense, and that the United States stops arming the 
Jewish state.
Union workers and protesters shut down Colt's weapons manufacturing 
facility in West Hartford, Connecticut, which supplies weapons for 
Israel's genocidal war in Gaza.

Workers at Airbus, Getafe, Spain, demonstrated inside the factory with a 
banner reading "Airbus workers stand in solidarity with Palestine, no to 
arms sales to Israel."
Trade unionists and activists demonstrated in front of the Israel 
Chemical Limited (ICL) mine. They denounced the company's role in the 
massacres perpetrated in Gaza. ICL supplies Monsanto (now Bayer) with 
phosphate for the production of white phosphorus which is then sold to 
Pine Bluff Arsenal (PBA).
Unions representing all workers at the port of Barcelona signed the 
Palestinian unions' appeal, declaring that they would not transport 
weapons to Israel and demanding an immediate ceasefire.
In response to the Days of Action, Kayed Awad, general secretary of the 
Palestinian Transport Union said: "We salute the dock workers in 
Barcelona, Geneva, as well as the transport workers in Belgium for 
refusing to transport and handle weapons used to commit war crimes in 
Gaza, and for calling on all unions campaigning for freedom and justice 
to do the same. Unions have the power to influence and prevent the arms 
trade and war crimes being committed in Gaza. Long live the working class."
"Palestinian workers are on the front lines in Gaza, saving lives and 
caring for communities amid incessant Israeli bombings and war crimes. 
We continue our duty and warmly salute those who act and work tirelessly 
to prevent the arms trade with Israel." said Samira A.A. Hasanain, 
member of the General Union of Public Service Workers - Gaza (and board 
member of the General Union of Palestinian Women (GUPW).
"The Palestinian unions thank everyone who participated in the Days of 
Action on November 9 and 10 to end arms sales to Israel. Every group 
that blocks a weapons factory or prevents a weapons delivery saves 
lives." said Nadia Habash, President of the Palestine Engineers Association.

For more information:
agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2023/11/13/des-syndicats-de-six-pays-differents-empechen-les-ventes-darmes-a-israel/

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