jlg france ‘explosion threat’: putting the squeeze on management
19 07 2009
Workers at platform-crane manufacturer JLG in south west France won a 30,000 euro pay-out for each of 53 staff made redundant after three weeks of strike action. The tactics employed by the workers – including blocking a high-speed TGV train in a station and placing gas canisters around four cranes on site, threatening to blow them up – won wide attention in the French press and, as this Sud Ouest article demonstrates, showed the value of determined collective action.
http://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/jlg-france-explosion-threat-putting-the-squeeze-on-management/#
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http://gangbox.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/dynamite-unionism-wins-victory-in-france-american-lift-truck-maker-jlg-agrees-to-pay-decent-severance-pay-to-laid-off-autoworkers-after-they-threaten-to-blow-up-the-factory/
Violence in China: Workers must fight for their own interests
While these events in Xinjiang have undoubtedly caused problems for the Chinese bourgeoisie, witness President Hu Jintao's hasty return from the G8 in Italy, there is no advantage here whatsoever for the working class.
http://en.internationalism.org/icconline/2009/07/unrest-in-china
