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List of Actions
France:
Update
RESULTS:
- In
Montpellier, Nice, Bordeaux huge participation from 50 to 80% of the
staff on strike, demonstations downtown, press and TV coverage.
- Even
the two Paris sites (generally more anonymous and less solidarious)
participated in an impressive manner.
- The
national evening news on TV covered the event largely.
- All
the IBM sites in France participated with strikes going from some hours
to the whole day.
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Marseilles: strike
- Montpellier:
strike, demonstration, a picnic offered by the local work council for
all participants, meeting with local political staff
- Nantes:
strike
- Bordeaux:
strike
- Toulouse:
general assembly in the morning, deciding about the further proceedings
- Nice/Nizza
(La Gaude): call for strike
- Paris
(Marne-La-Vallée and Descartes): call for strike (the local management
asked sub-contractors to carry their laptops home to work from there
on Monday, in case the entrances to the office building are blocked)
- Roubaix
(Lille) : Call for a strike by local IBM sections of unions ;
- Orléans
(Sainte-Marie) : local unions call for a sit-in in front of IBM building
;
- Corbeil-Essonnes
: Call for a strike
- Clermont-Ferrand
: call for a day strike
- Lyons
: call for a day strike
Italy:
- Update
RESULTS:
Good participation to the IBM actions day in Italy (4 hours of strike),
in all our locations.
- High
participation in Rome and Milan ( important ibm location will be closed).
- This
was a "garrison" with music, biscuits and discussions!
- Many
workers didn't come in office in the morning
- Also
good mobilitation in Vimercate, where the local council met some politicians...
- In
Sicilia (Palermo and Catania) and Napoli a high number of people participated
in the strike: real different result from the strikes in the past, when
here the participation was zero.
- Participation
of many colleagues from other subsidiaries companies, near to us during
the strike.
- We
had some minutes of interviews, transmitted on two TV national channels
(rai and La7), describing the situation from a labour unions point of
view.
- Also
(quite good) presentations of our mobilizations on three national radio
channels.
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Reply from management: None
- 4
hour strike.
- Distribution
of joint statement.
Belgium:
- Distribution
of joint statement
Germany:
Dusseldorf:
Stuttgart:
- In
IBM headquarters Germany in Stuttgart (and surroundings: Ehningen, Herrenberg,
Böblingen) we've distributed the german translation of the joint
declaration together with an IBM leaflet about "the other IBM"
- with wearing the buttons "No Job Cuts" We've
got also a solidarity message from IG Metall and ver.di collegues from
Bosch, a german automotive supplier. The joint declaration was welcomed
by many collegues!
Japan:
USA:
Nationwide
- Employees
wear black & blue .
- Hold
a 10 minute silence on their break.
- Retirees
sending email to CEO Sam Palmisano.
USA:
Burlington, VT
The Vermont
Chapter of the Alliance@IBM / CWA Local 1701 issued a “Call for
Solidarity” to Vermont labor and community groups to join us in
observance of the International Day of Action on May 23 to join other
international IBM unions and works councils to protest plans to cut up
to 13,000 IBM jobs worldwide.
Here in Vermont,
we know all too well about the impacts IBM job cuts have on employees,
their families and our communities. A group of Vermont labor and community
activists gathered outside the entrance to the main access road to the
IBM Essex Junction plant to show their support for IBM employees worldwide
and to observe the moment of silence. In addition, people wore black and
blue ribbons and waved signs at passing traffic. The groups represented
were:
- ARA (Alliance
for Retired Americans)
- Alliance@IBM
/ CWA Local 1701
- IBEW
- AFGE
- Sheet Metal
Workers
- UE
- IUE
- AFT
- Vermont Workers’
Center (Jobs With Justice)
- Vermont AFL-CIO
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