The 9 + 1 Unhealed Wounds of Education

Statement by Yiorgos Georgiou, AKEL Political Bureau member and MP

AKEL C.C. Press Office, 5 November 2018, Nicosia

The summer showers in education were overcome temporarily. The storm, almost certainly, is coming. The major issues of education remain unsolved. And the wounds plaguing the education system remain open.

When shall we talk about these problems?

• About the effective streamlining of public education, far from serving any economistic approaches. About the establishment of a school full of joy and creativity without the stress imposed by an exam-centred system which the policy of exams every four months conveys. About a pedagogically correct assessment of teachers and school pupils.
• About the crude procedures and fragmented health and safety measures.
• About the special education that is in a shameful state for our society.
• About the increasing, at an alarming rate, incidents of violence and delinquency, which are addressed with the allocation of meagre funding and inadequate mechanisms.
• About the feeble Technical and Vocational Education that is incapable of meeting school pupil’s real needs.
• About the Evening Lyceums and Technical Schools functioning on 1980’s specifications.
• About the New Appointee System that victimizes thousands of young graduates, killing their dreams of a dignified job. What will happen to the 5,000 people employed with the abhorrent purchase of services system?
• About the provision of student care which is being drastically cut when hundreds of students are being forced to abandon their studies.
• About the serious incidents and rise of nationalism-chauvinism in our education system.
• Finally, the Ministry shouldn’t forget that it is also the Ministry of…Culture. How much does it honor its name? The government’s depressing funds allocated for culture confirm that it considers it to be of secondary importance. Expenditure on the Arts and Letters, theatre, cinema, state libraries and other infrastructure projects are inadequate in the Ministry of Education and Culture budget for yet another year.

Our children’s education and training are suffocating because of the improvisations, communication game handlings and the Anastasiades – DISY government’s lack of a vision.

We, together with other social and educational forces, will contribute with our proposals in jointly shaping the common vision for the real Cypriot school of the future.

Our country and children need culture badly.

AMTRAK WORKERS, RIDERS, UNION LEADERS BLAST PROPOSED PLAN TO SLASH JOBS AND SERVICE

October 9^th, 2018

Contact: Denise Romano, 202-826-7072

New York, NY: More than 100 Amtrak workers, union leaders and supporters vowed Tuesday to fight Amtrak CEO’ Richard Anderson “tooth and nail” to stop massive layoffs and service cuts.

Anderson already eliminated full dining-car service on two lines earlier this year and is looking to eliminate the popular customer amenity on routes across the country.

Approximately 1,700 working men and women could lose their jobs.

“We are going to fight him tooth and nail,” said Transport Workers Union of America President John Samuelsen. “We will have an ugly fight to meet the same ugliness he is bringing to Amtrak passengers.”

At a rally across from New York’s Penn Station, union leaders and riders stated that it appears Anderson is purposely putting the railroad into a death spiral. Eliminating dining car service means riders who pay hundreds of dollars – and higher – for tickets get served cold boxed lunches.

“I’ve worked under a number of CEOs, and until Anderson arrived on the scene, I’ve never saw anyone so hell-bent on destroying the system,” said Amy Griffin, a veteran food service worker and president of TWU Local 1460. “It’s not right for workers and not right for passengers. If he thinks we are going to let him get away with that – he’s got another thing coming.”

Amtrak ended full dining-car service on the Capital and Lake Shore Limited lines in June. Some workers were offered lower paying positions or jobs requiring them to relocate their families.

Amtrak rider Jeffrey Jones said Anderson is making the railroad more and more unappealing.

“Anderson should focus on expanding service, not cutting,” said Jones. “Nobody wants to eat a cold, boxed lunch. He is ruining the unique experience that comes with riding a long-distance train. What Anderson is doing is totally ludicrous. Expand Amtrak lines and service – if you build it, we will come.”

The affected Amtrak workers are represented by three unions, depending on the region: the Transport Workers Union (TWU), UNITE HERE and the Transportation Communications Union (TCU/IAM).

Complete comments from the press conference and rally:

John Feltz, Railroad Division Director of the Transport Workers Union of America: “President Anderson plans on outsourcing 1,700 Amtrak jobs from my brothers and sisters. First, he eliminated full dining-car service from the Capitol and Lake Shore Limited lines and now he is proposing this. As he slices and dices Amtrak, he is not only ruining quality of service for passengers, he is turning middle class jobs into junk. Anderson thinks he can run Amtrak like an airline, nickeling and diming customers. This is a national railway and we won’t sit idly by while this robber baron CEO takes away our jobs and diminishes service.”

John Samuelsen, International President of the Transport Workers Union of America: “This is part of an ugly national trend: disinvestment in our transit systems. He is treating the Amtrak system like a fast-food restaurant. It’s not a fast-food restaurant; it’s our national railway system. We are going to fight him tooth and nail. We will have an ugly fight to meet the same ugliness he is bringing to Amtrak passengers.”

Donald Boyd, Secretary-Treasurer of UNITE HERE Local 43:  “Look at this display of solidarity. This is what you will get when you try to outsource. We will not stand around and let Amtrak take these jobs away from us. This is not the way we travel. This is not the Jimmy John express with panoramic views. These brothers and sisters on the railroad work very hard to keep it going. We will fight until the end. United we stand.”

Jack Dinsdale, National Vice President of the Transportation Communications Union / International Association of Machinists (TCU/IAM): “This attack on workers and long-distance trains is not about funding a national passenger railroad system, it’s about cutting employees, cutting long distance trains and putting people back in their cars. Amtrak is a customer service company, and that company is the employees. The employees who offer passenger service, passenger satisfaction and hot cooked meals. It’s time to recognize the hard workers at Amtrak for what they are and support them.”

Amy Griffin, President of Transport Workers Union of America Local 1460:  “I’ve dedicated my entire working life providing high-quality service to our passengers. During my time at Amtrak, I’ve worked under several CEOs, and until Anderson arrived on the scene, I never saw any one so hell-bent on destroying the system. When he cut dining-car service, employees were forced to either relocate from their homes, start careers all over again in another position, or stop working for Amtrak altogether. Passengers are getting the shaft, too – paying hundreds and hundreds of dollars for cold food served in a cardboard box. It’s not right for workers and not right for passengers. If he thinks we are going to let him get away with that – he’s got another thing coming. Thank you for supporting our national rail service and the workers who make it ride.”

Wilson Johnson, Transport Workers Union of America member for 19 years: “I work as a Lead Service Agent, started out as a cleaner and worked my way up to dining car. I love it. I love what I do. This isn’t something I do occasionally, I do it every single day – and Amtrak has been good to me, until now. When I came here they said I was family, but Mr. Anderson, you don’t put family on the street. We love what we do, and Mr. Anderson can’t take that from us.”

Dean Devita, Secretary-Treasurer, Director of Commuter/Passenger Railroads, National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, 32BJ-SEIU:“Two weeks ago, my major concern about Amtrak was replacing full dining-car service with a boxed meal. An injury to one is an injury to all. What happens to them? What will happen to the rest of us? My question to the folks who are making this decision is: Do you eat a boxed lunch, or do you eat in restaurants where they are served? Why are you treating our members like this and why are you treating your guests like animals with a boxed lunch? How can you treat your guests so poorly? When business starts treating customers poorly, to me, they don’t want to be in business anymore. Are they trying to eliminate Amtrak? Today we stand with service workers, with Amtrak customers and when we fight, we will win.”

Jed Dodd, Vice President of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees-IBT:“Bringing you solidarity and friendly greetings from behalf of the 30,000 members of our union. We will stand with you doing anything necessary to protect these jobs. Right now, we have time for talking. But when the time for talking is done and it’s time to stop the railroad, we won’t be in front of you, we won’t be behind you, we will be beside you. We won’t go back until the job is done with results to the satisfaction of the workers and Amtrak customers.”

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The Amtrak Service Workers Council (ASWC) is comprised of three unions representing Amtrak service workers: The Transport Workers Union of America (TWU), UNITE HERE and Transportation Communications Union/IAM (TCU/IAM).

SECOND CONGRESS OF THE WFTU´s TUI OF PENSIONERS AND RETIREES

12 Sep 2018 The event will take place on 27 and 28 February 2019 in the City of Bogata, Columbia

Comrades:
It is a great pleasure to appeal for your attendance to the forthcoming Second Congress – we are sure it will be a successful event – of the tenth TUI (the most recently created) of the WFTU, that of the most veteran trade unionists.

Pensioners and Retirees´TUI was born by agreement of the 16th Congress of the WFTU held in Athens on April of 2011, by incorporating Comrade George Mavrikos, as Secretary General, to the congressional conclusions, the proposal made by the Spanish state delegation concerning this matter. Before this, between the proposal and its collective acceptance, Comrade Mavrikos proposed a gathering of all Pensioners and Retirees actually attending the 16th Congress of the WFTU. The attending Pensioners and Retirees considered the initiative correct and we became the promoter group of the First Congress that was finally held in Barcelona in February 2014.

In any case we must admit that there were doubts, in the 16th Congress of the WFTU, among some congressmen, as to whether the decision was correct, for never before in the history of unionism had there been an TUI of Pensioners and Retirees.

Today we appeal to the celebration of the Second Congress convinced that the proposal was not only correct, but also necessary (for the good defense of the rights of the working class) and made at the right time. Today, Pensioners and Retirees still need to be better organized in order to prevent the deterioration of their living conditions while making real the slogan of our TUI: “LONG AND DIGNIFIED LIFE FOR PENSIONERS AND RETIREES!!!”

In the Second Congress we will complete the content of this slogan on the basis that five minimum items for a decent life must be reached all around the world: 1) Drinking water in the house; 2) Sufficient and healthy food; 3) Proper housing; 4) Free Health, Culture and Transportation means of quality; and 5) Retirement at age 60,

with a public pension that allows workers to enjoy the aforementioned minimums.

Capitalism in the current stage, eager to keep its growing imbalances and to cover the increasingly huge expenses of the imperialist wars that it promotes and wages, goes from crisis to crisis (because they are systemic and structural as a natural part of the whole system), that its leaders are trying to overcome. For this aim they need to increase the exploitation of man by man, and seek new financial capital to support their decisions, patches or temporary remedies to prolong the life of the decaying, and, sooner than later, deceased, capitalist society.

In this current process they have discovered the existence of large, immense amounts of money, which were accumulated in the Public Pension Funds established by the states from the mid 1950´s (when the working class, with its struggle, took away the right to retirement, extending to the capitalist world what had been a reality for decades in the countries that built socialism).

They began this new project by testing in Chile, with the logical support of Pinochet´s government and the gang of fascists who, helped and financed by the US CIA, violently overthrew the elected and socialist president Salvador Allende. In this test they had the collaboration and help provided by the yellow unionism (which received a few supplementary subsidies). The ICFTU (today ITUC) supported the proposal by helping to deceive Chilean wage earners: they promised that with the passage of Public Funds to Private Funds their first pension would be 100% of the last salary as active workers, instead of being 70% that was the amount charged at that time (1970s decade).

Today, 40 years later, the big lie and its consequences have been proven, Chileans are retiring, charging, on average, 35% of their last salary as active workers. But the members of the Boards of Directors of the Private Funds (including many leaders of the ITUC) have enriched themselves by robbing the working class again.

Similar examples are available today in all the capitalist countries, and in all of them the yellow unionism has played the same role of puppets handled and at the service of those behind the capitalist governments. During the Second Congress we will collect and update this data.

From the previous data it will be understood that yellow unions, those which practice the conciliation of classes, have not been interested in creating a world structure that coordinates the struggle of Pensioners and Retirees. Only in Europe there is a bureaucratic platform, linked to the CES, which, pretending to discuss the problems of former workers, only serves as a luxury travel agency for ETUC leaders. As organization, it has never called any action against exploitative capitalism.

Up to this day, during its four years existence, our TUI, the only global organization of Pensioners and Retirees, has already called three global actions (on October 1, 2016, 2,017 and 2,018) each year more successful, and several regional actions, in addition 

to its everlasting support of the constant and fair struggles of Pensioners and Retirees country by country. We are defending the rights of 20% of the world’s population and 30% of the world’s voters.

The Second Congress will also serve to evaluate these actions and the necessary struggle of Pensioners and Retirees on a whole world basis, against the common enemy, against the capitalism lead by the IMF and its collaborators.

It will also serve to check the daily realities of those structures of our TUI set in motion in the already realized and successful 5 Regional or Continental Conferences.

Finally, the Congress should bring an election of the new management team of our TUI that will work on the high levels during the forthcoming five years between the Second and the Third Congress, ensuring that we will choose the best union leaders who are in a position to fully dedicate themselves to making it work as an important organization inside the WFTU.

We will hold this Second Congress in compliance with the decisions of the successful 17th Congress of the WFTU held in Durban (South Africa) in October 2016, a Congress in which 1,300 delegates from 112 countries around the world made it clear how needed is to improve the coordination and spread of experiences, the strengthening of solidarity among trade unions, the increase of militant initiatives, the organization and the increase of militancy of all the organizations that belong to the great fighting and internationalist family of the WFTU . One of these organizations is the TUI of Pensioners and Retirees.

In order for all of the above to be a reality we convened the Second Congress of the TUI of Pensioners and Retirees of the WFTU, that will be held on days 27 and 28, of month February of the next year 2,019, in city Bogota of country Colombia, of America.

It will be a militant and democratic Congress that will elect the new leadership, will discuss the serious problems that affect Pensioners and Retirees all over, the plan of action and the strengthening of our TUI over the next five years.

We invite trade unions and class organizations of Pensioners and Retirees no matter their political and ideological position (within the broad spectrum of class unionism, which adheres to the anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist and internationalist agenda), to join us and to the militant movement of the Pensioners and Retirees of the whole world to fight for a better future for the current and future Pensioners and Retirees. For a better tomorrow far away from wars and capitalist barbarism, to open the road to socialism, the only future that can ensure the well-being of Humanity.

The comrades of H sign this appeal letter along with the leadership of the TUI and along with George Mavrikos, from WFTU´s leadership.

Subsequently a letter will be sent with the guidelines for the election of the delegates (normally one for each class organization of the Pensioners and Retirees, country to country) and several other details that will help the success of the appeal.

The TUI of Pensioners and Retirees and the central leadership of the WFTU reiterate 

the invitation on 27 and 28, of month February of the next year 2,019, in city Bogota 

of country Colombia, of America, a country rich in the history of trade union struggles.

We will try to be worthy of the hope of the current and future Pensioners and Retirees, and of the needs of the working class in today's world.

With internationalist greetings for all comrades,

Athens, Mars 20th 2.018.

WFTU Statement on the 73 years since the dropping of atomic bombs.

On August 6th 2018, seventy three years have completed since the crime in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 9th, by the US Imperialism , which in 1945 deprived the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and thousands of others in the coming years due to the effects of radiation in the territory.

The dropping of atomic bombs meant to intimidate the peoples, to send a “message” to the USSR, to the militant movement of all countries, to put the stamp of US intimidation to the international situation after the second world war.

The position of the USA and their allies generates new dangers for the wider region and mankind as a whole. The USA, NATO and European Union aim at plundering Third World Countries’ natural resources, strengthening their spheres of influence and tracing new borders. The dangers for the World Peace are grave. The inter-imperialist antagonisms are constantly being exacerbated.

The WFTU denies USA’s “right” to decide on who can and who is not allowed to have nuclear energy. No one has ever authorized USA to allow Israel, Pakistan, Turkey or S. Korea to have nuclear weapons while they are telling lies and excuses about others.

The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), since the first year of its foundation in 1945, has had a clear and plain position against nuclear weapons. During all of its Congresses, decisions requesting the abolition of all nuclear weapons from all the countries have been voted.

The Secretariat

FISE Meeting for teachers, Sri Lanka September 14th 2018

Invitation

FISE Meeting for teachers, Sri Lanka September 14th 2018

 Dear Colleagues in education,

FISE and WFTU jointly invite a teacher delegate from your trade union in the teachers’ meeting of Asia under the theme:

“The Resolutions of the FISE Congress that took place with great success in Mexico and the priorities for the trade unions in education”.

In the meeting the WFTU General Secretary, George Mavrikos will also take part.

To register you may use the following emails:

• international@wftucentral.org
• asia@wftucentral.org

With militant Greetings,

Opinion: Trump exceeded all limits * ~Opinión: Trump superó todos los límites*

ENGLISH ~ INGLÉS

Some news perishes lies, so surprising. The immigration issue in the United States or Europe traditionally attracts attention, but the recent case of children separated from their parents, on the US border, shows that humanity is at great risk.

The president of the USA, Donald Trump, overcame all the limits of good sense. Under any perspective, your policy regarding immigrants is disgusting. The working class of the whole world must condemn publicly its position.

The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) dedicated its International Day of Action (October 3) in 2017 to the debate on the situation of immigrants and refugees around the world. Since then, there has not been any achievement. It is necessary to discuss that in more depth, under the possibility that new tragedies occur on all continents.

The UIS Metal and Mining is leaded to that fight and condemns with vehemence the fascist policy of Trump. Our Congress, which will be held in Egypt, between July 19 and 21, will not leave that issue aside. The evils of capitalism need an urgent confrontation, with courage and solidarity among the peoples.

* Francisco Sousa is the general secretary of the International Union of Metalworkers and Miners (UISMM) of the WFTU.

SPANISH ~ ESPAÑOL

Algunas noticias se perecen mentiras, de tan sorprendentes. La cuestión inmigratoria en Estados Unidos u Europa tradicionalmente despiertan la atención, pero el recién caso de niños separados de sus padres, en la frontera norteamericana, muestra que la humanidad está bajo gran riesgo.

El presidente de los EUA, Donald Trump, superó todos los límites de buen sentido. Bajo cualquiera perspectiva, su política a respeto de los inmigrantes es repugnante. La clase obrera de todo el mundo debe condenar públicamente su postura.

La Federación Sindical Mundial (FSM) dedicó su Día Internacional de Acción (3 de octubre) em 2017 al debate sobre la situación de los inmigrantes y refugiados alrededor del planeta. Desde entonces, no ha habido logro algún. Es necesario discutirnos eso con más profundidad, bajo la posibilidad de que nuevas tragedias ocurran en todos los continentes.

La UIS Metal y Minería se soma a esa lucha y condena con vehemencia la política fascista de Trump. Nuestro Congreso, que será realizado en Egipto, entre los días 19 y 21 de julio, no dejará eso tema de lado. Los males del capitalismo necesitan de un enfrentamiento urgente, con coraje y solidaridad entre los pueblos.

*Francisco Sousa es el secretario general de la Unión Internacional Sindical de Metalúrgicos y Mineros (UISMM) de la FSM.  

Cairo, Egypt: The 3rd TUI MM Congress continues its works

The delegates of the 3rd TUI Metal and Mining gathered at Cairo, Egypt, continue their debates and planificatión of their action in the Metal Sector for the years to come. The made important inputs concerning the problems that Metal Branch workers are faced with and underlined the necessity for an even more intense coordination of class-oriented forces.  20 Jul 2018

EGYPT, TUI METAL

WFTU statement on the heat-wave in South Korea

03 Aug 2018

ASIA, SOUTH KOREA

According to the South Korean Ministry of Health, Welfare and Disease Control, at least 29 people have died due to heatstroke in South Korea.

The WFTU expresses its sincere condolences to the families and friends of the of the dead people. Unfortunately, whether it is a heat-wave or any other natural disaster, always the workers, the ordinary people, are unprotected, suffer and pay with their lives the lack of safety measures.

The World Federation of Trade Union firmly struggles for the ensuring of the protection of the workers and the popular strata in all aspect of their life and call the workers to strengthen the class-oriented trade union movement in this direction.

WFTU Statement on the Situation in Syria and the “new Middle East”

MIDDLE EAST, SYRIA

Yesterday, July 4, 2018, the negotiations for the resolution of conflicts in southern Syria ceased. The negotiations were a COMPLETE FAILURE. Today, July 5, the Security Council of the UN holds its extraordinary session. The hypocrisy triumphs again! All claim that they are interested in the establishment of “peace”, “democracy”, “freedoms” etc. For 8 years, intra-imperialist antagonisms have been increasing in the South-East Mediterranean, the Gulf region and the Middle East. Strong actors claim to get their own part in Syria, Iraq and North Africa, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen and everywhere.

The World Federation of Trade Unions denounces the projects of manipulation, enslavement and separation of employees and peoples according to religious, sectarian, racial, and national differences. The division and segmentation of workers aims to hide the real causes of poverty, exploitation and wars. These real causes are the dispute over the control of natural resources and the transport routes for energy, the acquisition of new markets, the demarcation of new frontiers. The millions of refugees, migrants and innocent victims are the result of imperialist antagonisms.

In parallel with our struggle against imperialist interventions, against the policies of NATO, the United States, the EU and their allies, the WFTU firmly expresses its solidarity with the progressive and anti-imperialist forces in Turkey, Lebanon , Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Jordan in their struggle for popular, labor, trade union and democratic rights.

The firm position and principles of the WFTU have always been and will be that it is the peoples themselves – and not the imperialists – who have the right to decide on their present and future freely and democratically.

At the same time, we take advantage of our presence within the International Organizations to support human rights in the Gulf monarchies, both for the citizens of these countries and for the migrants from Asian countries. There are many cases that migrant workers in the Gulf countries are treated as animals and not as human beings.

We call on all the militant unions all over the world to inform their members about the reality of the situation, the real responsible persons, by revealing the hypocrisy of the International Organizations which regularly follow the same lines as those of NATO and the imperialists.

The Secretariat

Meeting between the WFTU General Secretary George Mavrikos and Mahinda Jayasighe Vice-president of FISE, responsible for Asia

Mahinda Jayasighe Vice-president of FISE

05 Jul 2018

ASIA, FISE

The WFTU General Secretary George Mavrikos met with Mahinda Jayasighe Vice-president of FISE, responsible for Asia, in the WFTU Central Offices in Athens Greece on July 5th and discussed about the action plan of FISE in the World and especially in Asian Region.

WFTU Statement on the 90 years since the birth of Ché

“People may die but never do their ideas”

Today, June 14, 2018, is the 90th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest revolutionaries of the twentieth century, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, known throughout the Latin American continent as “Ché”.

For the big class-oriented family of the WFTU, the figure of Ché remains a guide for the struggles of the present and the future. Although the US imperialists managed to kill him, they will never succeed, no matter how hard they try, to sully his pioneering action, his immense contribution in the struggle against capitalism and its lackeys. For us, for all the simple and class-oriented unionists, the emblematic figure and the ideas of Ché will never lose their validity and vigor. Ché was a revolutionary who fought imperialism with the weapon at hand and never gave up; and this can not be erased by the falsifiers of history.

At this very moment when imperialists prepare new wars for the distribution of natural resources, waves of refugees are uprooted by imperialist aggression and thousands of workers are being sacrificed on the altar of capital gains, the path that Ché traced is an example to follow. Because imperialism has not died yet. Because there are thousands of militants of the WFTU throughout the world who continue to fight against the domination of capital and keep alive the spark and hope for a new world, without exploitation of man by man.

For the WFTU, the words of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro are the wish that we share with all our class brothers and sisters throughout the world:

“If we want to express how we want our children to be, we must say: WE WANT THEM TO BE LIKE CHÉ!”

The Secretariat

USB-Italy: Leroy Merlin – The fight pays!

11 Jun 2018

EUROPE, ITALY, USB

                                                                                                                         

USB Logistics workers and the porters of Leroy Merlin were right: the head of the Premium Net consortium and 5 of its employees were arrested

THANKS TO WFTU TRADE UNIONS FOR SUPPORTING OUR FIGHT

WFTU trade unions supported our struggles bringing our fight and our protest also in their countries in front of Leroy Merlin shops.

In many cities and countries in EU our brothers of WFTU did their initiatives supporting our hard fight.

For months USB and workers employed in the logistic center of Val Tidone (Piacenza) have reported a situation in which farocial cooperatives were constantly changing fiscal code, did not pay social security contributions, fired workers and then reassumed them without notifying them and without signing any contract, while the TFR disappeared and all the porters were re-teamed at the lower levels.

For months we have struggled for the rights trampled, this has meant aggression by the “caporali” and in some cases hospitalization in the emergency room, while for all it has been translated into blackmail and retaliation.

For months, USB workers have continued to face disciplinary disputes, demotions, transfers to homes far from home, only because they have had the courage to denounce the mountain of irregularities and illegality that govern the Premium Net system and its cooperatives.
Now the truth has finally come to the surface: the president of the consortium Giancarlo Bolondi and 5 of his collaborators have been arrested (another 5 are investigated) for tax evasion, tax fraud, money laundering accumulated illegally in sites of Lombardy and Lazio.

USB demands that the dignity and rights of the workers be restored, stabilizing all the precarious workers and removing all the anti-union practices that have characterized internal relations so far. True justice lies in beating the blackmail of precariousness, the arrogance of the corporal, the procurement system

The USB porters were right, their struggles, their principles, those for which they were brutally evicted by the police, clearly demonstrated who is on the side of legality and rights.
USB immediately asks Leroy Merlin to change the method, to clean up and go to a management of logistics services by eliminating the procurement chain to go to the direct recruitment of workers.

United we are unbeatable!

Long live WFTU!

Long live internationalism!

USB International department