We, the action committee of the WISAG ground workers at Frankfurt Airport, show solidarity with you workers at the Volvo Trucks truck plant in Dublin (Virginia, USA ). For the second time, you overwhelmingly rejected a collective agreement and resumed the strike that you have been waging against wage robbery and grueling working hours since April 17th. The United Auto Workers (UAW) union wanted to impose a contract on you that would have stipulated the dire conditions for six years. But the Volvo Workers’ Independent Action Committee has made the concrete facts known and empowered you to make your own judgment and boldly vote no.
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WISAG workers after their hunger strike at Rhein-Main Airport, March 3, 2021
We WISAG ground workers are also fighting against this double oppression – on the one hand capitalist entrepreneurs who used the pandemic to enrich themselves even more uninhibitedly at our expense, and on the other hand the union officials who see themselves as co-managers of the companies. At WISAG we are fighting against the illegitimate layoffs of 260 workers who had worked at the airport for decades before they were kicked out and replaced by over-exploited low-wage workers. We too rebelled against the union. The service union Verdi at the airport did not lift a finger in our defense, even though we had paid membership fees for decades. We left and laid a black funeral wreath in front of the Verdi headquarters in Frankfurt.
Since then, more and more workers from other companies at the airport have joined our committee who are not prepared to give up their jobs, their income and the future of their families without a fight, and who have the same experiences with Verdi as we do. For decades we have seen how the conditions at the airport are worsened by deregulation and privatization and how a narrow class enriches itself at our expense.
We have about that World Socialist Web Site learned of your struggle while the bourgeois media systematically keep silent about it. They also kept silent about our demonstrations and our eight-day hunger strike in February / March. In the WSWS reports, your colleagues speak out strongly in favor of international solidarity, and we fully agree with you! At the beginning of our labor dispute we had the motto: “Today we – tomorrow you”, and by this we mean not only that more and more workers are affected by the attacks on jobs and wages, but also that more and more workers are involved in our struggle will connect.
In this sense we wish you the necessary strength and solidarity from ever broader layers of the working class so that you can lead your struggle to success!
With solidarity greetings HB for the WISAG Action Committee
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Millions of workers and employees are forced to walk into the factories and offices every day to keep profits flowing. The unions and their works councils support them in this. Workers have to take action themselves and take the protection of their health and life into their own hands.
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