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Solidarity with the striking Volvo workers in Virginia, USA!

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.

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.

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