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Caterpillar: travailleurs en grève contre la guerre [photos]
by Philippe Grignard Wednesday March 26, 2003 at 10:52 AM
p.grignard@skynet.be

Ce lundi 24 mars 2003, le front commun syndical, ouvriers et employés, a organisé des assemblées du personnel et des arrets de travail,à chaque début de pause,( matin, apres midi et nuit,) à l'extérieur de l'usine et à hauteur d'une importante chaussée de pénétration dans Charleroi. Des milliers de tracts furent distribués aux automobilistes. Cela, afin de protester contre la guerre menée par l'administration Bush pour contrôler le pétrole de l'Irak.

Caterpillar: travail...
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Particulièrement contre les conséquences économiques que le personnel devrait subir dans la mesure où le siège belge de Caterpillar (Gosselies) à, entre autre, le marché du moyen-orient dans sa sphère de ventes de machines de génie civil.
D'autre part, et sur le fond il est pour le moins inadmissible, de gaspiller ces sommes d'argent faramineuses alors que l'on nous dit qu'il en manque pour le social, la culture, l'enseignement, l'éducation, les pensions, le devellopement durable. Folie furieuse et indécence.
Les diverses prises de parole ont mis l'accent sur ce que subit la population irakienne.
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[Belgium]: Caterpillar on strike against the war.
by [ rough translation by red kitten ] Wednesday March 26, 2003 at 12:18 PM
redkitten@indymedia.be

Monday, March 24th: workers and employees, united in a front between the different trade-unions have stop working, at the start of every shift [ morning, afternoon and night ]. They have organised an assembly of the workers outside the factory, next to a main road getting in the town of Charleroi [ South-West of Belgium ]. Thousands of leaflets have been given to the car drivers.
The purpose of this all was to protest against the war done by Bush's administration for the controle of the oil of Irak.

Also to protest especially against the effect that the workers of the Caterpillar factory based in Gosselies [ Charleroi, Belgium ]. This factory is selling civil machines, including to the Middle-East
Another issue, on a more general level, is the fact that it's totally unacceptable to waste such huge amount of money while at the same time we are told that there's no money for social issues, culture, education, pensions, sustainable devellopement. This is pure madness and indecency.
Several speakers have insisted on what the Iraqui population have to take now.

Boycott?
by Theo Wednesday March 26, 2003 at 12:27 PM

Ces travailleurs supportent-ils aussi le boycott des produits américains prônés par certains esprits illuminés?