Der nachfolgend dokumentierte Solidaritätsaufruf stammt von der Homepage von Solidarity, hierbei geht es um den Kampf gegen die Entlassung von fünf ArbeiterInnen beim Lastwagenhersteller Freightliner LLC/Daimler Trucks North America LLC in Cleveland/North Carolina, welcher sich im Besitz der Daimler AG befindet. Die fünf hatten im vergangenen Jahr einen Streik organisiert und wurden hierfür gefeuert, aus diesem Grunde findet heute ein Aktionstag für die Wiedereinstellung der fünf statt. Weitere Infos zu dem Fall findet mensch unter anderem auf der Webseite justice4five.com.
An Injury to One Is an Injury to All –
Justice for the Freightliner Five!
Five members of the UAW Local 3520’s bargaining committee at Freightliner LLC, a truck manufacturing plant, owned by Daimler need your help. The Freightliner Five were fired a year ago for leading a strike in their plant over health, safety and other issues. May 9th is an international day of action for the Freightliner Five. Join them in Cleveland, NC for an 11AM rally in Cleveland Park OR organize solidarity actions at Freightliner/Daimler locations. Demand immediate reinstatement of the five with full back pay.
Download and distribute the flyer for May 9 action to support the Freightliner Five!
Although Freightliner opened the plant in Cleveland, a small town in “right-to-work” (for less) North Carolina, almost twenty years ago it wasn’t until 2002 that the workers there got seriously interested in a union. Workers had just taken a $1.15 an hour pay cut to cover their health care. However a UAW-recognized plant in nearby Mount Holly were protected by a contract, and therefore didn’t have their wages slashed. So when the UAW held a meeting three months later, workers in Cleveland attended. A core of workers set up a volunteer organizing committee, working out of the Methodist Church and planned an effective campaign that led to union recognition. Four of the Freightliner Five were members of that volunteer committee: Allen Bradley, Glenna Swinford, Franklin Torrence and Robert Whiteside. (The fifth member, David Crisco, joined the union later.)
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