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Mossley factoy, 62th day of occupation

Nicolas | 24.08.2001 22:24

August 22, after 60th day of occupation of their spinning mill, Mossley workers launched two actions commandos. One at the house of a former director, whose garden was copiously filled with reels of wire. The other at the Damart company in Lille, where balls of wire were flaring

Two actions of the Mossley workers

August 22, after 60th day of occupation of their spinning mill, Mossley workers launched two actions commandos. One at the house of a former director, whose garden was copiously filled with reels of wire. The other at the Damart company in Lille, where balls of wire were flaring: Damart was the principal customer of the spinning mill of Hellemmes, with 64 % of the sales turnover, and it is the retreat of this company which caused the liquidation of the spinning mill.

After two months of fights and actions, Mossley workers still did not obtain from "social plan". After the first table-round of negotiations, the employers' propositions were even downed. The Mossley workers are increasingly determined to put on the pressure, in particular on the stock of wire of which they ensure the guard: 700 tons, whose commercial value is estimated at 3 million Euros, and that they menaced to make flame if no solution can be found. Like an union representative says it: "If the cops enter the factory, we'll destroys stock in the minutes which follow. In Cellatex, they promised to to pour acid in the river, and they had an exemplary social plan. Then here, one does us like that." And when one knows the combativeness and the determination of Mossley workers, we know that it's not idle talk!

Nicolas

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To support the employees of the Mossley textile mill workers of Hellemmes (France)

* Send messages by fax, directly on the site of the occupied factory : 00 33 3 20 04 00 33

* Send emails, individual or collective, at the address  cerclesocial@altern.org. All the mails will be transmitted directly to the workers of Hellemmes. They are read with attention and well appreciated.

* Write by mailing-post : Comite de Soutien SARL Hellemmes 73rue Roger Salengro 59260 Hellemmes - France

* Send your financial support, by putting the order checks of the
Comite de Soutien SARL Hellemmes, and by
sending them to the same address (Comite de Soutien SARL Hellemmes 73rue Roger Salengro 59260 Hellemmes - France).

* Translate this email or diffuse it in mailing-lists.

All the supports are truly essential. All solidarity messages is an happy new for workers. Fight glotal capitalism where it is done, not only where it is decided !

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Nicolas
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