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Strike Against German Airline Lufthansa


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Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:54:00

July 28, 2008 - Approximately 5,000 freight, catering and maintenance staff walked off the jobs at midnight after the Verdi service union representing 52,000 workers voted overwhelmingly in favour of an indefinite strike.

The workers are demanding a 9.8% wage increase over one year while Lufthansa had offered a 6.7% wage increase over 21 months. 

Despite rising jet fuel costs, Lufthansa made 1.3 billion Euros in profit last year; these profits demonstrate the enormous degree to which the employees are producing wealth for the company.  The workers are using their labour power by stopping work and costing Lufthansa approximately 5 million Euros per day as the company in preparation for the strike has outsourced the work at much higher costs.

Germany, with Europe’s biggest economy, is also feeling the pinch as consumer prices are rising and the wages of the workers are not increasing at the same rate.  This trend is increasing as the Federal Labour Agency, which keeps track of industrial action, said there have been more strike days in Germany since 2006 than in the decade before. 

Workers from around the world are engaging in strikes from Germany to Vietnam to Iran to Peru to South Africa and elsewhere.  The production of wealth by the workers for the bourgeoisie is nothing new; but as profits soar, inflation and consumer prices increase at staggering rates, workers are now more than ever forced to make do with much less while watching the ruling class enjoy a privileged existence.  The working class therefore is fighting back with their power, that is, their abilities to limit or even stop production and take huge chunks of profit away from the companies.  With an emerging worker’s movement, socialism as a process against capitalism is rearing its powerful head.  All the workers need to do at this point is take their work stoppages a step further with an international anti-capitalist agenda, making socialism a reality with factory occupations and self-management and ultimately ending the wage-slavery upon which capitalism is based.      




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