Public Meeting in Berlin for English-Speaking Workers

netherlands / germany / austria | workplace struggles | anarchist communist event Thursday July 05, 2012 17:55 by RootlessCosmopolitan - FAU-IAA faub134 at fau dot org

Badly Paid? Overworked? Foreign? Time to Organise!

A group of us FAU-IAA members living in Berlin who do not speak German as a native language have recently been organising a foreign workers working group, we hail from countries including Greece, England, Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Spain etc. We are organising our first public event and we'd encourage any interested parties resident in Berlin to attend and anyone with connections with interested parties in Berlin to publicise the event.

Being an immigrant to a new country where you do not speak the native language fluently can be a nerve-wracking experience, you're open to exploitation by bosses, landlords and state officials and finding a way to fight back, not least to change the world can be difficult. So let's get together!

Topics covered will include:

• Why join a union?
• Why join the Free Workers' Union (FAU)?
• Why is the FAU not just another union?
• What makes a syndicalist union different?
• How is the FAU organised?
• All this and more...