Police Attack Malmo-Syndicalists
The police brutally dispersed a legal and peaceful blockade by the Malmo, Sweden, syndicalist Local Union of the SAC on Friday, July 21st.
The police brutally dispersed a legal and peaceful blockade by the syndicalist trade union Malmö LS in Sweden on Friday.
80 trade unionists had gathered to demand that two fired municipal employees, Freddie Svensson and Nancy Ertl, get their jobs back.
The two were employed at Tallgatans health care centre, whose administration has been struggling with the trade union about not being willing to discuss the local working conditions.
The police brutally dispersed a legal and peaceful blockade by the syndicalist trade union Malmö LS (SAC Local Union) in Sweden on Friday, July 21st.
After the attack the police arrested six trade unionists, one of whom was more or less unconcious from the pepper spray the police attacked them with.
- We were extremely surprised by these police actions. The police has not crushed a trade union action this brutally since the 1930s, says Johanna Nilsson, who participated in the blockade.
The trade union Malmö LS filed a legal suit against the employer on Friday. The police actions have also been reported to the ombudsman for judicial matters.
See pictures (copyleft) at
http://www.yelah.net/news/20060721123438
http://www.sac.se/ls/malmo/tallgatan21juli.html
http://www.sac.se/ls/malmo/
malmo.ls@sac.se
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Sunday July 23, 2006 08:36
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Jump To Comment: 1 2Dear friends,
yesterday a picketline against the local board in Fosie, Malmo
Sweden was attacked by the police. The picket had gathered about 70
people, both from Malmo and othe cities, since the conflict have
been going on for some time. Organisers of the event was Malmo's
social and healthcare syndicate.
Police did use pepperspray, dogs and a quite extreme degree of
voilence, to break the picketline to let the officials in.
9 peole were taken to the police station, accused for violent
resistance, but they were all released after some hours.
In Sweden it'´s illegal for the police to act in such a conflict.
This is a very severe attack on workers rigths, and has no
equivalence in moderns swedish history.
SAC will of course act powerful against the event, and we would be
grateful for acts of solidarity! If it´s possible for you to take
actions at consulates, embassys and so on it would be great.
Messenges of solidarity can be sent to malmo.ls@sac.se.
For pictures, clips etc, you can go to www.malmo.sac.se.
I will return with more background and other adresses to send
letters and faxes with protests to.
Pleas spread this message!
An injury to one, is an injury to all!
in solidarity,
Liv Marend
SAC:s executive committee
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