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Solidaritätsaktionen für die OBI-Beschäftigten - nicht nur - in Polen

Due to a request for assistance from Polish OBI-workers were present on Saturday, 12 February 2011, the first solidarity actions of the FAU in Wiesbaden and Hamburg instead. Background are the working conditions in Poland OBI markets and the actions of managers of the multinational corporation against trade unionists and other active employees.

Hamburg-Harburg

On Saturday, 12.2. led by members of the FAU from Kiel and Hamburg, a joint action on OBI-Baumarkt Hamburg-Harburg. You in an effort to meet the demands of the employees of OBI give emphasis to in Poland.

While on the site via banner and leaflets to customers about the labor struggle of the ZSP were informed in Poland, three activists spoke directly to the employee inside. This responded initially surprised, but not negative, but very interested. Some of them said in interviews that there was in this OBI branch or a works council, nor any union organizing. More remarkable was that these workers initially wanted to hang the flyer to the labor struggle of the ZSP on the bulletin board of the company. Very fast but the management was informed, which then immediately the Security Department showed up and greeted the activists with the words: "You have 30 seconds to disappear - or we call the police." She was of the opinion that Obi should have done in Germany to do with events in Poland. After the leaflet was presented to management with recommendations to the OBI headquarters, the activities shifted from the OBI campus. Pursued by the management but with five securities in tow and was repeatedly announced to call the police.

The reactions and the conditions on the ground have confirmed only that it is necessary to inform special about the place of the true OBI. The international solidarity for the militant comrades of the ZSP-IAA in Poland will go on!

Wiesbaden

members of the FAU in the Rhine-Main area visited in the morning, the OBI office in Wiesbaden. At the beginning
information material in the OBI-Garden Center was distributed to the employees, while other union members with a banner and flags visible, the clientele served at the entrance with flyers.

The action was in the city and surrounding OBI-Baumarkt continued until all FAU activists were asked to leave the area. Meanwhile, for many parked cars were provided with flyers. bring

The third and best place, the information material to the people, was a roundabout, where are the entrances to OBI and its competitor Hornbach. Here formed part of small traffic jams, as many arriving and departing customers stopped short to let go hand flyers in the car.

our findings after two hours of discussions and the distribution of 500 flyers: there has been very well received, both from the customers, and by the staff with whom we have spoken. Amazing was that not a few customers vent their frustration and anger about the "official" unions whose companionship with the SPD and their participation in the Hartz IV expressed obscenities.

The Wiesbaden OBI is the way to the few locations where there is a works and where the conditions are not so bad, according to the workforce, as in other branches. In any case, we have found that issues such as exploitation and poor treatment of employees and for clients of OBI-interest. As can make something!

The colleagues from Cracow thanked already at FAU for the actions that have taken place today.