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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.

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TÜV wirft Obi Täuschungsmanöver Gütesiegeln vor mit OBI

chain saws, chippers, electric grills - to "mirror" information to deceive the DIY chain Obi their customers with fraudulent marks on the safety of the devices. This will have noted the TÜV Rheinland. The Group object to them.


throws TUV Rheinland of DIY chain Obi "Prüfzeichenmissbrauch" before. Since 2009, the Technical Control Board, had plastered the company 23 products unfairly with the GS seal - it stands for "safety tested" and is considered a leading quality footprint in Europe. Despite requests for injunctive Obi distributes the goods' on inadmissible to the GS-mark of TUV Rheinland. It related to safety-sensitive equipment from the arsenal of the German amateur gardener and home improvement: shredder, chain saws, scarifiers and electric grills by Obi-priced private label and Lux € Mate, that the construction markets their customers were deceived for years. The lawyers of the Empire of the Haub family (Tengelmann Kik) belonging chain reject the charge of MOT: If, for example, the Asian producer has the tool, a key certificate for the use of a GS-mark, need a of local distributors such as € Mate no co- license more.

perverse interpretation

Johann Huber, head of the Central Authority of the Federal States for Safety, holds that interpretation is unreasonable: "Who's on the label or packaging," said "to be a holder of the certificate." The superintendent, To receive a certificate, the product of independent auditors, such as those of the TUV will be assessed. Is there a product out the tests, they must bear the seal of approval for a fee.

seem overly critical to the experts but not to be. Customers such as Obi with his 560 markets no one likes to lose: for example, was one of the TÜV Rheinland for another 80 Obi-products on post-certification, without punishing the abuse. Minutes of meetings between TUV and Obi-managers from the spring of 2009, shows how little the experts in doubt, fall: 26 times paid 25,000 euros penalty had been calculated up to then, has Obi (annual revenues just under six billion euros) a cent. If in doubt, allows the retailer to know, would "always in the interest of customer satisfaction and safety decision. Some devices with the potential hazard Obi-Manager waived but obviously for certification. In internal templates that "goods are sold with a new label (without GS)."

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The DIY chain OBI may be classified at Lidl, H & M and the likes! Because councils have difficulty in this enterprise. Permanent Harassment on the agenda.

get as union representatives issued bans house, council elections will be seriously impeded and staff, open my mouth will, simple termination.


As Spiegel Online reports OBI tried in advance the formation of works councils in each branch to prevent. According to a ver.di representatives are everywhere where works are to be set up strong resistance and difficulties. OBI trying new BR-ups to prevent systematic. BR-run elections never been from as required by the Works Constitution Act. Employees who want to run for the election officers are systematically harassed and harassed. Even unlawful, dismissal will be issued to employees who want to get involved in the BR. Well-paid voluntary redundancies for council members or candidates are not uncommon.

The numbers speak for themselves alone: Only in 40 of the 330 nationwide stores scattered OBI there is ever a works council. They are only 12 percent.

Spicy is the fact that the purpose of visit, according to media reports Spiegel Online The management staff of OBI with a lawyer seminars in the "Works-Killing."

commented the allegations, the OBI headquarters only way that the employee representatives' trust work together "...

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Berlusconi dégagé!

The dilemma with the Tunisians and the Egyptians that the movement is a movement against social and economic inequalities actually. The primary malcontents do a better economic system. Since it is actually a stroke of luck that these countries are ruled by kleptocratic Diktaroren (were). This allows the people's anger against these figures discharged. The problem is that it is possible for a regime change hardly expect improvement, because the dictators will disappear with only some of the causes. It is probably appropriate in Tunisia even more optimism than in Egypt. Democracy alone will not fix the problem!

was similar in South Africa. There too, the blacks wanted primarily to share the living standards of whites. Overcoming the apartheid regime was certainly a great advance, but the basic economic ills was not removed and thus is the most blacks are not much better today than then.

another (inverted) Example is Italy. Paradepeispiel that democracy is no guarantee of economic justice and wisdom. That autocrats like Berlusconi can also switch from a democratic guise to exercise discretion and while the state and society is decomposed by corruption is a very instructive example. Again, conversely, economic policy in China pretty much everything is done correctly, though from where democracy can not be discussed.

out democracy (as Plato has already shown) to populism and sooner or later to despotism. Shown is that in Italy. Despotism in turn leads to call for freedom (Tunisia and Egypt) and so on.

Conclusion: Democracy is necessary to create but not sufficiently to bring about stability and prosperity for all. It also needs the application of certain principles. Here is my selection in a somewhat random order:
1) an economically autonomous middle class (the Roman republic could exist only on a layer of free peasants ...)
2) strict separation of powers (checks and balances)
3 ) of course, fundamental rights, which are indisputable nor by democratic decisions.
4) A coherent, credible and legally compliant acting executive ("Monarchical" element), an informed decision-making in the legislative process ("aristocratic" element), a renewal of the "elites" by election (or markets) and the possibility of direct intervention by a vote (democratic element).
5) local competencies to enable the citizen remains maximum (eg federalism).
6) follows from the foregoing that: to make diversity in the media, without the possibility of a single political force, the opinions in the media.

Example of Italy: 1) is reduced continuously, 2), 3), 4) and 6) were thoroughly undermined and 5) for the purpose of separatist ideas abused ...