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Victoria de las “kellys” sevillanas: readmitted with indefinite contracts

Eight chambermaids of the Barceló Renacimiento floor will be readmitted with indefinite contracts

by The Other Andalucia original en castellano abajo

From getting paid only 500 euros per month, the workers will now get 858 euros per month for 30 hours per week.

Eight floor maids Barceló Renacimiento de Sevilla have picketed at the door of the hotel for almost a month, armed with whistles, a banner and dressed in shirts in defense of their jobs and a decent life for them and their families. All were fired when the Barceló chain changed the external company that managed the room cleaning service.

Andalusian Kellys

They treated the employees as if they were dogs, and that led to a social protest that ended successfully. “They called us from one day to the next and told us that the next day we would not be needed”, recalls Lucía Díaz, a 28-year-old woman who has acted as a spokesperson for the group of workers who will eventually be hired under much more favorable conditions than before.

According to Lucía, one of the eight floor waitresses affected by the dismissal has already begun to work and the remaining seven will do so in the coming days, once an agreement with Alterna Solutions has been signed, the new contract with which the hotel establishment of five stars has outsourced the room cleaning service, which puts an end to the labor dispute.

“We are very happy, we have fought for our rights and also for those of all Kellys. They told us that we were very few, that they would not listen to us and look, we won, “says Lucía, who emphasizes the” generosity “of Alterna Solution, the company subcontracted by the Barceló Renacimiento hotel, that has readmitted all the workers, which is not required . Continue reading “Victoria de las “kellys” sevillanas: readmitted with indefinite contracts”

12 Anarchists still Held Hostage without Bail in Argentina

Argentina: All 12 Anarchist Comrades Detained in November Are Being Held in Preventive Detention

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Note from the Chilean blog Publicacion Refractario: Despite the continuous contradictory information that has come to us from different factions regarding the detained comrades on the other side of the mountain range, which is related to the fact that their situation is not being publicized- their names, the charges, everything that happened has been silenced.

We prefer to publish the communique from the ‘Union of Lawyers and Attorneys’ who are quite clear about the recent events that have taken place in the Argentine territory… Against silence and indifference: To spread insurrectionist anti-prison solidarity.The attacks and mass arrests of the anarchists came just before the G20 Meeting in Buenos Aires.All the detained anarchists defended by our union have been processed and placed in preventive detention.

In total there are 12 anarchist political prisoners.

One is accused of throwing an explosive device at Judge Bonadio’s car. His name is Marco Viola. Two others are accused of having attacked the tomb of the criminal chief of the Federal Police Colonel Ramón Falcón. Their names are Anahi Salcedo and Hugo Rodriguez.

There was a raid on a social center in the Barrio of Constitución, in CABA (Autonomous City of Buenos Aires) and they detained everybody who was meeting in this place, some with more permanence, others circumstantially.

ALL OF THEM have been accused of EVERYTHING.

They are all under investigation for being part of an organized structure established and created to commit offences among which are those that we have already mentioned.

Bail was refused for all of the detainees.

Now Judge Ercolini has indicted all of the accused. The prosecution ruling for PREVENTIVE DETENTION was passed. . They have ordered that ALL the anarchist detainees remain imprisoned until their trial.

The Union will appeal the resolution.

Union of Lawyers and Attorneys. December 2018

Publicacion Refractario: On November 14, an explosive device detonated inside the Recoleta Cemetery, near the tomb of the miserable Colonel Falcon (military chief responsible for the massacres of workers at the beginning of the last century and happily executed in revenge by the anarchist comrade Simon Radowitzky). (In fact it was the anniversary of his death and just before the G20 Meeting )

As a result of the apparently premature detonation of the small bomb two people were arrested at the scene. Continue reading “12 Anarchists still Held Hostage without Bail in Argentina”

#YellowVests: A Call for Intergalactic Actions of Solidarity

ACT 5: THIS TIME IT’S INTERGALACTIC. A call out from the gilets jaunes (yellow vests), for solidarity actions everywhere. On Saturday the 15th of December 2018.

Originally published by Gilets Jaunes Intergalactiques

It began as anger against neoliberal climate policies, a revolt against unfair petrol taxes that pass on the cost to working people rather than the rich and the very multinationals most responsible for polluting our planet.

Now four weeks later, it has become a popular uprising for dignity, a rebellion against the elite and their world, a cry for equality. It has evolved into a powerful refusal of representation, of spokes people, political parties and unions.

We have all been overtaken by what has been happening, everyone hasbecome more than themselves; because we are impossible to define, the only code we have is a colour code, all the other codes are broken. We are too diverse and decentralized to be called a movement, too different to be categorized, let’s simply say we are an uprising ! Continue reading “#YellowVests: A Call for Intergalactic Actions of Solidarity”

21st Dec: Monster Stoppage in Catalonia to defy Spanish Repression

Tension is rising fast in Catalonia due to:

The Hunger Strike of the Republican leaders still incarcerated for calling a successful Referendum
The insulting anti Catalan stance of the new Spanish president and continuing racist campaign in Spain whipping up support and spawning a new rabidly fascist sexist party, VOX, and an upsurge in fascist street attacks.
The calling of a Spanish Council of Ministers in Barcelona on 21-D, with a mass import of special police, on the anniversary of elections which confirmed Republican support
The continuing High and Constitutional Court verdicts that are blatantly anti Catalan and neo-fascist.
Frustration that the French Yellow Vests achieve their aims in weeks by violence while Catalans are repressed, mocked and vilified while enforcing pacifism.

The AP-7 , The main North South Motorway, was closed by the CDRs for 15 hours at Ampolla

Huge Catalog of Actions planned already for 21/December Continue reading “21st Dec: Monster Stoppage in Catalonia to defy Spanish Repression”

The SDF conquer 35% of Hajin , the last big Fortress of ISIS

note: this blog thefreeonline.wordpress.com, has now been banned in Turkey with Dozens more pro Rojava and anti Fascist sites

The SDF conquer 35% of Hajin with heavy losses
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 The northern part of the city, including the hospital, has been conquered by the Syrian Democratic Forces, (SDF) after fighting throughout the week.

Thirty Islamists have died in the fighting. The Islamic State had been entrenched in the hospital and the mosque despite being non-combat sites. Continue reading “The SDF conquer 35% of Hajin , the last big Fortress of ISIS”