STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: Downwithcapitalism <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 11:38 PM Subject: [downwithcapitalism] Strikes, occupation in France Agence France Presse. 12 June 2001. Paris' Louvre museum, Chateau de Versailles shut down by strike; Demonstrators occupy runways at Paris' Orly airport. Combined reports. PARIS -- Several hundred demonstrators taking part in a one day strike at the troubled airline AOM-Air Liberte occupied runways at Orly airport in Paris Wednesday. Around 2,000 protesters -- airline staff and other airport workers -- marched mid-afternoon on to the runways at Orly's south terminal, where AOM-Air Liberte is based, preventing take-offs and landings. They then pushed through a police cordon to take over the runways at the west terminal, used by Air France. The occupation lasted over half an hour before the demonstrators left in the face of a large contingent of riot police. The airport authorities said flights had been delayed, but not for long. All AOM-Air Liberte domestic and long-haul flights were earlier grounded as part of the strike by company employees, who are concerned over the uncertain future of the airline. "This is not a last ditch mobilisation, but the start of a long resistance to defend employment and the airline's activity," said Sylvie Faure of the Communist CGT union. She said AOM-Air Liberte's plight was a "symbol of the failure of the liberalisation of air transport." Earlier, technicians from the troubled French airline blocked a road leading to Paris' Orly airport causing severe traffic disruption, a union officials said. "Some 50 technicians, backed by fellow workers from Air France, set up a roadblock on one of the access roads reserved for Air France personnel," said union representative Fadila Brahimi. Paris' Louvre and Guimet museums as well as the Chateau de Versailles were closed to the public on Wednesday due to a strike by employees over the new reduced working week. Similar work stoppages have affected the Louvre and other national monuments since March. The unions are demanding a major recruitment drive to accompany the introduction of the reduced 35-hour working week which is to take effect in January. * * * * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
