cyu
7th February 2009, 02:55
Excerpts from http://www.marxist.com/ukraine-kherson-workers-occupy-factory.htm
On Tuesday morning, February 3, the workers at the Kherson Machine Building Plant, KNF, (that produces agricultural machinery) occupied one of the factory's buildings. At 9.30am more than 300 KNF workers broke into the factory grounds and occupied the administrative building.
http://www.marxist.com/images/stories/ukraine/khersonoccupy1.jpg
During this occupation none of the workers were injured, as the local security guards didn't put up any serious resistance.
Now the workers are in the building and many more are outside holding up placards. According to eyewitnesses the general situation is normal, but more and more people are coming to join the strikers.
"Now the factory is totally under workers' control, the situation is being monitored by the workers' council, lead by Leonid Nemchinov. There is no police around the building."
The following is what we can read in the declaration of the KNF workers: "We demand this emergency situation be solved within one week, or we will start extreme actions of protest to protect our families from cold and starvation."
In the last few months industrial production in this country has fallen by a third and continues to go down.
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My thoughts: If production continues to go down, only a government full of idiots would stop people who are trained and willing to continue producing for the economy.
On Tuesday morning, February 3, the workers at the Kherson Machine Building Plant, KNF, (that produces agricultural machinery) occupied one of the factory's buildings. At 9.30am more than 300 KNF workers broke into the factory grounds and occupied the administrative building.
http://www.marxist.com/images/stories/ukraine/khersonoccupy1.jpg
During this occupation none of the workers were injured, as the local security guards didn't put up any serious resistance.
Now the workers are in the building and many more are outside holding up placards. According to eyewitnesses the general situation is normal, but more and more people are coming to join the strikers.
"Now the factory is totally under workers' control, the situation is being monitored by the workers' council, lead by Leonid Nemchinov. There is no police around the building."
The following is what we can read in the declaration of the KNF workers: "We demand this emergency situation be solved within one week, or we will start extreme actions of protest to protect our families from cold and starvation."
In the last few months industrial production in this country has fallen by a third and continues to go down.
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My thoughts: If production continues to go down, only a government full of idiots would stop people who are trained and willing to continue producing for the economy.