URGENT solidarity call by Portuguese workers

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 Subject:  [SALT-L] URGENT solidarity call by Portuguese workers
    Date:  12 Mar 2000 00:14:25 -0000
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Below is an update on the cleaners' and drivers' strike at Sintra,
Portugal.
Please send messages of support and protest messages urgently.

NM,
CWI Centre.

----- Original Message -----
From: LUTA SOCIALISTA <ls_cit@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 09 March 2000 17:29


> Dear comrades
>
> Thanks for the support you have given already. However, we need
immediate
help once again.
> Yesterday, the Mayor of Sintra Council, Presidente Edite Estrela sent
a
> private company to remove the trash and also sent the police force to
stop
the action of strikers.
>
> In two separate incidents the police (PSP) and the National Gard (GNR)

> assaulted the workers as they tried to stop the action of the private
company.
> A striker was arrested and will now go on trial on grounds of
'disobeying
authority'.
> However, the determination of the strikers and the solidarity of
working
class
> people stopped this attempt to break the strike.
>
> Pelase send solidarity messages to:

> Sintra cleaners' and drivers' strikers - francisrap@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Sindicato dos Trabalhadores da Administração Local - STAL (the Union)
-
> staldn@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> And protest messages to:

> Camara Muncipal de Sintra
> Presidente Edite Estrela
> cm-sintra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> fax + 21 923 86 56
>
> With copies to francisrap@xxxxxxxxxxx
> fax ('For the Attention of': Francisco Raposo, delegado sindical do
STML)
> + 21 342 50 01
>
> Yours,
Fraternally,
Francisco Raposo