Amsterdam, 16 april 1997

Hi Chris,

This morning we had a strike in Rotterdam.
They blocked a Highway for 3 hr.

They have been told that out of 1100 dockers 200 will be sacked and 330 have to work in casualisation.

They say for those 330 work is for 3 days a week and so they will be paid for 3 days.

This is too crazy to be true.
What is going on in this idiot world?

We were in solidarity, of course, and we sent a delegation to Rotterdam. We had a lot of banners and loudspeakers.

The Rotterdam dockers give the bobo's 1 week's ultimatum to turn everything back.
So you can imagine what is going to happen next week.
Of course we mentioned ("exactly the same facts" as told before) Liverpool, Amsterdam, Santos, Seoul and now Rotterdam is joining.

The next action will hopefully be together and will be a fight.
We have had enough of talking and go in action.

We keep online,

Groetjes,

Ron Wiechels
Arbeidspool


Amsterdam and Rotterdam