The day of action called by the International Workers' Association on March 6th finished
with dozens of protest actions in 13 different countries. CNT and IWA demand the
reinstatement of the worker dismissed from Isban and Panel Sistemas because of denouncing
the trafficking of staff. ---- IWA anarchist worker unions showed, once again, that
working class solidarity has no borders. ---- Thousands of leaflets were distributed
around the world, hundreds of posters and stickers were stuck, hundreds of protest faxes
and e-mails were sent, dozens of branches of the Bank were visited, numerous pickets were
organized, banners informing of the conflict were hung and other boycott actions were
carried out. ---- Solidarity Federation (SolFed) did several actions in England in places
like Brighton and Newcastle. --- In Argentina, FORA organized a picket in Neuqu?n Capital.
In Germany, FAU unions organized protest actions in Berlin, Cologne, Dresden, Erfurt, Jena
AIT-Sec??o Portuguesa (IWA Portuguese section) did pickets in Lisbon and Porto.
ZSP from Poland picketed at the doors of Santander Bank central offices in Warsaw.
Confedera??o Oper?ria Brasileira (COB) carried out picketing in Brasil in cities like Araxa.
In Uruguay, anarchists spread the conflict at the central branch of Santander R?o in
Montevideo.
In the United States of America, a protest took place at a branch of Santander Bank in
downtown Philadelphia.
IWA sections in places where there are no offices of any of the companies involved in the
conflict, sent their demands by fax and e-mail. That was the case of NSF from Norway, KRAS
from Russia and PA (Priama Akcia) from Slovakia.
Also in France, anarcho-syndicalists sent communications to Emilio Bot?n and Santander ,
Isban and Panel Sistemas managers.
CNT unions also did numerous pickets in the Spanish state in places such as Albacete,
Barcelona, Donostia, Gij?n, Granada, Guadalajara, Madrid, Jerez, Ontinyent, Oviedo, Rivas,
Sabadell, Sagunt, Salamanca, Santa Perpetua, Santander, Vigo Tarragona,
At the end of this article, we keep on receiving news about actions in solidarity like the
ones organized in M?laga on March 6th and Gijon on March 10th.
BOYCOTT SANTANDER BANK, ISBAN & PANEL SISTEMAS
In August 2013, the CNT-AIT section in Isban publically denounced illegal trafficking of
staff from Panel Sistemas to Isban, IT services company owned by the Santander group.
This provokes the concealed dismissal of the union delegate, precarious worker illegally
outsourced, wich is trasferred from Isban to the "meat trader" company Panel Sistemas.
There he suffers harrasment from the board until he is definitively fired on last March
3rd 2014.
Revolutionary unions federated in the IWA have responded to the attack, demanding the
reinstate-ment in Isban-Banco Santander of the dismissed worker where the multinational
has its headquarters. Conflict has been spread worlwide in 12 different languages.
Isban has a network of companies, "meat traders", that provide cheap and precarious labour
force for Banco Santander.
It has more than 10,000 workers illegally outsourced from other companies, who can be
fired at any minute without cost since they are not considered the bank's own employees.
Panel Sistemas is one of dozens companies making profits of illegal outsurcing for big
"clients" engaged on massive steady job destruction such as Isban.
Workers are afraid they would be fired at the slightest protest, which causes them to
accept surreal working hours, overtime and obligatory transfers, working schedules on
behalf of the company, employment categories and salaries below the work performed
Hundreds of irregular dismissals in the Santander group have mainly hit the most
unprotected workers, with complicity of the government and yellow unions. Meanwhile,
Santander group's net profit has risen up to 4,370,000,000 euros in 2013, almost doubling
that of 2012.
Emilio Bot?n, Rodrigo Rato, Alfredo S?enz, Jose Mar?a Amus?tegui, and other high rank
executives in Banco Santander have been accused of crimes before and even found guilty in
first instances. But there has never been justice, thanks to legal chicanery such as
famous "doctrina Bot?n".
Some of their most known outrages include continued tax evasion, irregular purchasing of
banks such as Banesto or Totta and the collapse and later bailout of Bankia, multi-million
severance packages for managers, the case of the Swiss bank accounts of the Bot?n family,
sale of junk mortgages and assets, evictions and real estate speculation, charging of
abusive interest rates, shady dealing with universities, participation in arms companies
or in financial management of the terrible penitenciary system. A long list of crimes
unpunished to date.
We will not shut up or resign ourselves. While there is exploitation and inequality we
will stand up, united peers without subsidies or leaders. Fighting for our dignity and
emancipation. Towards Social Revolution.
RIGHTS ARE WON THROUGH STRUGGLE
Secci?n sindical en Isban y Panel Sistemas
Sindicato de Telecomunicaciones y Servicios Inform?ticos
CNT-AIT Madrid
More photos:
informaticamadrid.cnt.es
* www.iwa-ait.org/sites/default/files/documents/iwa_external_bulletin_no.8_june_2014.pdf
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