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Reporters from the <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> spoke to Ford workers in Saarlouis last week and met for discussions with members of the Ford Action Committee.
To the profits-above-all-else programme of the bosses and the unrestrained enrichment of those at the top of the corporation, we counterpose the programme of international workers’ solidarity.
Monday’s speech by works council chairman Markus Thal at the online factory meeting at Ford’s plant in Saarlouis, Germany was a declaration of war on the 4,600-strong workforce.
The Ford Rank-and-File Committee opposes all efforts to divide the workers at the Ford plant in Saarlouis, Germany from their colleagues in Valencia, Spain.
Since IG Metall works council representatives agreed to the “bidding war” between Ford plants in Germany and Spain, they have offered wage cuts, longer working hours, shorter breaks, unpaid overtime and further social cuts.