Day of the Locusts

As John Barker's article 'Intensities of Labour' (on this site) alerts us, intensified work is another key component of capitalist predation today. Looting by locusts with stop watches...

Confronting the terror of work and the dictatorship of money

Global Action Day for the global struggle at Gate Gourmet 7 - 8 April 2006

- Strike at Airport Düsseldorf since 7 October, 2005

- Struggle against the mass sacking of 800 workers at London-HeathrowAirport since 10 August, 2005

- Conflict at many other Gate Gourmet locations

Gate Gourmet is the world’s second largest catering company for airlineswith more than one hundred locations. It has 22,000 employees working in 29countries. Gate Gourmet is the paradigm for how capital tries to squeeze themost out of workers.

In 2002, Gate Gourmet was bought out of the bankruptcy assets of Swissairby Texas Pacific Group. This investment and buyout in particular triggeredthe so called debate in Germany about “locusts