International: trade unions are satisfied with the results of the first e-strike at IBM

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1 October 2007 à 10h21

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Publication: 1 October 2007 à 10h21

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For the first time, trade unions organized a virtual demonstration on the virtual game website Second Life (see our story 070695) and, by doing so, launched a new innovative type of global union fight and tried out new forms of international alliance for workers coming from more than 30 different countries. (Ref. 070805)

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1 October 2007 à 10h21

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Almost 2.000 participants from 30 countries – According to organizers, the first virtual strike on September 27, 2007 brought together 1.853 participants who came to protest in front of IBM’s headquarters on Second Life. This action was launched by the unitary trade union representation body (RSU) IBM Vimercate (in the Milan province) and it was supported by the national secretaries of several trade unions (Fim-Cisl, Fiom-CGIL and Uilm-UIL for Italy, and TUC and Unite among others for foreign u

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