Brighton SolFed

Multinational banking group Santander was targeted for union busting across the breadth of their empire on Tuesday 1st October 2013 by the anarcho-syndicalist International Workers Association (IWA). A number of actions were held in Britain by the Solidarity Federation (SF-IWA). In Bristol, the local SF-IWA section was joined by members of Bristol Anarchist Federation, BARF & migrant Spanish workers to deliver a message of resistance to the company and solidarity with the sacked union organiser of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT-IWA) union. The CNT has been organising within Isban, a computer services company owned by the Santander Group into which thousands of workers have been transferred. Workers at Isban are controlled and dismissed through the use of employment agencies. Pay and conditions have deteriorated at the same time that the banking group’s profits have soared. Workers organising in Spain have been targeted by a company anxious to maintain control over its ‘resources’. Just as the company’s tentacles reach across the globe, so does our resistance and organisation. Judging by the response of the folk of South Bristol to us on Tuesday, it is clear whose side the people are on too. For more information see: http://www.iwa-ait.org/content/1st-october-day-action-against-santander-bank-worldwide