This book documents the last ten hard-won years of Opel Plant 1 in Bochum from 2004 to 2014. It is not a book about cars, not a book about managers, and not a book about works council functionaries. It is a book about workers.
A book about an unbending workforce that prevented the closure of its plant for ten years and so became a symbol and example across national boundaries. A workforce that gained the sympathy and solidarity of the entire working-class movement for its struggle, but also incurred all the hatred of those in power and their cronies. This struggle provides impressive confirmation of what Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote in 1848 in their Manifesto of the Communist Party:
"Now and then the workers are victorious, but only for a time. The real fruit of their battles lies, not in the immediate result, but in the ever-expanding union of the workers."
Sprache
Maße
Höhe: 21.5 cm
Breite: 29.7 cm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-3-88021-555-9 (9783880215559)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Herausgeber*in
Industriemechanikerin
Annegret Gärtner-Leymann, born in 1977. After training to become an industrial mechanic, assembly worker in body final assembly until the closure of Opel Plant 1. Since 2015 warehouse worker in the parts and accessories warehouse of Opel in Bochum.
Active unionist in the metalworkers' union IG Metall, former youth representative, and works council member from 2006 to 2015. Owing to the leading role she played in the struggle of the workforce, known beyond the plant as representative of the international automotive workers' movement.
Energieelektroniker
Trained as energy electronics technician, assembly worker in vehicle final assembly until the closure of Opel Plant 1. Since 2015 warehouse worker in the parts and accessories warehouse of Opel in Bochum.
Reichelt, Steffen
Deputy head of the body of shop-floor union representatives of IG Metall from 2012 to 2016, since 2015 works council member for the OFFENSIV list.
