Spain: Unemployed
take food from Mercadona and Carrefour in mass action in Andalucia
The
Spanish field workers union the SAT has gone en masse to two
supermarkets to take food by direct action.
26
April, 2012
Unemployed
fieldworkers and other members of the union went to two supermarkets,
one in Ecija (Sevilla) and one in Arcos de la Frontera (Cadiz) and
loaded up trolleys with basic necessities.
They
said that the people were being expropriated and they planned to
“expropriate the expropriators”.
In
Arcos the police blocked the doors of the supermarket and prevented
them from leaving, but in Ecija, due to other demonstrators creating
a diversion, they managed to leave with twenty trolleys of food.
The
foodstuffs, including milk, sugar, chickpeas, pasta and rice, have
been given to charities to distribute, who say they are unable to
cope with all the requests for help they receive.
Unemployment
in the Sierra de Cadiz is now 40%. The union say that Mercadona, one
of the supermarkets concerned, has a huge number of complaints
against them for bullying and persecution of workers.
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