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On April 27 and 30, there will be actions held in solidarity with FIAT workers in Tychy and Bielsko-Biała, Poland, and Kragujevac and Belgrade in Serbia. Our sister section of the IWA, ASI, will be organizing the actions in Serbia.

FIAT decided to fire 1400 workers in Poland and create the same amount of new jobs in Serbia. They Serbian government is going to pay FIAT 10,000 euro per worker, which is equivalent to about 2.5 years salary. Money for this subsidy has been supplied by the Russian government.

It is obvious that the workers in FIAT are all being used against each other, as the
company goes where the wages are cheap and subsidies are given, ready to throw out the workers at any moment and always using the threat of competition against workers' demands.

We cannot tolerate this exploitation and we will not be divided.

Polish right-wingers try to use this situation and the fact that it is funded by Russia, to create national sentiment and hate against others – they wind up blaming the workers for the problem instead of capitalism.

The ZSP and ASI will protest against this situation amd send a message that workers around the world need to be in solidarity with each other, even when the capitalists are involved in manouevres such as in FIAT.