…Aims of the DCCoordination

This is to show that the DaimlerChrysler Coordination — with the assistance of TIE Germany, and also through the TIE-offices in the US and in Brazil - has nationally and internationally achieved its aim of establishing regular workers’ contacts and developing an internationalism of the rank-and-file. Over the years the group grew from a simple information exchange into a real international cooperation. As such, the forum aims to:

• internationally deepen contacts and information exchange between the workers of DC. One out of many activities was the creation of the DCexchange mailing list in Portuguese, German and English. There are also plans for an international workers’ journal;
• develop common union positions and strategies concerning issues like outsourcing, new production concepts, health and safety, racism, sexism, repression of union organisations and activists in the DC group etc.;
• organize concrete solidarity actions between the workers. For example, the Coordination supported the fight for a factory commission in Juiz de Fora & Campinas/Brazil and the organizing of the plant in Alabama in the US South, and tried to create public attention for these issues;
• organize action against the strategy of pitting the workers of different plants against each other;
• establish a common education platform for the colleagues in different countries.