As a part of the ongoing cleaners’ campaign in Holland on Thursday about 120 migrant workers did a civil disobedience at Schiphol airport’s main plaza (a sit-in).

They shouted for respect and demanded back pay, full time for all the temporary (agency) workers there, and paid transportation. There was a lot of press due to the plane crash the day before so we got a lot of coverage “we remember the dead but we fight for the living” was their slogan, allies from the Turkish airline came to support the action too since a lot of the workers are Turkish themselves.

All of this was also a proactive way to tell the new airport management that the workers wont be paying for the crisis and we wont accept staff cuts or work load increases in the future. Our next escalating action is
on March 16th.

Check out photo’s from the action here.