Cort guitars and talk about the campaign No Cort ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7 pbKvES) to an unaware audience. After a number of songs, slogans, music improvisation, the managers of the store looked out and tried to understand what was going on. They were three men in suit of about sixty; with a serious look they scanned that shapeless and noisy mass that disturbed the quiet Muzak of a Saturday evening which should be ordinary. A police van stood a few metres far from the footpath and watched that the situation wouldn’t grow inflamed. But the shopping didn’t stop, so they looked serene.
The action On the opposite side off the street, a few metres far from the luxury shopping centre, was the target point where the Cort workers wanted to take action. It was Saturday, about 5 pm, and the shopping rustling was at the top. A group composed by about fifty militants was standing in front of the Kawai shop-window, where a piano in bright plexiglas suddenly captured our look. No need to wait for long to see every kind of instrument and banners and coloured posters. Drums, accordions, violins, trumpets began to animate to tell the passersby the reasons for the protest.
A delegation of workers went into the shop and began the negotiations. The purpose of this negotiation was to convince the manager to talk to the owner of the Kawai, referring the workers’ requests and putting pressure directly on the Cort head office, which sold the guitars.
Beside them and the Korean Metal Workers Union, there are the Freeters from Tokyo and various cultural activists from New York, and we are there to represent the Euromayday Network; not to mention the virtual support from hundreds of musicians that during their concerts and performances in tour around the world, give their aid boycotting the
They looked seriously at each other, we couldn’t follow the conversation but for sure the workers were telling of how the superior court of South Korea decided on August to consider the mass dismissals made by Cort were illegal: because after ten years of earnings, just a year crisis didn’t justify this kind of behaviour. But in spite of
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