Union branches across Spain have denounced the Supreme Court\u2019s confirmation of prison sentences against six bakery workers for picketing. The workers were sentenced to three and a half years in prison and a fine of over 100,000 Euro. The workers at\u00a0La Suiza bakery in Gij\u00f3n<\/a>\u00a0took action to protest unpaid overtime and poor working conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n The judgement \u201cequated informational pickets and concentrations of workers at the doors of a private business with coercion and threats\u201d, said the CNT-AIT union in Grenada<\/a>, warning that the case could set a dangerous precedent. According to the union, the sentencing shows the latent authoritarianism of Spain\u2019s penal code, whose interpretation allows such prison sentences to be handed out at judges\u2019 discretion. The CNT-AIT have called on Spain\u2019s ruling centre-left coalition to repeal this repressive law, to no avail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are talking about a union action of fourteen demonstrations without arrests, violence, or police charges\u201d, said the workers\u2019 lawyer Victoria Gal\u00e1n<\/a>. \u201cThat is what is surprising, that the rallies are considered coercion and that the ruling makes business freedom prevail over union freedom, with the argument that it is annoying that if someone enters the bakery they are booed\u201d. In the UK, recent minimum service laws similarly <\/a>threaten workers\u2019 ability to strike, with no indications of their repeal by the new Labour government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ~ Gabriel Fonten<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Suiza 6 face three and a half years each for protesting outside their workplace Union branches across Spain have denounced the Supreme Court\u2019s confirmation of prison sentences against six bakery workers for picketing. The workers were sentenced to three and a half years in prison and a fine of over 100,000 Euro. The workers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abcf.net\/losangeles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abcf.net\/losangeles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abcf.net\/losangeles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abcf.net\/losangeles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abcf.net\/losangeles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.abcf.net\/losangeles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/www.abcf.net\/losangeles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abcf.net\/losangeles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abcf.net\/losangeles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abcf.net\/losangeles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}