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Germany 1983, 90 min
by Ingrid Molnar, Gerhard Brockmann

1983 in Germany the 'shipyard crisis' reached a climax: shipbuilding in Hamburg's HDW-Werk-Ross is to be discontinued and 1354 employees laid off.After negotiations with the Executive Board of the Salzgitter Group, demonstrations and appeals to politicians remain ineffective. On September 16, 1983 the colleagues decide not only to go on strike but to squat the shipyard. A step that many could never have imagined.At daily meetings the 'how to continue' is discussed under fears and hopes. A great

Germany 1983, 60 min
by Ingrid Molnar, Katrin Meier

Wives and friends of shipyard workers of Hamburg's traditional shipyard Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH (HDW) and its neighbouring supplier MAN (a subsidiary of Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg GmbH) are developing a strategy for mobilising the media to point out planned mass layoffs.A hunger strike lasting several days in the first week of September 1983 tagsüber at the Landungsbrücken and at night in the rooms of the main church St. Michaelis, combined with the distribution of leaflets,