Pierburg Ihr Kampf ist unser Kampf

13 August 1973 Despite the arduous piecework they perform women migrant workers at Neussbased carburettor manufacturer Pierburg are in the lowest wage group 2 DM 470 per hour so the women start a fiveday wildcat strike Out of all 3800 employees 70 percent are guest workers the majority of them women The women migrant workers demonstrate against the difference in pay between men and women demanding one more Mark and call for better general living and working conditions The compilation film documents the strike In consultation with the strikers filmmakers Edith SchmidtMarcello and David H Wittenberg assembled the material filmed by various people who experienced the strike firsthand and supplemented it with their own film footage The film was shown at numerous solidarity events and was the public relations vehicle for the workers and the works council It was never shown on television and was initially forgotten