When you see 1-Euro-Jobbers being used as strikebreakers against VERDI, you might start to have some strange thoughts:
1-Euro-Jobbers are now being used as strikebreakers against the strike in the service sector. In the Lower Saxony city of Osnabrück, Hartz IV recipients are being forced by the public employer to drive the municipal garbage trucks. At the beginning of the week, this had to be enforced by a massive police operation against the strikers.
But of course, the 1-Euro-Jobs are only about preparing people for work and motivating them. What they are supposed to be motivated to do through such actions, however ...