(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #226 - Companies: The class struggle is also in SMEs! (fr)

While the struggles that lay large boxes are rightly under the spotlight in the small and 
medium enterprises (SMEs) as the attacks increase. Response is difficult to build. ---- 
France has 2.55 million SMEs, which account for 97.4% of companies and 48% of employee-es. 
Flower Pellerin, socialist minister, believes that " the class struggle n [y] is not . " 
The reality is quite different interests between employers and employee-es are 
antagonistic, first put their work force available and do not collect the fruit, do not 
decide to work organization, rhythm, investments, etc.. ---- Specific ---- The myth of the 
nice SMEs against the evil multinational alibi for those who want to reduce the violence 
of the economic system limited to a few excess CAC 40 companies. Of course, a small, often 
subcontractor or subsidiary of a large group, is directly the choice of ordering.

Therefore, how to mobilize when the company loses a contract and it appears inevitable 
fire risk, if not close? Yet SMEs play a specific role in the organization and the 
capitalist division of labor. They undermine their own employee-es, while serving in 
blackmail against those of large companies. The lack of implementation of association, 
trade union rights in companies with fewer than 11 employees are-the massive use of CSD 
and interim can break a collective work. The legal structure of the economy in many SMEs, 
using variable adjustment but themselves stakeholders of this system gives the illusion of 
isolated cases. Thus, the employee-'re not positioned in relation to their "business", 
which easily leads to "understand the difficulty of the boss."

The construction and automotive

Take the fight at PSA. If the employee-es of the Aulnay plant have been on strike for 
weeks, the situation is radically different from the subcontractors. Considered as 
employee-es-es second class, those who are working are struggling to participate in the 
fight then they will be the first affected. Trade unions play a role here, through their 
choice of structuring their campaigns that cater to certain employee-es and not others, 
the lack of analysis on these companies. The building is another area affected by job cuts 
and poor working conditions. Combine several issues: the outsourcing subcontracting, large 
groups of hundreds of branches, fiscal restraint preventing many projects, a lack of 
policy vision of the city ... In response, trade unionism is almost absent and the 
employee-es have little room for maneuver: how to recreate the link between the different 
sites? How to build a comprehensive response? Just look at the last campaign of the 
National Federation of the building, calling for ever more social dumping, and giving the 
employee-es of individual responses, such as self-entrepreneurship.

However, struggles also exist in SMEs. This led to the cinema Carmelites Orleans 
demonstrated, but this happens from time to time in the industry, even if the media does 
not talk. Revolutionary syndicalism has a key role to play, provided to implement some 
measures identified long: unions that bring employee-es beyond the divisions decided by 
the employers, a battle for re-insourcing activities and therefore, employees are in firms 
donating order, tours and permanence in the direction of the latter, the development of 
local unions inter ...

Mouldi C (AL Transcom) and RoberK (AL Montreuil)