(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #228 - Read: Stephen Penissat: Suppress and domesticate: employer strategies (fr)

We can say that the latter number of Agnone is almost essential reading for revolutionary 
syndicalists and / or class struggle. Indeed, writes Stephen rightly P?nissat who 
coordinated the issue: "the conditions of possibility of industrial action and disputes 
can not be understood only as they are the result of a construction jointly by the union 
and the employer and state actors." This is the heart of the issue: Agnone has chosen to 
highlight the work of political scientists and sociologists on current employer strategies 
vis-?-vis trade unions and trade unionists [ 1 ]. ---- This "Suppress and domesticate" is 
a charge against the mainstream political and media discourse that presents the "social 
dialogue" as the ultimate social relations (as currently demonstrated by the speech of the 
PS for the last Ani).

But the dialogue is obviously an illusion: interclassist, it aims to contain the social 
mobilization and promote unionism acceptance, compromise and support. It is shown that the 
various articles revealing how to put in place strategies that anti-union employers have 
multiple impacts: Employers' ability to manipulate / disarm and collective industrial 
action, a growing fear of a significant portion wage labor to organize, especially because 
of the consequences of union commitment on careers and salaries, especially for members of 
militant trade unions ...

It is the interest and usefulness of this reading. To fight effectively, you must know 
your opponent as much as possible [ 2 ]: its objectives, reflexes, his behavior. Taking 
various input (and opening the United States) points, number facilitates a more 
comprehensive perception of the employer to the strategy is to organize. For us to enjoy ...

Simon Laviec (AL Saint-Denis)

? Penissat Stephen (ed.), "Repression and domesticate: employer strategies," Agony , 2013, 
No. 50, p 256, 20 euros..

[ 1 ] This number is part of the launch of the observatory of repression and 
discrimination of the union initiated in late 2012 by the CFTC, CGT, FO, FSU and Solidarity.

[ 2 ] Such as 10 years ago the book MEDEF, a project company , Thierry Renard Voltairine, 
preface by Alain Bihr Syllepses, 2002.