France, Alternative Libertaire AL #241 - Repression Post: The state shareholder worse than the private (fr, pt)

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For several months, the Post Office, directions began a tussle with unionism struggle. The 
company will undergo profound changes affecting the public service, jobs and working 
conditions. Consequence: loads cons union activists, violations of the right to strike and 
pressure on the strikers multiply. ---- If the Post strikes like any boss, it is trying to 
silence the union. Nearly a dozen union activists are within the scope of dismissal 
procedure for strike action. ---- While it is common for companies in dismissals of trade 
unionists, the State boss goes much further: the allegations are under union action - 
speaking in facilities without informing the employer , traveling in institutions against 
the advice of the local director, have brought trade unionists on strike from another 
facility...

In fact, the employer does not want that postmen and postwomen went on strike after 
general meetings. This management strategy is all the more worrying that union 
representatives are not considered protected employee-es-es to the Post. So thank you to 
the employer at the slightest deviation. Often these same activists are also prosecuted in 
the criminal courts for alleged acts of violence, kidnapping or insults...

Thus, four activists of South-PTT in the Hauts-de-Seine were summoned to the territorial 
security in Paris on charges of damage or willful violence. Indre-et-Loire, the 
departmental secretary of the South was summoned to court for calling and insults. In 
Is?re, a South activist who had been dismissed for union facts has meanwhile been 
reinstated after legal decisions.

Repressive climate

These attacks are not limited to union activists. The company is constantly hovering above 
the strike threats. Whenever a strike is ongoing and takes forms of confrontation hard 
with employers, the employer will try to discourage employee-es to strike: pressures, 
misinformation, everything is done to prevent the strike to develop within the company.

By establishing such a repressive climate, it's about getting the strike to an archaic, 
unreasonable method, which is not in what the boss calls a responsible social dialogue, in 
a company where there is not a day without conflict. And it sometimes with the backing of 
some unions in conflict since the CFDT went to ask the Post Office and the Labour 
Inspectorate to dismiss trade unionists!

It is also not surprising that the public company uses repressive methods which aim 
primarily at getting corporate restructuring when one remembers Hollande and Valls spoke 
during the strike to SNCF June to end the strike at any cost.

The Post is not the only one concerned. Cases of repression are increasing in all 
businesses for union facts. But also when trade unionists clash employers or governments. 
This is also the case in Europe and worldwide.

As the crisis continues, the employers and the government conduct anti-worker policies, 
cases of repression are likely to multiply. Support committee, class solidarity, we need 
everyone supporting each union or employee-e-e attacked.

Hugo (AL Orleans)