Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #295 - 52 th confederal
CGT congress: Unions push to the left ! (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. cnt.es: June 7 to 10. CNT calls a four-day strike at
Industrias Cárnicas La Cope de Torrent (ca) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Britain, brighton solfed: 'I train people for free because
that's how it works': CJ Barbers owner Cyrus Shabani admits to
not paying worker (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Poland, rozbrat.org: Position of the Wielkopolska Tenant
Association regarding evictions to substandard premises
rozbrat.org [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Britain, anarchist communist group ACG: New ACG pamphlet on
NHS (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Demands, yellow vests, general strikes, class struggle, anticapitalism, internationalism
dominated delegates' interventions during five days of debate. On many occasions, union
delegates loudly voiced their distrust of the confederal leadership, which was defeated on
several votes. Left all ? ---- During the opening speech (1:40 anyway), the Secretary
General, Philippe Martinez, for the sake of mine clearance, had raised all the problems
posed to the CGT, but without proposing any response. It will not have been enough. The
guidance documents were relatively tasteless, excessively long and often contradictory.
They had, however, been somewhat colored by the integration of about half of the
amendments tabled by the unions. For example, the amendment calling for a strike on World
Women's Rights Day on 8 March has been incorporated.
By demanding a vote on certain rejected amendments, the congressmen have several times
failed to put the management in the minority, and sometimes imposed an addition. All in an
electric atmosphere where the congress office has redone two votes, paying dear each small
maneuver or posture authoritarian.
For clarity on union unity
With Martinez, the notion of "unionism gathered" is no longer quite the same as the time
of Viannet-Thibault - where it was to obtain the agreement of the CFDT before deciding on
an objective. The formula continues to thrill a good half of the room with anger. Not
without confusion with frankly sectarian amendments and others that more accurately evoke
the search for unity on clear claims.
Syndicate students ?
While there are already some CGT student unions recognized by their local union (UL) or
their departmental union (UD), several motions have put the record on the table.
Management has rejected the proposal, saying it would break the unity with existing youth
organizations. The current implosion of what remains of the Unef could however help to
change the situation.
Passing arms on Internationalism
Proponents of a return of the CGT in the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU)
[1]promised to make the subject "the mother of battles". They had to pull it down. The
management has played finely (as it can sometimes !), For example by inviting an
independent Iranian trade unionist, just out of prison and facing the Iranian state union
affiliated to the WFTU ... In the end, the FSM did not dare to submit to a vote or a
withdrawal of the CGT from the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC, social-liberal)
or an observer status to the WFTU. They and they were satisfied with a symbolic victory:
the addition of "FSM In a sentence that already stipulated that the CGT would work with
combative unions, regardless of their international affiliation.
Read "International trade unionism: A panorama to see clearly" , AL September 2018.
Action strategy and yellow vests
Many interventions have criticized the confederation for not having a mobilization plan or
clear demands. If the majority took care to specify that there is no magic button to
trigger the general strike, the answer was generally that the confederation was not there
to "pilot" but to "support" the struggles. This illuminates the coldness of the device. On
yellow vests, it is the illegible strategy of the CGT which has been denounced. Especially
since some and some delegates gave examples of successful convergences, even union
strengthening through the links woven.
The jigsaw puzzle of isolated unionists
More than 80,000 isolated, attached to no union, never have a voice, and their mandates
are monopolized at conferences. To solve this problem, the Confederal leadership is
pushing for the creation of multiprofessional unions. But if these structures (in fact
mini-UL) can be a stepping stone, they do not solve the problem posed by the dominant
model, the trade union, which each finds that it is viable only in the very large
companies. An Airbus union has chosen to become a "site union " To include subcontractors.
Proposing to reflect on the benefits of the local industry union, the SGLCE (Paris Book)
was rejected at the price of rough handling, the congress office saying that there was no
question of imposing a "model unique" ...
Blocking of the industrial zone of Babeuf, Normandy, in 2016, by a post CGT.
Declining on regional committees
The rise of regional committees, adapted to the new administrative regions, was surrounded
by a thousand precautions: UL and UD remained theoretically essential in the territories.
The delegates, however, fired red balls against the project of management, rightly
accusing him of wanting to caporize the CGT, create new layers of bureaucracy, copy the
CFDT, siphon means already insufficient for UL and UD. .. The management preferred to
throw in the towel and pushed the issue to the next congress.
Around the Confederal Executive Board
During the confederal conference, from 13 to 17 May, an analysis ticket was published
every day on the blog of the Libertarian Communists of the CGT .
After so much tension, the delegates nevertheless largely validated the list presented to
the Confederal Executive Committee (CEC), despite a battle to maintain four names refused
- three outgoing and one applicant. This last, carried by the UD of Seine-Maritime,
resulting from the extreme left and virulent actor of the debates, did not find favor
neither with the direction nor with the congressists. The candidate carried by the UD
Val-de-Marne, just as virulent, but integrated by management, was protected by his
membership of the PCF ... There is a danger for the CGT: confuse the return to Radical
positions with the return to the old CGT-PCF complicities.
Bring this thrust to the left on the ground
How will management take into account the debates ? With only 70% approval of the
confederal guidelines, a figure similar to that of Marseille in 2016, we can see the
stability of a base - admittedly heterogeneous - of 30% of delegates demanding a more
combative CGT. And this despite the filtering upstream in the designation of delegates.
Obliged to take this into account, the congress therefore adopted a final appeal repeating
amendments that were rejected: stronger defense of pension plans, amnesty for yellow vests ...
The Congress has in any case masterfully rejected the idea that the CGT should be less
demanding to regain the place of first trade union organization. It remains to make live
this push left in our unions and structures interpro.
Union activists from the union CGT.
[1] Read "International trade unionism: a panorama to see clearly", Alternative Libertaire
, September 2018. The WFTU was described as "curious trade union-state team" .
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?52e-congres-confederal-CGT-Les-syndicats-poussent-vers-la-gauche
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Message: 2
The union representation of CNT in the workplace has called a strike on June 7, 8, 9 and
10, demanding that the company agree to negotiate the regularization of the situation of
Servicarne workers to comply with the resolutions of the Labor and Social Security
Inspectorate. ---- The irregular situation of the workers who provide services in the
plant of Industrias Cárnicas La Cope SA in the street Carnissers de Torrent has reached
its limit.Since the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate determined that the company had
been taking advantage of the fake Servicarne cooperative to keep workers without labor
rights, the situation has worsened substantially. ---- After the resolution of the
Inspection, the Social Security formalized the registration in the General Scheme to all
the false cooperative members but, to this day, they continue to provide services through
Servicarne, sinceLa Cope refuses to hire them directly. - against the criterion of the
Ministry of Employment and of the Social Security itself, which has already filed an ex
officio application requesting the recognition of the employment relationship. On the
contrary,the company continues trying by all means that the staff of the slaughterhouse is
hired through a third company interposed to avoid complying with the findings of the
Inspection.
The union believes that the use of an interposed company as the only alternative proposed
by La Cope would consolidate an illegal transfer of workers, and considers it shameful
that a company like Acciona Services can lendto a possible agreement in this regard. CNT
does not rule out interposing as many demands as necessary to paralyze this legal nonsense.
Therefore,from CNT we believe that the time has come for the company to sit down to
dialogue and seek solutions to regularize this unfortunate situation . There are viable
alternatives with minimal business damage and the strike is intended as a warning for the
search for solutions.
CNT has called this first strike as the start of the mobilizations that are being
organized for the coming months, without ruling out the possibility of calling strikes of
longer duration. A demonstration has also been calledon Saturday, June 8, which will visit
the center of Torrentto inform the population of what is happening in La Cope, a company
widely known in the municipality.
https://www.cnt.es/noticias/7-al-10-de-junio-cnt-convoca-una-huelga-de-cuatro-dias-en-industrias-carnicas-la-cope-de-torrent/
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Message: 3
'I train people for free because that's how it works': CJ Barbers owner Cyrus Shabani
admits to not paying worker ---- In this video, the owner of CJ Barbers, Cyrus Shabani,
admits to not paying a worker who worked for him for two months, claiming 'that's how it
works'. As we have pointed out to CJ Barbers multiple times, that is not how it works.
This worker's employment did not meet the standards of an apprenticeship (for which he
still should have been paid), so he is owed at least the national minimum wage for the two
month's work he has done. That's what we are demanding, and that's what we will continue
to fight for until CJ Barbers pay up. ---- https://vimeo.com/339827409 ---- More info on
this dispute: ----
http://www.brightonsolfed.org.uk/brighton/no-work-without-pay-boycott-cj-barbers ----
http://www.brightonsolfed.org.uk/brighton/cj-barbers-dispute-business-threatens-to-blacklist-solfed-membe
http://www.brightonsolfed.org.uk/brighton/i-train-people-for-free-because-thats-how-it-works-cj-barbers-owner-cyrus-shabani-admits-to
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Message: 4
For a long time, the Wielkopolska Tenant Association has been receiving information and
adopting interventions regarding the eviction of tenants from municipal resources to the
Top Hotel on Torowa Street. We have pointed out many times in the past that the former
working-class hotel on Torowa should not be a destination for displacement of people with
low financial resources, especially in cases where other social or health reasons are
arguing against it. It is not allowed to treat rooms in a hotel as independent social
housing. ---- he infrastructure of the Top Hotel as well as its peripheral location
generate a deterioration in the living conditions of the arriving people. In fact,
resettlements to him are evictions "to the pavement", because indebted and deprived
tenants, ultimately are removed from their lodgings and either become "clients" of
shelters for the homeless, or make desperate attempts to rent an apartment on the open
market; after which the rent debt occurs, it is decided to evict them and returns to the
entities responsible in our city for housing assistance.
It should also be noted that these people are most often victims of neglect of the
previous, long-term housing policy of the state and self-government, leading to the debt
of tenants and limiting access to housing assistance. The city of Poznan did not comply
with the constitutional obligations of guaranteeing the roof over the head of the poorest
inhabitants of our community, including the provision of social housing. The change in the
policy course observed for the past three years in this respect does not absolve the
current authorities from responsibility for the current anti-social self-government policy.
WSL expects the Top Hotel to be finally considered a residential substandard and treated
like a container housing estate. We are categorically opposed to further displacements to
the Top Hotel.
http://www.rozbrat.org/dokumenty/lokalizm/4672-2019-06-03-13-37-08
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Message: 5
It's out, the Anarchist Communist Group's new pamphlet on the NHS, Our NHS? Anarchist
Communist Thoughts on Health. ---- With sections on: Health and Capitalism; The NHS, Why
We Should Defend It and Move Beyond It; Working Fpr The NHS; What Changes in Health
Services Do We Want To See?and Conclusion: Why Should We As Anarchist Communists Defend
The NHS. ---- An important new pamphlet, it clearly lays out Anarchist Communist views on
health, a must get.
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https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2019/06/03/new-acg-pamphlet-on-nhs/
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