#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ARGENTINA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Argentina, ASL: NOT AT 40 HS IN THE LIBERADXS PATRONAGE! (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]

 In recent weeks, a serious conflict began in the Patronato de Liberadxs de la

Provincia de Buenos Aires that affects the employment situation of many
colleagues, who see how the State, in complicity with the provincial leadership
of Ate, tries to take away rights won in historical struggles. ---- The Patronato
de Liberadxs is an autarkic body that aims to supervise and work for the
inclusion of people deprived of their liberty. There is a part that works in
pre-discharge, before people leave, to take into account how their departure will
be, if it will be received by the family, for example. It is an organization that
has very few social programs to deal with very strong, hard problems of
structural exclusion. It includes people who come out of jail or people who are
in conflict with criminal law, who may be at liberty, fulfilling a judicial
process or community tasks. The board of trustees has to send reports to the
courts on the rules of conduct that have been set for these people and also see
what demands are arising from the people from the bond that is being established.
To delve into the particularities of the situation, we spoke with our colleague
Romina, delegate from the Moreno Board of Trustees, who answered some questions,
also telling us about the perspectives of organization and struggle among the
workers.
What is the conflict in the Patronato de Liberadxs?
We have been seeing that in other offices in La Plata and in other work sectors
they were implementing a pass of 30 to 40 hours of work. We were informed about
it and right from the start we found out that there was a joint union with the
union where this issue was going to be discussed, the passing of the hourly
regime and the removal of the bonus for special task that we won many years ago.
 From there, coordination began with the internal Human Rights Board of La Plata
to try to prevent this pass, which in the Board of Trustees we understand as a
blow to the entire working class. Because more hours of work is not an increase
in salary. It is worsening the working conditions of the working class, they are
jobs that are lost, in a country where there are a lot of unemployment. It
disrupts the daily life of the companions especially, who have care tasks and who
have many tasks at home after work. And even colleagues who have several jobs,
because they do not make ends meet and are heads of household.
The rejection is strong at those forty hours because it generates a lot of
discomfort in the daily lives of the workers, an overexploitation. In addition,
health care is not taken into account, because working with social problems for
many years and really very hard, ends up having an impact on the health of the
workers as well. In this way, the quality of care decreases depending on the
degree of exploitation.
For all these reasons, this coordination with Human Rights began, trying to stop
this regime change.
In what way have they been organizing to deepen the conflict and strengthen unity
in the struggle?
In the patronage punctually, as we are in each district of the entire Province of
Buenos Aires, there are 90 delegations. What we do is meet virtually, have
virtual assemblies of workers and there define the steps to follow. As I said
before, we came in coordination with Human Rights, but beyond that, we are trying
to strengthen ourselves from within. We want to reach the delegations that we are
not able to, because we do not have the sections of the union in which we are
organized to reach all the offices. So we are working on this.
We held an assembly with the sectors that had already gone through this so that
the comrades could ask questions. In the middle of that assembly, we learned that
the union was going to a joint union with a position favorable to regime change,
without consulting us. That made us immediately have to go out the next day, go
to the Ministry of Labor and present a note calling for the strike for the
following week, formally rejecting the 40 hours, understanding that this worsens
the living conditions of workers.
What role is the union playing in the development of the situation?
When we talk about the union, we make a caveat. We refer to the role of the
provincial leadership of Ate. Because we are also Ate, we are delegates,
affiliates, an organic part of the union. We always try to stay within that
margin and also with degrees of autonomy, since we are not nucleades in an
internal Board. We have a provincial plenary that we build ourselves, from below.
It was very resisted by the union, but we managed to impose it at that historical
moment.
In the context of the pandemic, this instance has been slowed down quite a bit,
but not only for that reason, but because obviously the regime change has been
weaving and they (the leadership of La Verde Anusate of the Province of Buenos
Aires) have been reading that we were going to be against what was being
promoted. So they directly sat down to sign with the employers, without
consulting the delegates or the rank and file or anyone in the sector. They
justified themselves by saying that there are sectors of the Ministry of Justice
that agree, but nobody consulted us anything. So we absolutely reject it. We left
the union a note rebuking the people who act as a link between the union and the
management, because obviously they have personal positions or those of the
union's leadership, but not those of the workers and at least in our logic it has
to be in a representative position from the position of those who are going to
work and put the body, the head and wear ourselves in this work for many years.
On the other hand, it has an absolutely managerial, undemocratic, authoritarian
and bureaucratic role, because not allowing the space that we win with struggle
to be a transmission belt of what has been happening in our work sector, is that
of a bureaucrat. And that seems reprehensible to me, a union like Ate cannot have
those policies, it ends up being more similar to Upcn.
They have the problem that where they go and tell lies, we communicate and find
out right away. In Mar del Plata they said that we were in an assembly and
approved the 40 hours. In San Nicolás they also stated that we agreed. We are
finding out and we say to them that no, that it is a lie. That is not liars and
misogynists, because they think we are assholes because we are women.
What tasks have you been carrying out to strengthen the development of awareness
and self-management among workers?
What we have been doing, on the one hand, is to strengthen the provincial
assemblies: we have a provincial WhatsApp group, shared networks to spread the
word, we try to link what happens here in the small with the board of trustees,
relating it to what happens at a more macro level. , understanding that this is
part of the adjustment, of the IMF plan, that the reduction in public policy has
to do with that. And that we increase our working hours, implies that fewer
workers have a job. In this sense, we are working on the awareness and importance
of the participation of all colleagues affected by the situation, because each
voice is irreplaceable in each workplace, in each office. We can lose, win, but
what cannot be replaced is that being, inhabiting each comrade in their
workplace, in the transmission with their comrades, in the collective decision
with them and with the rest of the Province. That gives us the awareness of the
strength of a body that makes decisions. And we have a lot of history behind us:
we have passed the femicide of our partner, the bonus that they want to get from
us is earned by occupying the board of trustees, the Ministry of the Economy. We
come from an exercise that is in the consciousness of the compas.
So there is a historical process that we were and are part of, we have it
internalized. And we know how things change when we get involved or how they do
not change when we leave it to the leadership of a union that is becoming more
and more bureaucratized. The commitments they have with the governance structure
rather than with workers are increasingly being noted.
We did have the presence in the last activity we did, in tower two, where the
offices of justice and the Board of Trustees are located, of Nora Quercia,
general secretary of Ate Lomas de Zamora. Few sections are committed but they are
very valuable, because they are our pillar to help us give that framework that we
want, which is that we are Ate. We are not the direction of Ate that appears on
the papers, but we are the ones who direct the destinies in our work and in our
daily lives. We are that force and we rely on colleagues who think and build like
us. I want to mention it because it is a minority within Ate but they are very
valuable experiences for the class.
For more information and an update on the conflict:
https://www.facebook.com/1380295268961314/posts/3213949522262537/

https://www.facebook.com/AccionSocialistaLibertaria/posts/1370945116656855
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