#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #SPAIN #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) cgt-lkn: The regime unions have done it again (By Antonio Pérez Colllado)

 The Cadiz metal strike has been exemplary in many aspects; so much so that it was

necessary to stop it as soon as possible. As the days of pickets and
demonstrations passed, more companies and neighborhoods from working-class
neighborhoods joined the protests, students called their solidarity strike, in
many Spanish cities mobilizations were announced in support of the metallurgists'
struggle and even The resistance boxes started to work as in the old days. The
repression, including the tank, did not dampen the struggle but rather generated
more solidarity.
The thing could get out of the hands of friendly unions; so friendly that they
even listen to and applaud the boss of the bosses in their congresses. It was
time to repeat the strategy of which the Spanish working class has been a victim
for decades: the unions threaten that this time they are serious, they pretend to
be very angry with an intransigent employer, they call for some more symbolic
than effective mobilization and, as the script indicates, An agreement is signed
that leaves the just and sensible demands of the workers far from being satisfied
. With a bit of bad luck, it is even possible that a cut of consolidated rights
is signed through previous struggles.

But in Cádiz the maneuver was more risky because the working staff was fed up
with years of exploitation, unemployment and precariousness, and they gave
themselves with enthusiasm to the mobilization for an agreement that would put an
end to the dramatic situation that the entire Cadiz bay has been experiencing
since they began. industrial reconversion and company closings. And the fight
began under the banner of unity; syndicated and without affiliation, of CC.OO.
and UGT but also CGT, CNT or the sector coordinator.

The majority union apparatuses had no choice but to call a strike and wait for
the occasion to display their peacekeeping skills. The bosses also knew how to
play hard and wait. From the progressive government they gave signals (in
addition to the sticks that their repressive forces gave in their name) that the
conflict could spread to other sectors that also suffer cuts. In short, employers
and unions had to agree and agree on something presentable that would not appear
to be a defeat for either party.

After a few hours of negotiation, supposedly to the dog's face, the agreement
that we already know was reached and about which it is not necessary to extend
much: the permanent staff of the sector will see their salaries of 2021, 2022 and
2023 raised by 2%, they will have a revision to equalize this rise with the CPI
in 2024 and the rest of the claims regarding reduction of working hours and other
aspects are left in the air. The holders of a temporary contract, who are the
majority, have to settle for 2% and remain indefinitely in the hell of
precariousness in which they live with their families.

Of course, the official and unofficial media went out of their way to tell the
good news of the principle of agreement -which hours later was already an
agreement so firm as to motivate the calling off of the strike- and they went
over the paradox that the consultation on the text of the agreement and the end
of the strike was put to vote last bull and in the places and in the way that the
union executives wanted.

It is an end - we hope momentary - that is not less reportable because it is
known. It has been repeated in countless agreements, closures, reconversions and
ERE of companies and sectors, leaving in the working class the feeling that these
defeats are inevitable and that the struggles, in the best of cases, simply serve
for a frustrating "save the furniture ". However, history and other ways of
organizing resistance show us that it is possible to self-manage our struggles
and win them.

Breaking with a unionism that if something can surprise us is falling even lower
, joining union organizations that do not appear so much -or nothing appears- on
television or enjoy so many perks of governments and companies, but that leave
their skin in the struggles, and fostering decision-making in an assembly-based
way by the staff involved themselves can be a path that allows us to get out of
the mud and pessimism to which so many sung defeats have led us.


https://www.elsaltodiario.com/alkimia/los-sindicatos-del-regimen-lo-han-vuelta-a-hacer

https://www.cgt-lkn.org/blog/archivos/13662
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