Involved at the heart of production processes, trade unionism has a major role to
play in linking social and ecological demands, in the face of an economy and aglobalized climate crisis. But it must also manage its internal contradictions onthe employment front in the face of dangerous or unnecessary productions. ----Never again that (PJC) is the unprecedented alliance of the unions of struggle:CGT, FSU, Solidaires, Confédération paysanne, with the combative associations ofthe social and ecological movement: Greenpeace, Amis de la Terre, Attac, FranceNature Environnement...Alliance bearing hope although installed from above without always achievingunanimity within its various components. While the departmental collectives areslowly developing, the Steering Committee, which meets every two weeks, isstruggling to generate a stronger dynamic despite the interest of the two majorprojects in progress: Papeterie Chapelle Darblay and Raffinerie de Grandpuits.Thus the collective of Creuse, which is preparing action on the industrialfuture, imagines work around food, agriculture and the wood industry, isstruggling to convince the Steering Committee to fully invest.Promising, the alliance is still fragile. Trust between organizations is builtover time. The preponderance of the role of unions in the creation and animationof local collectives via a much more developed territorial network fuels fears ofhegemony.The alliance is still fragileThe place of political organizations that seek to take advantage of the dynamicis not experienced in the same way by union components more accustomed toappealing to politicians than NGOs, who are more careful when it comes to theirindependence and recoveries. The internal tensions in the CGT around thisalliance do not facilitate a more rapid and dynamic development. Finally, thelink between local collectives and the Steering Committee is still not seriouslyclarified.Due to its location, the CGT must play a major role in the animation of thisalliance. All the more so as the CFDT has just launched its "pact of the power tolive" with the Secours Catholique and others and will seek to occupy the field onmuch less radical bases. If the confederal leadership is fully engaged, this isnot without difficulties.First, despite Macron's official speeches, deindustrialization and offshoringcontinues. Unions faced with closures and layoffs are already struggling todefend employment and are struggling to get out of the productivist scheme. Forexample, which book union will refuse to print hyper-market catalogs even if itis perfectly aware of the waste of paper and the damage caused by advertising.And when multinationals manipulate the ecological argument to relocate, theconfusion is at its height ...Added to this is the specific fear of the CGT EDF on the nuclear issue but alsoof the unions in the energy sector. Finally, certain personal and politicalambitions, nostalgic for links with the PCF on the side of thearchaeos-productivists, find here the opportunity to fire on the confederalleadership.Never Again (PJC) is the unprecedented alliance of the fighting unions with thecombative associations of the social and ecological movement.Eco-unionism under constructionNevertheless, it seems that a consensus can be found internally: the recentconference co-organized by the three confederal collectives of ecology, industryand research laid the foundations. According to this conference, the absolute andvital need to phase out carbon-based energy includes a large share of nuclearpower in a mix of measures (while denouncing the risks increased by theultra-liberal management of production: subcontracting, loss of know-how,investment in safety,It was at the initiative of the small inter-union anarcho-syndicalist tendency"Emancipation", especially present in the FSU, and of activists of Pour uneÉcologie populaire et sociale (PEPS)[1]that was held on November 13th. the firstmeeting of an eco-union network whose appeal[2]was quickly countersigned byaround a hundred activists, most of them cégétistes.The forty participants, with various union ties and the wealth of experiences inthe field quickly agreed, given the scale of the project and the modesty of humanand financial resources present (Solidaires announced the presence of itsspokesperson and his non-arrival caused a sincere disappointment), that it wasnecessary to remain humble in the immediate objectives.They have been specified as follows: it is a question of forming a thematicnetwork and not an inter-union trend (let alone a new union in the making). Thisnetwork should be used to collect information on trade union struggles with anenvironmental dimension in order to better support them. It must also provide adatabase and educational tools to help activists debate and convince within theirown union structures. Finally, it proposes to take up the method of the workers'survey to go to the front of workers confronted with this type of struggle, byalso integrating the issue of occupational diseases, a particular dimension ofthe fights around polluting productions.Confronted with the existence of the PJC alliance, from which they aredistinguished by a much greater radicalism, the activists of the eco-unionnetwork do not position themselves in competition with a tool that they considertoo institutional but in complementarity and in all independence to carry outgrassroots actions. The real take-off of this network will depend on itsinvestment by activists available to give it the necessary energy.Jean-Yves (UCL Limousin)To validate[1] Hosted by Patrick Farbiaz, known among others for being a pillar of theAnticolonial Week in Paris.[2] " The planet is burning and society too, call for an eco-union network ",October 28, 2021, on the Confpeps.org site.https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Urgence-sociale-et-climatique-un-eco-syndicalisme-qui-cherche-ses-marques_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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