#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #SPAIN #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Spaine, CNT #Valencia:[28G]NO REPRESSION, NO LABOR REFORMS! FIGHTING IS THE ONLY WAY! (ca, de, it, pt)[machine translation]

 The unions CNT, Intersindical Valenciana, CGT and COS call a protest rally

demanding the repeal of all labor reforms that have meant a loss of rights for
the working class. Convened for Friday, January 28, at 6:30 pm in Plaza Los
Pinazo (Calle Colon). ---- If we look at both the "reform" process and the
repressive actions, we can easily see what the real intentions and forms of
management of class conflicts are by the current government. This new labor
counter-reform does not repeal previous labor reforms, nor does it imply any
amendment to the deployment of tanks and uniforms to appease labor and social
struggles.

This new labor counter-reform does not repeal anything. Despite the election
promises that brought the current government to power, it is clear that the
approved agreement has not led to any repeal, in whole or in part, of the 2012
labor reform, or even its "most damaging aspects." . The 2010 labor reform of the
Zapatero government, which laid the foundations for the great deregulatory
offensive implemented and promoted in 2012 by the PP, has nothing to do with it
either.

The employer is happy with this agreement. It's not weird. So are the big unions
of the Regime and the Ministry of Labor and the parties that support the Spanish
government. It's not weird either. The ambiguous tricks achieved will allow the
ruling classes to apparently comply with the European Commission's demand to
attack contractual duality in the labor market. They will do so formally, as in
no case does this reform limit the growing power of control of the employer over
the set of working conditions and labor relations, in the day to day of companies.

This reform is defined by both what it says and what it does not say. It defines
new types of contracts and new forms of use for existing ones. It seeks
artificial statistical success in accounting for the rate of temporality, based
on the fact that fixed-term contracts (despite their fundamentally precarious
essence) will not be considered temporary in statistics. He also proclaims as
success things that the courts were already recognizing, because even the same
employers in various sectors had seen regulation as an unnecessary nuisance in
these aspects of the 2012 reform, such as the return to ultra-activity of the
agreements.

He speaks primarily of hiring, unaware (or, even worse, leaving in the shadows),
the fact that business fraud in determining applicable contracts has been one of
the main causes in the savage increase in job insecurity. And that this fraud
cannot be understood from an isolated and abstract definition of the types of
contract, but is a by-product of a set of measures that cover both the
typification of contracts and the possibilities of dismissal, the ability to to
modify the working conditions (schedule, shifts, place...) and the real
possibilities of access to trade union action and impartial courts.

That's not what this new counter-reform says. That the fraud in hiring is not
cured with higher sanctions (although we all think it is good that they are
imposed), because workers in these situations (subcontracting, precariousness,
lack of effective union representation) will not be able to report great thing,
if they can be fired at any time (because this does not affect the fact that an
illegal, illegal, ie unfair, dismissal is something that can be done if you have
money), they can be relocated from their place of work, changed shifts, subjected
to arbitrary and infernal schedules, see how their contracts are not renewed, be
separated from their colleagues or subjected to hypervigilance favored by new
control technologies, and so on.

This was recently said by the representatives of the workers of the auxiliary
companies of the Metal of Cádiz: the problem is not the increase in wages of the
agreement, the problem is that there is no longer an agreement, that the
agreement is dead letter. To believe that the important thing in a chain of
contracts of the current dimensions in many sectors is whether the applicable
agreement is that of the parent company or that of the contract, is not to
understand that the agreement has long been turned into an empty carcass in
precarious, essentially brutal labor relations, turned into an effective employer
dictatorship without real counterweights.

The only possible labor reform against precariousness would be what constitutes a
manifest heresy for all the signatories of this agreement: the effective
strengthening of workers in the workplace, individually and in their processes of
collective self-organization. . This means ending unfair dismissals (if it is
illegal, no dismissal), ending subcontracting chains (if it is in your value
chain, they are your workers), multiplying the possibility of action by the
assemblies of workers in the workplace (if it affects you, you decide), re-set
the limits to business decisions on schedules, shifts, teleworking, etc. ( pacta
sunt servanda, "agreements must be fulfilled" )

The trade unions that sign this communiqué are made up of workers who work, who
see what is happening in companies, who suffer from exploitation but who have
decided to face it. We owe nothing to anyone. We don't live up to agreements.

We work, we earn our salary, we fight for our rights.

We know, therefore, that precariousness is not the product of any isolated
article of the Workers' Statute, which is not resolved by renaming contracts,
which will not be given to us by those who always sell to us, no matter how much
day before Christmas Eve.

And we know, too, that we will have to fight against precariousness, against
exploitation, against injustice, even more so the day after the new labor reform
is approved.

Neither the employer, nor CCOO and UGT, nor the Ministry of Labor will help us.
Their labor reforms are dead lyrics, soft songs to put the girl to sleep, while
the daily brutality of the workers leaves us no choice but to take our liberation
into our own hands.

The trade unions that sign this communiqué will fight and mobilize for the repeal
of labor reforms that have led to a constant attack on our rights as workers.
This new one, the one from 2012 and the one from 2010, to mention the most recent
ones. Made by both supposedly left-wing and right-wing governments and always in
the service of Capital.

Fighting is the only way.

Organized we are stronger.

https://valencia.cnt.es/blog/2022/01/26/28g-ni-repressio-ni-reformes-laborals-la-lluita-es-lunic-cami/#more-13327
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S  N E W S  S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
Send news reports to A-infos-en mailing list
A-infos-en@ainfos.ca