WORLD WORLDWIDE SPAIN News Journal Update - (en) Spain, CN #435 - Bugués pig Clean it yourself! - Fernando Vegetable (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 THERE IS A MYTH OF SISYPHUS. For some reason he pissed off the gods and

they punished him with an eternal task: climbing a boulder up a
mountain. When he reached the top, the stone fell and started again.
Sisyphus in that move, he looks a lot like the trade unionists. On many
occasions, it seems that all the effort they make is in vain, because
once they succeed or are defeated, a new challenge comes upon them. ----
For example, I was remembering the case of Mrs. Federica Loudspeaker. A
few years ago, the Director of the Hermanos del Pollo Company, called
this cleaner into the office, and told her to wash his Mercedes S63
biturbo with 4Matic permanent all-wheel drive, she angrily responded:
«Bourgeois pig, clean it yourself!!", thus categorically refusing to
comply with the order, adding "various degrading allusions referring to
the heterosexual virility and ancestors of the Lord Director",
threatening to stamp "the computer tower on his bald head". That car, in
addition, later appeared scratched, painted with black spray, the wheels
cracked, the engine burned with acid and the upholstery stained by a
bottle of El Conejo bleach...

What happens is the following: the colleague Federica is the only
company worker who has participated in all the general strikes, has
legalized the union section and is a delegate without presence in the
Works Council, since she shows for that body the most utter contempt.
The 8M filled the locker room with posters. And on May 1, she parades
with her union. In the company, her work attitude is defiant,
vindictive, she demands compliance with the agreement, protests in
writing, does not work overtime or extends her day, scares the managers.
And although she scrupulously fulfills her duties, the company considers
that an employee like this is not profitable... And she listens, they
haven't been able to fire her because she is unionized.

For someone to be left penniless is violence. Facing this violence,
showing the bosses that conflicts, disagreements, discredit and heart
disease lie ahead, is what prevents this country from becoming a slave
camp... That is why Sisyphus does not stop: by dint of climbing, the
mountain has an open road.

And there is a lot of violence in this world. Violence that always comes
from the employer's camp, because -for example- the first eviction is
the dismissal. For someone to be left penniless is violence. Dealing
with this violence, showing the bosses that conflicts, disagreements,
discredit and heart disease lie ahead, is what prevents this country
from becoming a slave camp.

So, what is the mark of a trade unionist? Well, basically, what sets
them apart from the rest is that the union trade is something practical
and heroic. Instead... Are you a Buddhist? Stay as a Buddha for a whole
week in a square meditating. The same in the contemplative pause, a
mongrel pisses on you.

Unionists, this has been the case since Captain Ned Ludd destroyed the
first machine, are defined by their activity. They redistribute,
interpret, propose, visit, investigate, spy on, analyze, know, respond,
discuss, negotiate, decide, intimidate, study, show, clear, tear down,
group, catalyze, speak, tell, know, point to each other, point to, are
pointed, fight and function with a thousand verbs of movement. And if
they come into conflict, the bosses lose their cool and shit alive.

That's why Sisyphus doesn't stop: by dint of climbing, the mountain has
an open path.

https://www.cnt.es/noticias/cerdo-bugues-limpialo-tu-mismo/
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