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 Wednesday April 01, 2009 22:31 by Sección Sindical en Ryanair de la CNT
 Last Friday, 27 March, the delegate of the CNT union section in Ryanair received a letter of dismissal from the company, for reasons of unsuitability, claiming a drop in the worker's performance. This is clearly false, the reality instead being that this dismissal is designed to discourage those who are demanding their rights and exercising them. Given this fact, the CNT announces that the comrade, and by extension the SOV of Zaragoza, is not in any way accepting this dismissal or any compensation. This has occurred as the culmination of a series of acts of repression and coercion that the company has used against the Section since its creation, and we will not stay idle. |
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Facing Tuesday’s general strike in Catalonia, CNT wants to show its satisfaction with the response which thousands of workers have given throughout the day and across trades. Popular mobilization responds again against the severe repression which Catalan society is living. Worker’s solidarity shows once again that it can do anything. To continue the fight for our rights, we call several days of demonstrations that kicked off on May 29th and will finish June 15th. Joint statement by the Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and Solidaridad Obrera (SO) trade unions, appealing to the working class in Spain to join the day of strike action called for 29 March 2012. [Castellano] [Italiano] Against the Labor Reform, the cuts, and the assaults on the working class. The CNT rejects any kind of negotiation over the rights conquered by the working class and demands the repeal of the Labor Reform. The CNT’s confederal committee has decided to call a 24-hour general strike for March 29, which will extend the call that has already been made for Galicia and the Basque Country. This call will be formalized in the coming days. A General Strike has been called by the CIG, CGT, CNT and CUT trade unions for 29 March next. [Castellano] [Galego] The Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and Solidaridad Obrera (SO) trade unions met on 17th October last with the aim of continuing along the path towards unity of action, mobilization and the General Strike. [Castellano] The CNT, CGT and Solidaridad Obrera unions have launched a call in Madrid to build a strong process of mobilization and unity of action, leading to a general strike. [Castellano] The trade-union organizations CGT, CNT, SO and CSC are moving for mobilization for shared demands, debated and adopted by the workers with a view towards a general strike. [Castellano] [Italiano] These are our initial impressions of the outcome of today's General Strike. In certain key sectors, there was mass participation in the strike in almost the entire country. By way of example: food markets in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Valladolid, Seville and Zaragoza; the (Seat) Ford, Renault, Opel and Volkswagen car factories; petro-chemical and steel factories and plants, minerals sector, gas distribution, public services such as waste disposal and post offices, large-scale construction, port workers in Barcelona, Valencia, Algeciras and so on. [Castellano] [Italiano] The day of the strike should serve as a trigger for further and broader mobilizations. A labour reform which they try to justify with the crisis, but which in reality is only aimed at giving more possibilities to the companies to make irregular contracts, ignore collective agreements and dismiss workers at less cost. A reform which will mean more temporariness and deregulation in hiring; a substantial reduction in compensation for unfair dismissal; enormous possibilities for the companies to reneg parts of the collective agreements such as salary, hours or schedules. More precarity, more insecurity, less salary, fewer rights. That is how the government of the PSOE is. more >>
Something is changing in Spain. On Thursday 19th July, hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people took to the streets against the greatest attack on Spain's welfare state in its history, in the form of cutbacks announced by the Partido Popular government. Public servants, trade unions, left wing political parties, worker organisations and unemployed people marched in 83 cities across Spain. A WSM member who returned on a visit to Toledo during Friday's protests reports on the struggle.
The adjustment measures proposed or planned by the Spanish government and its advisers to fill the State's coffers and stimulate the economy place all the burden on the popular classes in the form of lower wages, consumer taxes, pensions cuts, cuts in unemployment benefits, more privatization and the introduction of more obstacles to workers organizing (such as making it easier for employers to lay off workers and more restrictions on collective agreements). [Castellano]
In the midst of a serious situation, with great instability on economic, political and social levels due to another crisis in the world financial system, which has already spread to the "real economy" and with no end in sight, our country is immersed in an "endogenous crisis". [Português]
According to today's Diário de Noticias, the rate of unemployment in the Portuguese economy is already running at 10.9%, counting those who are currently "inactive but available" and those who are under-employed.
But there is another kind of syndicalism, another way to defend our rights and to relate to each other. It is alive within anti-authoritarian, non-party dependent, grassroots syndicalism, anarchist-inspired, committed only to decisions taken in assembly. more >>
Facing Tuesday’s general strike in Catalonia, CNT wants to show its satisfaction with the response which thousands of workers have given throughout the day and across trades. Popular mobilization responds again against the severe repression which Catalan society is living. Worker’s solidarity shows once again that it can do anything.
To continue the fight for our rights, we call several days of demonstrations that kicked off on May 29th and will finish June 15th.
Joint statement by the Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and Solidaridad Obrera (SO) trade unions, appealing to the working class in Spain to join the day of strike action called for 29 March 2012. [Castellano] [Italiano]
Against the Labor Reform, the cuts, and the assaults on the working class. The CNT rejects any kind of negotiation over the rights conquered by the working class and demands the repeal of the Labor Reform. The CNT’s confederal committee has decided to call a 24-hour general strike for March 29, which will extend the call that has already been made for Galicia and the Basque Country. This call will be formalized in the coming days.
A General Strike has been called by the CIG, CGT, CNT and CUT trade unions for 29 March next. [Castellano] [Galego] more >> |
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Spring zu Komment: 1 2 3We need to think of solidarity actions in Ireland. There's anarchists around and a sizeable Spanish community which includes some radicals (including some CNT militants). This Micheal O'Leary is a particularly disgusting capitalist: not only a big profiteer, but also a particularly backwarded bastard when it comes to women's issues and trade union rights. Even on the last (aborted) call for a National Strike on March 30th he was calling the government to send the army to intervene on airports in order to make sure that workers did not take part in industrial actions. He's nothing short of a fascist pig! Solidarity comrades!
There are two different kinds of people - People who want to deal with Unions, and people who don't.
I fit into the latter, and hapilly work in a company with similar union policies to those of Ryanair. Most of the people in my job have a similar mindset. I'm not sure I understand why people in the former ( people dependent on unions ) would even want to work for a company like Ryanair. Judging from both my own personal opinions, and those of the people that I work with, I don't think Unions would be welcomed by either the Management, or the majority of workers.
I consider a job to be a voluntry arrangement between two parties, in this case, a company and a staff member. The staff member has every right to terminate that arrangement ( with a months notice ). I have an arragement with my employor. If at some time I an unhappy with that arrangement I will leave and get another job elsewhere. Why would I stay somewhere I'm unhappy with? Why should such an arrangement be so one-sided as to allow one party ( the employee ) to terminate the arrangement, and not allow the other party ( the employor ) to do the same?
If you don't like the way a company treats their staff, then why work for them?
Although I agree that the bosses have been successful in a way to impose an anti-associationist mentality to employees (that goes beyond trade unions), the previous comments seems to be done by the PR department of a company like Ryanair, not by an ordinary worker "happy" with their conditions.
This is so because few people (and extreme minority of people indeed) can chose their workplace and most work wherever they find a job -the line of argument "if you don't like it find a jos somewhere else" sounds even more idiotic than it normally does in times of an economic crisis. The big problem is that employers are not divided between those who favour trade unions and those who don't -all of them would prefer to see trade unions banned and they only accept them because they have been forced to do so. If we accept the anti-trade union practices of Ryanair, then they will be imitated by other companies and this is unacceptable. We are facing a general anti-union onslaught of all of the employer class (the capitalists as they are called).
The theory of the "voluntary agreement" between the two parties is flawed not only because it fails to take into account the fact that workers do not have much of an option to impose their conditions to bosses in isolation as employers surely do (that's the basic theory behind trade unionism -that workers can only be strong and put forward their conditions through strenght in numbers). The "arragnements" are often one-sided to one party: the employer.
It is also flawed because there are certain rules, a certain framework, even within this agreement, that the employer has to comply with and one of those rules is that workers have a right to unionize. If individual workers don't like the trade unions they are not forced to join them but at all times employers should respect the right to unionize. The right of association is even a universal human right! So a man like Michael O'Leary, no matter how rich he is, can't step on everything that has been advanced for two centuries in terms of respect to civil rights. He is an employer -not a mandarin.
And his calls for the army to intervene against workers in the event of strikes in airports, exposes their true face, not that of liberals, but of rich despots willing to use every form of coercion to keep the cash flowing in and to attack workers rights.