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After 27 days of fighting in the metal of Pontevedra, the union leaders called off the strike chrome glass coffee tables and the workers returned to the company without the agreement was signed. It is a defeat, even if it is temporary. Could be no other outcome?
After 27 days of fighting in the metal of Pontevedra, the union leaders called off the strike and the workers returned to the company without the agreement was signed. It is a defeat, even if it is temporary. Could be no other outcome?
In a context of economic crisis, unemployment and employers continuous attack the rights of workers, more than 27,000 workers in the metal Pontevedra staged a strike offense absolutely stunning. On 27 occasions, thousands and thousands of workers (electricians, boilermakers, welders, mechanics ... new and bigger) took literally Vigo.
The participation was massive. chrome glass coffee tables All the obstacles were overcome: the fragmentation of the sector in more than 2,000 companies; threats of dismissal; chrome glass coffee tables fear of unemployment, the huge loss of earnings, the mountain of garbage that threw the bourgeois press, the charges against the police pickets chrome glass coffee tables ...
The willingness of workers to reach the final is an undeniable fact: many had to renegotiate the mortgage payment or borrow money because they wanted to resist as it were, to defeat the bosses. The courage, trust, chrome glass coffee tables sacrifice and even heroism was the dominant tonic until the end. Workers injured by the police and taken to the hospital, left him and was returning immediately to picket, without even going through the house.
Thousands upon thousands attended chrome glass coffee tables every day from 6 am (sometimes from above) picketing and mass assemblies in the town square, in the rain and also under a blazing sun. More than two thousand walked for two days to Compostela, undoing the weight along the way. Nobody can make no reproach to workers who have given everything chrome glass coffee tables for the success of the strike. They demonstrated for nearly a month to their willingness to get to where he had made the foul. But to win a war fan fails two things: soldiers willing to give everything, and generals with an appropriate strategy. The first was enough, chrome glass coffee tables but the second not.
Perhaps chrome glass coffee tables more clearly even than in other industrial disputes, this is shown very clearly that it was the blackmail of employers forcing workers to leave the street. The employer takes years mexando above the workers chrome glass coffee tables in a way outrageous. Firstly, breach of the 2006 agreement (especially with regard to contracting in shipbuilding). This fact has already forced the workers to have to go back to losing several days of pay in 2007 or having to go on strike to demand that the law says that the agreement is fulfilled.
But also the visceral employer chrome glass coffee tables before and during the conflict is unprecedented: Junction of 800 employers to say they were fed up with the unions; threats of taking the factories in Portugal, the announcement of the impending bankruptcy of the shipyards "because of the strike," chrome glass coffee tables the layoffs esgalla chrome glass coffee tables ...
And it is no coincidence: the employer knows that the workers of the metal Pontevedra are an example throughout Galicia and even in the rest of the state. For them, defeat the workers is a priority policy for so demoralizing to the rest of the working class. In fact, the employer lost much more money the strike, as they themselves recognize, than would have lost (or rather, they would have cut their astronomical profits) were accepted had to raise salaries proposed by the unions.
Of course, the employer was not alone in his attempt to give a lesson to the whole of the working class: had the full support of the bourgeois press (which, as private companies that are, have solidarity with their class brothers of metal) and with the blessing the PP party, chrome glass coffee tables which is the direct political representative of the bourgeoisie. The Board since initially chrome glass coffee tables positioned on behalf of employers and urged workers to renounce chrome glass coffee tables their claims. The proposal of the mediators of the Board almost coincided with the employer.
However, the strategy marked by union directions, unfortunately was erratic, especially chrome glass coffee tables from the day June 12, day in which, properly, the strike spread to the companies of the province