· Thousands of people arrived from all over the country to the neighbourhood of Vallecas, where the march took place.
· The Confederation was very critical of the reform of collective
bargaining as unnecessary, unjust and a source of further precarity.
· It called on other anticapitalist organizations to unite forces and
stand against the savage attack which the working class is suffering.
Thousands of militants arrived from all over the country gathered this
morning in the Madrid neighbourhood of Vallecas to denounce the policy
of cutting labour and social rights which the PSOE government are
imposing at a frenetic pace; some cuts are dismantling the last pillars
of the welfare state which is already quite paltry and incapable of
satisfying the most basic human needs.
At the end of the demonstration in the Azorín park, a rally took place
in which Pablo Agustin, Secretary of Union Action of the Permanent
Secretariat, Luis Fuentes, former General Secretary and Antonio Bana,
Secretary of Union Action for the Andalucian Region spoke.
Besides such topics as the crisis, support for the 15-M movement and the
necessity to increase the response in the companies, one of the most
denounced reforms was that of collective bargaining, which, in the
opinion of CNT, and despite the fact that its supporters staged a
break-off, was already 90% agreed to earlier. Now the text will be
approved by decree by the government and likewise make sure that the
reform will not be balanced and will modify the structure of the
collective bargaining to favour the interests of the bosses, to
facilitate lowering of wages and the loss of the purchasing power of the
employees. It will extend deregulation and labour flexibility in the
companies, the rights guaranteed in the collective agreements will be
lost, new forms of trash contracts will be created for young people and
the Employers’ Insurance Associations will be given competencies
regarding common illnesses so control and pressure against workers who
get ill will increase.
In all, under the umbrella of the reform of collective bargaining, a
Labour Reform much deeper and prejudicial to the interest of workers
than what was implemented in 2010 will take place. It will join the
shameful ASE (Social and Economic Agreement) signed in February by the
unions CCOO and UGT, the bosses and the government, where they
contemplated a cut in pensions.
The workers organized in the CNT have rebelled against this and decided
to break again with the dynamics of fear, despair, division and every
man for himself, to begin to go on the streets and say «enough», just
has thousands of workers in other parts of the world are already doing.
This process of mobilization, to have a real capacity to face the attack
against the working class, will have to be made by different
organizations and social movements, until the Social Pact is rejected
and there is an anti-capitalist perspective. CNT made a call to start to
work in this sense. June 4th is only the first step in which it
encouraged all workers who share the need to organize and fight to take
part.
Secretary of Press and Communication – CNT
