The unions Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT),
Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), Solidaridad Obrera
(SO) and Coordinadora Sindical de Clase (CSC) met on June
24 in Madrid to discuss how we can respond to the attack we the
workers are under, an attack without precedents, one that bushwhacks
our acquired rights, one made a reality by the government and
European institutions, the bosses and the markets. How we can
coordinate a struggle, and a response, based on class unity and
action.
All of the unions expressed their complete rejection of the
policies that through successive labor reforms, pension system cuts,
collective bargaining reforms and cuts in the public services aim to
send the hefty IOU to the workers, and the weakest sectors of the
society, who then foot the bill for capital’s crisis.
We also agreed that a shared response, one that was above our
differences, was needed to mobilize the workers in a unified
struggle, with the participation of all those union organizations,
workers groups and social movements who are firmly against the policy
of social pacts and demobilization promoted by the institutional
unionism of CCOO and UGT.
