Submitted on Mon, 04/10/2006 - 1:07pm
http://www.cnt.es/noticia.php?id=2325
La CNT celebró hoy sábado, 1 de abril, la manifestación que había convocado contra la Reforma Laboral en Madrid, con salida en la Avenida de la Albufera y llegada a Jardín Campo de Toro. Alrededor de 5.000 personas se han reunido en esta jornada de protesta, a la que se han desplazado autobuses desde distintos puntos del país.
Los manifestantes han dejado clara su oposición a una nueva regulación que signifique el abaratamiento de los despidos, la facilitación de los despidos colectivos, la potenciación de las Empresas de Trabajo Temporal -cuya pretensión más inmediata es entrar en sectores como la Administración pública y la construcción-, la oposición, en definitiva, a que cada nueva reforma signifique más prebendas a los empresarios en detrimento de los derechos de los trabajadores.
Al finalizar la manifestación, diversos oradores del sindicato hicieron hincapié en las proclamas de la manifestación.
Submitted on Mon, 04/10/2006 - 1:00pm
Originally posted to infoshop.org by "Worker Freedom".
As millions fight new employment laws in France, last week 5,000 people marched in Madrid against new proposed Labour Reforms in Spain. On Saturday 1st April the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist trade union, the CNT, held a demonstration and workers arrived in buses from all over the country to attend.
Like the demonstrators in France (see www.libcom.org/blog for coverage) the participants were opposing a new proposed employment law. It allows for the reduction in redundancy payments, makes mass sackings easier and increases the power of temp agencies - who are currently trying to enter sectors such as public administration and construction. They were opposed most of all to the fact that every new reform means more advantages to employers to the detriment of workers' rights.
Submitted on Mon, 04/10/2006 - 12:16pm
Whereas: the working class knows no borders or races, but exists wherever workers are exploited for the benefit of capital; and
Whereas: all human beings are entitled to the means of obtaining the necessities of life for themselves and their families, regardless of any artificial barriers created by government; and
Whereas: the nature of capitalist economies is to draw workers from all over to the centers of capitalist investment, while at the same time drawing wealth out of less-developed economies, thereby eliminating opportunities to earn a living within such economies; and
Whereas: the recent rise in immigration to the United States of America is directly attributable to this process, as exemplified by the destructive free-trade treaties forced upon Latin America by the United States government, as well as the insatiable lust of North American employers for a dependent, immigrant work-force that can be compelled to labor under sub-minimum wages and deplorable working conditions and used to undermine the working conditions of all workers; and
Submitted on Wed, 04/05/2006 - 7:53pm
Story by Adam Welch, IWW; Photo by Jessica Valdez - From Silicon Valley DeBug.
In this profound moment of world-wide doubt in leaders and governments, a wave of day laborers, cooks, janitors and high school students have suddenly become a powerful force bringing a new conversation to dinner tables and law makers across the nation.
This past week of marches and high school walkouts across San Jose in protest of HR 4437 was as beautiful as it was significant. Optimism was high returning from the March 25th journey across the city and back. The chant was no longer, "Si se puede," but, "Si se pudo" or, "Yes, we did it." Over the next week students made their own mark as they defied administrations, marching from school to school to spread their walkouts as well.
Submitted on Wed, 04/05/2006 - 7:25pm
Disclaimer - The following article is reposted here because it is an issue with some relevance to the IWW. The views of the author do not necessarily agree with those of the IWW and vice versa.
By Richard D. Vogel - Monthly Review, February 2006.
¡Pobre México! Tan lejos de Dios, y tan cerca de los Estados Unidos.
(Poor Mexico! So far from God, and so close to the United States.)
—General Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico, 1877–1911
Capital’s relentless search for cheap labor constantly alters the flow of surface transportation in North America with widespread consequences. The end-of-century deindustrialization of the United States and importation of cheap commodities from the Far East through the West Coast reversed historical east-west transportation patterns and established Los Angeles and Long Beach as the largest ports in the nation. To minimize transportation costs, which for many products are higher than the cost of production, intermodal transportation of containerized imports was developed. Manufactured goods are packed into mobile shipping containers at factories in the Far East and travel by ship, train, and truck to distribution centers and, ultimately, consumer outlets across the United States. Currently, intermodal transportation of cheap imported commodities is the lifeline of the American economy. In 2004, the Port of Los Angeles processed 7.3 million container units and Long Beach handled 5.8 million. These two ports alone accounted for 68 percent of the West Coast total and are, by far, the largest employers in California. U.S. workers, who have seen so many lucrative manufacturing jobs moved overseas, assumed that import transportation and distribution jobs could not be offshored and were, therefore, relatively secure.
