May 1
International Day of the Workers
fight against precarious work and outsourcing
Skip to Plant and agreement, not to inflation. Salary equal to the basket, for union democracy against bureaucracy, for social and political unity of the working class
As usual, this May 1st finds us in the streets fighting for the rights of workers. After more than 30 years of neo-liberal offensive, and 8 years of economic growth, workers still have a lot to fight.
The "model" so praised, based primarily on the looting of property common as land, water, oil and other minerals, reduced unemployment, compared with recent years of the 90s and early 2000. For su parte, el gobierno nacional ha tomado algunas medidas progresivas, como la estatización de las jubilaciones en manos de las AFJP, la asignación universal por hijo, y la implementación del Plan Argentina Trabaja (a pesar de su manejo clientelar por parte de los punteros del Frente para la Victoria).
Sin embargo, creemos que más allá de estas políticas, y de algunos enfrentamientos con sectores específicos del poder económico (Clarín, Techint) subsiste un núcleo duro del modelo neoliberal que no ha sido tocado. La precarización laboral afecta a millones de trabajadores y trabajadoras, especialmente mujeres y jóvenes. We speak of unregistered employment (in which employers do not pay pension contributions) that cover temporary contracts or agency relationship (outsourcing, internships, monotributistas), black from payments of wages, among other issues. For its part, wage increases are always behind inflation and never reach the market basket, estimated today at 5,500 pesos. Meanwhile, the government maintains subsidies to big business groups, particularly utilities and transport, and no progress in tax reform to pay more than those who have more, for example, large oil and mining corporations, which have been obtained windfall in recent years. In fact, 4 out of 10 pesos to enter the national state excise taxes are as VAT, the most unjust of them, who pay both the richest and the poorest, and that falls on the price of food and other products in the basket.
But this situation could not be possible without the disruption and dispersal of the working class: in more than 80% of workplaces are not delegates or union representation. When workers get together, organize and fight against these injustices, employers react to the squeeze, the threats and layoffs. Functional is also the union bureaucracy, with its street gangs and agreements with employers and governments, looking liquidate any independent and democratic organization of workers. Ferreyra Mariano's murder by an armed gang while Railway Union supported the move to the outsourced plant railroad is a brutal example of this situation, in which employers, trade unions, employers and governments are often partners and associates.
Beyond that, here we are. We raised all the flags of workers, yesterday and today. We fight for that in every workplace, in every neighborhood, from below and collectively we can create more organization to change our country. Because we deserve it. Because it is possible.
Therefore, we demand:
precarious enough to work! Convention floor pass and
No to inflation! Basic agreement as to the basket, now at $ 5500
Decent work for all and all
Liberty and union democracy
Hunger is a crime, or a kid at least in Argentina.
mobile 82% for our retirees
call on the event and festival for the International Day of the Workers, Sunday to May 1 the 16, the National Flag Park, next to the River Station.
Coordinator of Popular Movements and Organizations Argentina (COMPA)
regional Rosario:
Frente Popular Darío Santillán, Libertarian Socialism
