He's going to go to the republic, like he's going to the unions.
- "I've been memory of a couple of books by Jane McAlevey, an American, and they tell very suggestive things. In favour, and believing that the parties are also valid for Euskal Herria, I have taken these words out of the book Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy freely. The article was written by Unai Oñederra on the blog Emeki KUnama.
We don't need robots to take care of our seniors. What we need is for the rich to pay their taxes. What we need is the union to balance the power of corporations.
There's no more powerful way to force them to share what the upstairs earn than a serious strike. Trade unions, as in 1932, remain more effective than any other means or tool. We have to force those at the top to distribute. That requires terrible power. Only the power needed to get older people to share the wealth that workers have generated is achieved when they collectively start and leave their jobs massively.
The current situation shows us that there are no more effective weapons than trade unions and the super-majorities strike, there are no substitutes. There's only one way to force Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, to give a significant percentage of his benefits to the multi-million-dollar workers: strike until he gives what he's asked for. That's what good democratic unions do, and that's why they're as important as they were in 1932 in 2020. It can be won with toughness and with high-risk actions.
In addition, major strikes are a great political education. Strikes to win big are the best political education, because they bring together all kinds of different people (we choose friends, not companions). When workers decide to join, they understand that, thanks to a good union campaign, their employer is part of a broader power system that is responsible for the policies that affect them. It is no coincidence that cities and countries with the strongest trade unions vote in favour of progressive policies. That is why the right wing attacks trade unions over and over again. They understood it better than those on the left to do what they wanted (to abolish regulations, to control the electoral system, to destroy the planet with total impunity), first of all, that to balance the power of corporations they had to demolish the most important force this people has had: the unions. A well-unionized worker is an awakened worker who can change the direction of this people.
Beyond winning the election, learning to build supermajorities to get successful strikes has other benefits: building the power to govern. If political elections are won by an honored person on the left, unless the troops on the street remain mobilized to bring about change, it will be very easy for big corporations to keep everything as it is. Voters must maintain their unity and their activism even after the elections.
Trade unions have enormous value, not only to stop the loss of democracy and income inequality, but to teach the Americans again how to add. The power of ordinary people can only be built if normal people stand up in their favor, with their own resources and with good campaigns that turn the individualism they have in their heads around.
The power of the progressives is based on the unions that, with the support of strong and independent community-based institutions, assume the main objectives of society.
There is no better way to rebuild the bottom-up progressive base than a trade union willing to strike. Good trade unions put us in the right direction and create the solidarity and unity that is essential to win. We can fight and win.
The Department of Education doesn't understand why public employees have gone on strike. He's got to ask the LAB Syndicate. This union signed an agreement with the department in April 2023. Two years later they have also called for a strike because, unlike the previous ones, the... [+]
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Datorren astean Departamenduko Laborantza Ganbarako hauteskundeak ospatuko dira Ipar Euskal Herrian. Frantzia mailako FDSEA eta CR sindikatuez gain, ELB Euskal Herriko Laborarien Batasuna aurkezten da, "euskal laborarien defentsa" bermatzeko.
And for another year, the unions have organized prefabricated strikes for us. And we, individually, will decide whether or not to join the strike, without the need for any assembly at the school.
The strike model that I was taught is no longer in vogue, it seems. In my... [+]
Lehen aldia da Hego Euskal Herriko euskal gehiengo sindikalak armagintza industriaren moldaketaz taldean eta modu publikoan hitz egiten duena. Aurreko hilabeteotan mugimendu antimilitaristak bilera bana egin du lau sindikatuokin, produkzio militarra “sozialki... [+]
Today, January 21, is a day to remember and reflect on an interesting ephemeris of our recent history. It is 50 years since the lockdown of 47 workers from Potase in Navarre. This lockdown, which lasted fifteen days, caused a general strike in Navarre, the Department of the... [+]
Departamenduko Laborantza Ganbarako hauteskundeen kanpaina abiatu da. Urtarrilaren 14an bozetara aurkezten diren hiru sindikatuen ordezkariekin bi oreneko eztabaida sakona antolatu zuten Euskal Hedabideek, osoki euskaraz.
