A few decades ago, they explained that the organization of the working class took place in large concentration centers, such as in factories, but also changed the situation and the ways of organization. Therefore, as is already being done in other places, “we have come to the conclusion that the neighborhood is at this moment the fundamental subject and the place where this new transformation must take place”.
At this moment, they affirm that they have social relations in the neighborhood, from groups of friends to the family, and believe that this gives the basic conditions to the neighborhood to “rebuild this working-class struggle that has suffered a great crisis since the 1990s. Job precariousness is a change in the workplace in a short time and, therefore, classical actors, such as bureaucratic unions, do not exist in many of these scenarios and, in many cases, it is impossible to organize themselves in them”.
They say that they will use the necessary tools to defend the neighborhood’s peers and partners, and that they will try to “reach all the needs we see from the bottom up”, contributing to the collective awareness of the neighborhood: “If from the beginning the institutions have wanted Mendillorri to become a neighborhood of rooms for working families, they know that a new actor has been born here, as many others have done before, so that that desire they have always had does not become a reality.” They have pointed out that this is the first stone to be laid on Mount Mendillorri.
November 19 is World Bathing Day. Even today, in the twenty-first century, many workers here in the Basque Country do not have the right to use the toilet in their working days. Many transport workers are an example of this.
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