IRREGULAR RHYTHM ASYLUM -blog

BAR716で出したCNTワインが美味しかったって人は、せめて連帯のメッセージくらいは送ってあげよう。

以下、アナーキー・イン・ニッポンの「ニュース」より。


「スペインCNTより緊急要請：国際連帯求む」

スペイン、バルセロナ。
メルカドナがストライキ参加者を買収しようとするも、労働者は団結し続けている。

バルセロナのスーパーマーケット「メルカドナ」でのCNT-AITストライキは150日を越えた。これは、近年カタロニア地方で最大のストライキの一つである。現在、CNTはスペイン中のメルカドナチェーンに対して闘争を行なっている。バルセロナのストライキは、最も重要かつ最も困難な闘争となっている。メルカドナにいる労働者と同志は、あなたの連帯を必要としている。

メルカドナは巨大な企業であり、20人の警官を擁して会社の戦略拠点を守っている。地方政府を使い、労働者にデモなどの行動を起こさないようにも出来る。弾圧をすることも、報道機関などを使って情報操作をすることも出来るのである。

だが、CNTの闘争は終わらない。企業の代表者とストライキ終結の為に受諾可能な解決策について交渉した。しかし、メルカドナは、30万ユーロで全てのストライキ参加者を買収して、ストライキを片付けようとした。ストライキ参加者の総会は、この提示を拒否し、「我々を買収することなど出来ない」と宣言した。

CNTのメルカドナ組合支部は、同志たちやその組織にこのストライキを支援するよう要請する。以下の事を行なって頂きたい。

・労働者に連帯メールを送っていただきたい。メールアドレスは以下の二つ：
cnt(at)badalona.cnt.es
cnt(at)barcelona.cnt.es

・抗議文を企業の以下の住所に送っていただきたい。
Mercadona, S.A.
CIF:A-46-103834
C/ Valencia, nº 5
Tavernes Blanques
VALENCIA - C.P.46016, SPAIN

・スペイン大使館に手紙を送り、この闘争について尋ねて頂きたい。

・スペイン大使館と領事館に何らかの平和的な抗議行動を起こしていただきたい。

・ストライキ参加者とその家族に送金していただきたい。送金先は以下の通り：
BIC (Swift): CAIXESBBXXX 2100 1183 3501 0050 5773

・我々の闘争を新聞を通じて広めたり、労働者や地域の組織の中でも広めて頂きたい。

英語での情報は次のページにある：http://barcelona.cnt.es/?p=233

ソースはhttp://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos37425.html

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(en) Spain: CNT Mercadona Union Section needs solidarity
Date Sat, 02 Sep 2006 12:31:06 +0300

SPAIN: MERCADONA TRIES TO "BUYOUT STRIKERS. WORKERS REMAINS UNITED. INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY URGENTLY NEEDED.

Dear comrades, as you already are aware, workers and members of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union CNT-AIT are on strike in the logistic centre in Barcelona of the supermarkets "Mercadona" for more than 150 days.
It is one of the longest strikes in Catalonia in the recent decades.
Currently the CNT is involved in struggles with Mercadona all over Spain. However, the most important and difficult struggle is our strike at the logistic centre in Barcelona.
The workers and our comrades in Mercadona need your solidarity.

Mercadona is big and powerful. They have 20 police officers of the "Guardia Civil" - a state paramilitary security force - guarding the logistic center. Mercadona is able to make the local government forbid worker demonstrations and actions. The company is also able to suppress
or to manipulate notices in the public press etc.

However, with our struggle and never-ending actions (visit www.cnt.es/mercacosa or http://barcelona.cnt.es) we nearly achieved in negotiations with responsible company representatives an acceptable solution to end the strike. Nevertheless, Mercadona wanted to dismiss all the strikers by offering a 300.000 Euros buyout. The striker's general assembly rejected this offer and proclaimed: "They can't buy us off"

With this turn of events, we have resumed our efforts in putting more pressure on the company. Our actions will not be limited to Spain. We are also trying to make public this struggle and inform and engage workers all over the world. We have set up a propaganda commission who are translating notices in several languages like Esperanto, English, French and German.

Even though Mercadona only exists in Spain, we think that this struggle should be known worldwide as an example of how it is possible to organize to defend our interests and dignity as workers.

The CNT - Mercadona Union Section asks comrades and their organizations to help us win this strike. You can do so as follows:

- Send solidarity mails to the workers: cnt(at)badalona.cnt.es and
cnt(at)barcelona.cnt.es
- Send protest letters to the company:
Mercadona, S.A.
CIF:A-46-103834
C/ Valencia, nº 5
Tavernes Blanques
VALENCIA - C.P.46016, SPAIN
- Send letters to the Spanish embassy asking about the conflict
- Make some kind of peaceful protest action at Spanish embassies and consulates (or at the "Instiuto Cervante"
- By donating money to the strikers and their families (they're running short):
BIC (Swift): CAIXESBBXXX 2100 1183 3501 0050 5773
- Publicizing our struggle in the press and amongst worker and community organizations in your
your country.

For further information in English, go to our website: http://barcelona.cnt.es/?p=233)

We are in an important stage of this struggle. We have to put more pressure on Mercadona in order to win. The strike is going on for more than 150 days. The CNT-Mercadona strikers need as much moral and economic support as we can get from workers around the world.

We will win this struggle!

Anarcho-syndicalist greetings,

MS

(militant of the Local Federation of Badalona and member of the news crew of the support commission of the strike in Mercadona)


Mercadona makes "buyout" offer to the Permanent Secretariat of CNT for the dismissal of all strikers on the 140th day on strike

Workers reject buyout offer. Workers respond with a protest action on Wednesday, August 9th.

Members of the Permanent Secretariat of the National Confederation of Labor (CNT) reached a tentative agreement with the Director of Human Resources and the Director of Labor Relations of Mercadona on Saturday, 5th of August in Madrid. The tentative agreement was going to be ratified by the workers on Tuesday, August 8th in Seville. The agreement would have ended the strike. Nevertheless, Mercadona took a "spectacular" turn on the same day trying to "buyout" the workers for 300.000 Euros.

On August 8th the General Secretary and the Secretary for Union Action of the National Committee of CNT, Rafael Corrales and Antonio Baena, had a new meeting with the General Director of Human Resources and the Director of Labor Relations of Mercadona, José Antonio Jiménez and Antonio Muñoz, in the Hotel "AC Santa Justa" in Seville in order to finalize the agreement. The outline of the agreement was achieved the previous Saturday at the Hotel "NH National" in Madrid. The agreement was supposed to be - apart from the other tentative agreements - an acceptable solution for the workers of the logistic centre of Mercadona in Sant Sadurni D'Anoia (Barcelona) who have been on strike since the 23rd of March.

Nevertheless, according to the CNT, both directors of Mercadona disregarded the previously agreed upon terms and offered instead the sum of 50 millions pesetas as a buyout. This buyout would have led to the dismissal of all strikers. This break in the negotiations is unacceptable to the CNT. The CNT rejects the "buying off" of the strikers which negates the dignity of the workers.

Regarding the senseless actions of both directors, the CNT holds Mercadona directly and solely responsible for the annoyances caused by protests suffered by our neighbors in Barcelona and the province of Catalonia.

During the last negotiation session, all open points were agreed to and Mercadona knows about the irregularities of their actions. The strikers have denounced such Mercadona actions. The recent actions by Mercadona came as a surprise to the CNT. The company wants to buy with millions of pesetas our fundamental right strike and our human dignity, which we reject.

The CNT bears in mind that the workers went on strike because of the dismissals of three workers (which the labor courts have since declared illegal); the recognition of the union section of CNT and agreement on minor improvements such as paid lunch breaks and clean and sanitary working conditions

After rejecting the "buyout", the workers returned the next day and organized protests in Barcelona with a demonstration, which began at 6 o'clock on "Plaza de España" and terminated in the corner of the streets "Sants" and "Badal".

National Confederation of Labour / CNT-AIT
Permanent Secretariat of the National Comitee
www.cnt.es

For information in Spanish (and some English) visit the Barcelona CNT
website:

http://barcelona.cnt.es/