If we can understand that the defense of employment is the first battle to be fought
against the employers and the state, behind, there is also the issue of redistribution of
wealth and that of industrial restructuring. ---- Claim history of unionism social
transformation brought by Solidarity and yet a part of the CGT, industrial conversion can
question both the way we produce what we produce. They are often well-employee unions and
are involved in these battles that are the most "visionary" them / they know more
production tool and see longer term, putting aside the aspect of "profits" . This is often
due to union work performed for several years as alternatives to redundancy have been
proposed. The few existing measures in terms of anticipation and management planning of
employment protection is largely insufficient.
Could - if you wanted to schematize - see two possibilities for industrial redeployment
without necessarily making them distinct. The first is often related to issues of
dangerousness production and the direct consequences that are not necessarily related that
"the final product" is harmful to the environment or social utility.
Purpose and method of production
It is the possibility of reduced risk for employees who work there-es, replacing some
components manufacturing by others. This is an opportunity to revive the debate on methods
of work organization detrimental to the employee-es and impose a more comprehensive view
of what is meant by the work itself.
Other side of the industrial conversion, it is the transformation or production on the
final product. Two examples can be iconic. The first concerns the automotive sector, but
also its industry on which there is much to discuss: the social utility of the car in
traffic patterns - which is in itself a public debate on the shared use cars, public
transport, distance work, home, etc.. It is also based on simple questions that employees
and users must successfully bring together, as the replacement of the current model with
non-polluting cars, instead of the rail freight industry.
Industrial conversion is not green capitalism
Another example of the military industry: just look at Snecma-Safran, " jewel of French
industry "for aviation, to see how the government and employers have class interests to
prevent any industrial restructuring. Hence the interest of the organization of the self
Fair in 2012 - and in 2013 - on the question of the recovery of production choices.
Finally, it is not enough to produce " pretty green cars "for successful industrial
restructuring as we bring and defend. The issue of industrial restructuring can not be
overlooked in a libertarian communist project, and should serve as red wire for lasting
change in society. There is therefore no question of conversion summarize industrial
capitalism greener, cleaner or just less productivist. This is the role that an
organization like Libertarian Alternative to play, taking into account all sectors of
industrial conversion, without diverting from its original purpose and revolutionary.
Robert K (AL Montreuil)
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