After more than eleven-week strike at the site of PSA Aulnay (Seine-Saint-Denis), strikers
stand firm against the direction and continue actions towards other companies.
The strike by the CGT and southern plant, joined by the CFDT, is certainly a minority but
could hold over time and has 400 to 500 strikers every day. In addition, the general
meeting is daily source of dynamism and democracy and has on several occasions that the
decisions and choices of the strike committee are not those of a few individuals or
political parties, but the employee-es. If the CGT was able to launch several innovative
tools in terms of communication and media frenzy, it failed to launch a national movement
on PSA (because it has not actually tried). Finally, a hard strike and led up by the
internal democracy and punches but with real difficulties to extend the strike actions.
For its part, the management tries to play rotting. Faced with this, the concrete
solidarity organizing and solidarity fund has maintained a significant share of wages of
strikers. Hundreds of collections took place in France but also in other countries.
Recourse to law
Several procedures have been initiated in court. For the record, the CGT Faurecia obtained
after a lawsuit in the summer of 2012 a victory in the court for the suspension of the
restructuring plan in their business. South PSA was inspired by this precedent, but
audiences were referred to early April. If the CGT PSA Aulnay, for unexplained reasons,
refused to join the action of the South, the CGT Metallurgy has also taken legal action,
but through a different procedure. If the CGT / South trade union unity in Aulnay now
allows to maintain the strike, it appears some differences, which can be expressed here
and there without questioning today mobilization unit that is built into the struggle.
When it comes to break the strike, PSA has imagination: redundancy procedures against
several strikers, accusations of violence and arbitrary daily pressures via militia cadres
from all over France, lockout for several days, lower rates of Aulnay for increase in
Poissy (Yvelines), pseudo-perspective training and support shown by several unions of the
company (SIA, FO, CGC, CFTC).
PSA boss thug
If PSA is a rogue boss is also the case of the auto bosses in general, which has insecure
for years tens of thousands of employee-es through subcontracting and temporary work, and
encouraged precursor agreements to the national inter Agreement (Ani) to Sevelnord PSA but
also at Renault strikers Aulnay were not tricked-'re recently occupying the seat of UIMM
(Employers' Federation of Metallurgy) March 8, before being evacuated by the CRS-es.
Saturday, March 23, it was the turn of the extreme right in pseudo-social discourse to
organize a rally next to the plant PSA. Fortunately-demonstration against a unit involving
more than 400 people took place. Las illusions, the employee es Aulnay realized, however,
to the passivity and the confrontation with the government, as they were before all of
them and themselves: " The change is our struggles that will ! "as the slogan reminds
South PSA.
RoberK (AL Montreuil)
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