Tuesday, May 21, 7 am, at the gates of the factory, it's the rain that gather the strikers
to return to work, yet the atmosphere is not the sadness that laugh and that balance
valves. After the traditional general meeting, the event inside the workshop starts, it is
dynamic, noisy, and when we leave the comrades of the plant, we do not really see how
return to normal, it is said work could be done. ---- Nothing is over ... It is obviously
still too early to draw conclusions from the strike, and it is first the strikers to learn
all the lessons of their mobilization. Proud to have stood up to Peugeot for four months
and have returned to the current social issues (and more working issue), allows strikers
to return without shame but it can not erase the feeling of being missed something and
finish with a lopsided agreement (see box).
Indeed the agreement signed Friday, May 17th, which cancels the sanctions against the
workers, is proof that it works and solidarity that the fight always pays. But this
agreement, however, rule nothing on the bottom, despite painful self satisfaction and CGT
militants Workers Struggle [1], it is rather a simple step in the ongoing conflict.
Because the direction of PSA did not wait long to regain control, multiplying the
statements with the announcement of the upcoming closure of Meudon, the transition to a
single shift in the Aulnay plant from 10 June (and, in fact, the decline in production in
half), a voluntary departure plan (at least 700) of the Poissy factory to accommodate
employees' of Aulnay-sous-Bois and finally, with the project implementation arrangements
competitiveness in 2014, she wants to show who is and must remain the master.
It is fundamental to the patronage of PSA to end within and insubordination caused the
strike. By offering the strikers to go with a little more money she hopes to get rid of
the most active and potentially subversive.
But it all starts ...
Because the situation is not totally under control, non-strikers have seen interest to
mobilize and in turn could claim starting conditions improved, but most of the shots
coming wrath is the experience accumulated during this struggle that management must fear.
Links, fraternity meetings and pleasure aroused by four months give legitimacy, expertise
and desire to strikers pave the way for the coming struggles and not just PSA. What made
the break the strike in the lives of these workers helped them reach a higher level of
consciousness.
It is remarkable, at public meetings in Lille and Toulouse [2], which we have contributed,
how many strikers were aware that their struggle, any individual it is also concerned all
the exploited and should spread throughout society. This class consciousness, it is
expressed through the general indiscipline that has spread in the workshops (refusal to
wear uniforms, football game instead of on strike, the factory opened to external support.
..) and it's definitely from the common shared that something could go.
This requires that the comrades who have been at the forefront of the fight in that act
thoughtfully and assumed, and build the tools of their autonomy to be free and be the
union opposition instruments or politicians interests. It is only from these conditions
may be able to build this convergence thousand times but never made known to give a
perspective to all those who suffer, isolated and back to the wall, capitalist
restructuring. We will then know if the strike of workers Aulnay was the first or the last
cycle of struggle.
Jean Mouloud, May 24
* Previous articles in Alternating Current 228 and 229
[1] As such, the debate that takes place in the traditional celebration of the said
organization and brochure analyzing the struggle of the workers of Aulnay are the perfect
illustration. In presenting his method, that of "militant elites, reinforcing,
multiplying, eventually embody the strike will" LO defends against all the Bolshevik
orientation and pass our opinion off what made contradictions of this movement and thus
its interest (What about the production of automobiles? quid capitalist crisis? Where is
the strategy of struggle and multiple turnovers union?).
[2] Organized by supportive friends (hello to Bad Kids Toulouse!), The two public
meetings, which were held in places occupied without right or title (squats what!)
Insoumise of Lille and CREA Toulouse, led to particularly interesting and friendly exchanges.
Inset
The MoU
Here's what the Memorandum of Understanding signed on 17 May finally offers to all
employees covered by the PES
The premium of supra-legal redundancy is increased from 6 months to 12 months. Early
departures increased from 30 to 36 months. Premium mutation increased from ? 5,000 to ?
5,000 gross taxable net tax-
For strikers:
Reinstatement of dismissed employees 4. Fictitious reintegration however, they are
necessarily included in the PES, they benefit from the measures thereof or the possibility
of upgrading to the RATP, SNCF or ADP, but not in the PSA.
Cancellation dismissal procedures against delegates. The cancellation of all criminal and
disciplinary proceedings.
An additional lump sum for those who choose to leave the company before 31 May 2013, today
set at 20,000 euros extra.
Strike days are offset for payment of days of unemployment, the calculation of the 13th
month bonus, paid vacation days, holidays also days, which greatly reduces the financial
losses from the strike.
But all these achievements are conditioned to abandonment procedures to individual justice
(prudhommes) and collective (PES challenge by the CGT).
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