Cope with redundancies, Partners Industry has initiated a campaign to veto works councils
on this issue. A claim that draws prospects. ---- Recent months have handed out several
claims against redundancies. Political organizations, associations or groups, trade
unions, each advanced his "solution." Remember first of all that there can be no single
answer. The immediate demands are meaningless unless they are backed by a struggle for a
total transformation of the company, except to confine themselves to poverty and social
crisis rather than fight. However, to achieve the expropriation of the employers and
impose egalitarian redistribution of wealth, we need to draw the transitional
opportunities that enable to get there. ---- In the meantime, there are two categories of
claims, with the landmark as "economic", which is the rationale for companies to justify
dismissal.
If they lay off, is that they have no choice, and play everything on this point for some.
According to them, it should be banned, it is the dismissal "stock" ... Missed! The case
law has largely banned since business can not dismiss to increase profits - at least it
should give other reasons, even if it is hidden reason.
Different options
It has, on one side, those who want to ban layoffs in companies that make profits on the
other those who want to ban all short redundancies. Between the two, little connection,
the first not seeing their claim as a step but as an end. Limited to companies that make
profits is to underestimate the complexity of accounting, financial and legal
arrangements, but also the decision-making power of the employer on the use of money in
the business. It is also a tactical error, as it further justify further layoffs: the
employee-es, therefore, to pay for the rules of a game they have not accepted. Last
debate, there must be a law? Appeal to the state to regulate social relations?
Alternative
There is now an alternative to reach a collective veto works council (EC), on the
initiative of Industry Partners. Require new rights for employees and their
representatives, are in a self-management perspective to regain control of his daily
choices and his company, this is the way it should be supported, recalling the predominant
role of trade unions. Those who decide to work. More than thirty years after the Auroux
laws [ 1 ], to fight in unity to restore the power and tools to employees es gives voice
and do not deprive of their means of action in everyday life. Veto the EC, as the first
step of a veto employee-es, is a significant element in building a relationship of forces,
which he will give echo to get to weigh in an optical transformation of society.
RobertK (AL Montreuil)
[ 1 ] Four laws enacted in 1982 that, while not revolutionary, brought many positive
changes for workers, especially in terms of representation and expression in business.
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