FAU-IAA - THE GG / BO ON THE WHIT CONGRESS BASED UNION FAU
IN BERLIN (de) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
In addition to the Berlin FAU Vertreter_innen the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
and a colleague from the left-union network took labournet.tv part in the panel
discussion. After short introductions of Diskussionsteilnehmer_innen involved a film
contribution was labournet.tv activities of only a few years existing primarily in the
industrial centers of northern Italy based union Cobas SI shown. The approximately 12,000
combative, often migrant Kolleg_innen of SI Cobas, who are mainly engaged in the logistics
industry could, recorded appreciable organizing successes in recent years. (https:
//linksunten.indymedia. org / en / node / 139 718 ) ---- After the movie clip and a
representation of the grass-roots activities and the organizational structure of SI Cobas
invitees Basisgewerkschaft_innen each contributed from their experience and organization
background before practical examples of their attempts at intervention in the workplace.
All had in common that the concrete base union activity due to the personal and structural
weakness hardly goes beyond the measure selective interventions and campaigns. Often the
own acting exhausted in defense skirmishes with the managements and bosses to ward off the
systematic union busting. The colleague of the FAU Berlin threw in this context, the
(provocative) thesis in the round that base unions in general and the FAU would again be
found in particular in the role of "militant arm of the law". From "direct actions" one is
currently far away ... A description of the situation, which can not be dismissed out of hand.
For us as a GG / BO this discussion framework was in many respects good and important: we
were in the almost 50 Veranstaltungsteilnehmer_innen the held under lock and operating the
world in the "Special Economic Zone jail" as well as the labor and social law
discrimination of working prisoners to show what great on a interest was. We were able to
exchange ideas further with activists on issues of basic unionization. And we were able to
establish contacts especially, for example, to Kolleg_innen the Unione Sindacale Italiana
(USI / AIT) from Italy and the Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden (SAC) from
Sweden.
A big thank you goes to the FAU and - not to embezzle - to the moderator of the two-hour
event!
Prisoners-union / Nationwide Organization (GG / BO)
c / o House of Democracy and Human Rights
Greifswalder Straße 4
10405 Berlin
www.gefangenengewerkschaft.de
info@gefangenengewerkschaft.de
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