(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #252 (n° spécial) -
Sud-PTT Congress: A reaffirmation of federalism (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation]
The Congress of South-PTT federation was held in late May. If the debate on the
lighthouses resolutions on the role of women in the union and the extreme right have been
disappointing, activists reaffirmed the class struggle orientation. ---- The federal
congress South-PTT was held in late May in Ronce-les-Bains (17). The federation chose
besides the usual texts to put two issues as the congress: the place of women in the
organization and South PTT unionism face the extreme right. ---- On these two resolutions,
the results were not up to the challenges. The text of the resolution "of women" was
partly diminished by the unions of South-PTT federation rejected any quota obligation to
"women" in the delegations of unions to national authorities for example. This nonetheless
reflects the state of South-PTT federation, yet peak a few years ago on these issues. One
might worry a little perspective on the consideration of these issues or the withdrawal to
a few specialists. In many watching it, very few women, and often accustomed to these
issues, intervened in the congress of the federation. Yet that such a text exists in a
union is a step forward. He helped lead debates in structures, hoping that it will be
followed by effects.
The text on the far right has led to amendments mainly on the historical part and less
debate on solutions, even if a debate was reintroduced on the exclusion of comrades
claiming extreme right ideas. However, it should ask some questions when unions have
spoken to half of their mandate against the motion or have largely abstained.
Reject political manipulation
Note also that South-PTT federation adopted for its next congress debates close methods of
the Solidarity Trade Union, preferring consensus to confrontation face, a way of
recognizing a provision for operation of the interprofessional structure.
While the last Congress had seen tensions irrigate the telecommunications sector, this
time the postal business sector was the center of attention, postal debates even
monopolizing interventions during the activity report.
One might have feared the transformation of South PTT convention in trench warfare, may be
desired by some comrades from the platform 3 of the NPA to mark their territory. At one
point the congress delegates would have thought that the Congress of South PTT had become
an internal quarrel NPA. The different interventions have enabled unions to decide: a
clear political direction while rejecting political manipulation. Federalism in unionism
once again proves its effectiveness.
Real political orientations were therefore defined in convention texts: convergence of
struggles, fighting trade unionism as the main axis in the daily activism, but must also
take into account the social and political situation that either in our sectors or to
inter. Our trade union is not above ground and convergence difficulties do not come all
the time from the unwillingness of national and local teams, but also sometimes to a lack
of will to fight the wage earners, that 'recalled comrades unions that tried to conduct
long struggles unable to mobilize the postal workers.
The current federal team was renewed by the unions, ruling out any alternative direction.
Sud-PTT retains, as since its creation, his trademark: unionism clearly oriented
struggles, uncompromising with management. It remains only to wear it everyday in services.
Postal workers of Alternative Libertaire
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