Anarchists and libertarian communists in the CGIL #32 -
DEMOCRACY AND WORK Minority Congress CGIL (it) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
With the election of the new national secretariat of the CGIL it was reiterated a choice
of closing and self-preservation of the leadership team, which does not take account of
the diversity of positions and discomfort that crossed the holding of congresses at all
levels, including the Congress National. ---- There was, in fact has been denied any
opportunity for reflection on the conduct of the National Congress, on the outcome of the
vote, on the level of exasperation which led to the suspension of a few hours that the
Congress, to seek solutions that would prevent the breaking of our Organization. ---- He
chose nothingness, as if nothing had happened. ---- Would be irresponsible in view of the
gravity of the social situation and of the obvious difficulties of our Organization.
The reasons that led us during the course of the National Congress to the submission of
the list 2, which had as reference the amendments to the document "The work decides the
future", and the negative judgment on the agreement of 10 January 2014 "Consolidated
Representation ", they are in this way confirmed.
You can not think of erasure of the different existing positions, with a twist in the
authoritarian management of the Organization.
To live these different positions because of the tools provided by the Statute, we just
have our formalization as "minority congress of the CGIL."
The contents of our amendments - security; democracy; welfare; rights; bargaining - and
the opposition to "the Uniform Representation" draw our land of initiative and deepening
of another idea of the CGIL.
The glue that holds these objectives and that characterizes our commitment in CGIL is the
need for a profound change in the very definition of these objectives and in practice to
be taken to achieve them.
Claim change means thinking in concrete terms to the possibility of the future to the
CGIL: castling bureaucratic autreferenziale and conservative means the irrelevance,
marginality, defeat for the working men and women, young unemployed and precarious,
pensioners.
We still think that in the third millennium we need to Syndicate: the theme today is that
union, as the union structure and organizes its representation, as the exercise, of which
goals, about which project to change society and Europe.
You can no longer deny the size and depth of the crisis of the CGIL. The illusion that the
frantic search of "institutional support" was replacement of the present contractual and
assertive in pursuing the course of these years, the logic of the lesser evil, harm
reduction, has led to the cancellation of all the achievements of 60 years' and 70
'without any real social conflict and now gives us a legislative and contractual aimed at
corporatization of the Union, the Union market.
The consultation is long gone, what now jumped with the new government is its variable
degenerative pursuing a relationship with a political force or even worse with a part of
it, as "bank emendativa", compared to the choices that were made by the government without
understanding anything about the dynamics at work in our counterparts at national and
European level.
We thus accompanied the social process that led to the current situation.
The Congress was the plastic representation of this, a management team that has chosen not
to compete with the opening of a real comparison, a group leader who is not willing to
question themselves in order to preserve itself, its internal logic , that more and more
in the absence of the policy are promotional exercises loyalty, using the management tools
of the Organization, to imperil the same unit that the Congress has been avoided thanks to
the intervention of important structures of our organization.
We want to continue doing live throughout the CGIL the various positions, using all
available tools.
What we want to be?
We are those who (as evidenced by the amendments brought into question in the assemblies
congressional base) make the change of the Trade Union Confederation the main reason for
their action. By which it means a change that involves not only the strategies and
policies relating to the CGIL union democracy, the negotiation, which must guarantee the
rights regardless of the type of contract, the labor market, to social security benefits,
the minimum wage, to the school and training, welfare (health, social security), to the
commons, but also his way of being, its democratic organization, the transparency of its
political action, organization and management, its independence and autonomy in the
relationship with the employers and the policy framework.
We are those who want to give life and continuity to a new initiative and open,
non-bureaucratic union of experiences that, however important and significant, they belong
to a phase now over. For this reason we are interested in the broadest possible
discussion, without fences and pre-established positions.
We want to converse inside and outside the organization, with great freedom and movement
ability, in order to fully realize what that discussion and action of strategic
discontinuity that CGIL continues to not do it. For this we will make use of the option
provided for in the Statute, which recognizes the rights of minorities conference, setting
out the tools available to them, such as conformity with union, internal tools of the
Organization, the right to propose substitutions in the governing bodies.
With this choice we want to create a place that gives visibility to the diversity of
positions among the living members of the CGIL, and that, starting from the assemblies
congressional basic, had a consensus much higher than actually recognized in the
composition in the conference audience National. That place must be of union initiative,
freedom of discussion, research, exchange of experiences, monitoring and defense of
pluralism in all locations, including the decision of the Organization.
For this purpose it is necessary to relate the way of organizing our work to be the most
free, participatory and collegial as possible, able to involve all those who look forward
to our battle. An inclusive attitude and appropriate to free and use all the potential
that aspire to express themselves in research and political action aimed at changing the
CGIL. An attitude that makes renewal spring to recover a dialogue that is fading with the
new workers and young people in general.
We want to enable all levels of the organization, a way of working that Incalzi and
involve all of the CGIL and the forces to confront the change is necessary and urgent to
defend and revive, in the changing contemporary world, the size of the General Trade Union
Confederation which bases its strength on collective representation and bargaining
function. A syndicate to get back on top, to change the current unfavorable balance of
power and its critical perception widespread in Italian society, starting from the
relationship with male and female workers, democracy and participation, working on real
engagement of all sectors of a working world increasingly fragmented and dispersed.
In anticipation of the Conference of Organization of the CGIL scheduled for next year is
to be opened by our research group and a comparison across the democratization of the
CGIL, on the processes of formation of elites, the participation of delegates and members
in decisions , transparency in the use of resources and their distribution at the various
levels.
So this is an open democratic challenge because there is no future for a Union which is
not radically democratic.
