A-Infos (en) Spain, Press Release from CNT* - Calls for Participation in the General Strike, September 29 (ca)

The new labour reform that the PSOE intends to introduce means increased agression against 
the democratic rights of workers.----- The day of the strike should serve as a trigger for 
further and broader mobilizations. A labour reform which they try to justify with the 
crisis, but which in reality is only aimed at giving more possibilities to the companies 
to make irregular contracts, ignore collective agreements and dismiss workers at less 
cost. A reform which will mean more temporariness and deregulation in hiring; a 
substantial reduction in compensation for unfair dismissal; enormous possibilities for the 
companies to reneg parts of the collective agreements such as salary, hours or schedules. 
More precarity, more insecurity, less salary, fewer rights. That is how the government of 
the PSOE is.

But despite all that, this reform is only the tip of the iceberg. The
reality is below. They are the poor working conditions in the
overwhelming majority of companies, the continued breach of the
collective agreements, getting less money than stipulated, working
without insurance, having a half-time contract but working full-time;
there is the obligation to work overtime if you don't want to get
fired, or not get vacations, or to have to do the work they tell you,
even if inappropriate. If you don't want to do this, they show you the
door. Another part of this reality is the contempt which the ruler,
politicians and media treat us, in which we are presented as lazy,
unproductive and useless. We workers live knowing we are replaceable,
that we are just trash that only gets work if we do it more cheaply
than before. We live in fear of not knowing if tomorrow we will still
get paid or simply eat.

And what are we going to do? Wait to see how they keep it all? Think
that one day we might get a decent job? Elbowing each other to get the
last benefit?

Those who want to do this, will be rewarded later with misery. But the
CNT proposes that workers take another form of action: struggling for
our rights and dignity. Without subisidies to the unions, without paid
union activists, without political bargaining. Therefore, although we
cannot assure anyone that we can topple this reform, we we can assert
that we will give it our all. We call on all that want to be part of
this struggle to come to our unions and organize in the CNT.

And also because of this we call for a General Strike on the 29th of
September. So that this day of strike triggers the mobilizations that
workers have head of us if we want to stop the Labour Reform. And
restore our dignity.

www.cnt.es
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* An antiauthoritarian anticapitalist syndicate
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