A-Infos (en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL Novembre - class unity: Towards an inter-network control (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

On October 15 a meeting was held at the Paris Labour Exchange which helped make a progress 
report around the call "It blocks all! ". Trade union CGT, SUD-Solidaires, FSU, CNT-SO ... 
were there to share and build together. ---- "There is still fighting." It is under this 
title that was convened the meeting on Saturday 15 October. If the crowd was modest with 
about fifty participants, the discussions have not been affected so far. The comrades of 
SUD-Solidaires were more in number with SUD-education of members and SUD-PTT mainly but 
also South-Commerce, SUD-Rail and representatives of local or departmental unions (Nord, 
Paris, Saint- Denis). The Inter nature of the meeting was still real thanks to the 
presence of activists of the CGT (correctors, energy, students, FERC Info'Com, 
territorial), FSU (Emancipation trend) and CNT SO. Finally, if essentially participation 
was francilienne, note that the comrades of Dijon, Lille, Grenoble (under local collective 
Isère "It all hangs") or Mulhouse Orleans made the trip.

A first turn to speak allowed to return to the fight sequence against the labor law lived 
between 9 March and 15 September. Starting from the concrete experiences and pitfalls 
encountered, including the difficulty in engaging the strike, to renew ... and more to 
generalize, trade has shown that industrial action remained well and truly the backbone of 
any movement social.

Do not replace existing union tools

This mobilization without ignoring other frameworks (including standing Nights, the 
reality varied from one place to another) or the terms of symbolic actions backed the 
strike (type blocks) interesting when they replaced not the latter.

The discussion then focused on the proposal to establish an inter-network fighting to 
follow the call "It blocks all! ". If this proposal seems there is unanimous, it raised 
many questions about its objectives as in its structuring.

The will not replace existing union tools but rather to complement was recalled. The idea 
that this network is an inter-union solidarity horizontal space (against repression, in 
support of local strikes ...) returned several times. concrete expression of that concern: 
a statement / support leaflet Goodyear came out in the days following the meeting. The 
text "It is still fighting" has meanwhile been updated to continue to trade, especially in 
our structures, for a next meeting in December.

Théo Rival (AL Orléans)

Texts "Solidarity seamlessly with Goodyear 8" and "There is still fighting" are online 
onbloquetout.org .
'Le Bourg and the Workshop, "a book on trade unionism daily

Enter the union work "from below". Such is the project sociologist Julian Mischi in this 
book published earlier this year in Agnone. "Why and how do they keep the workers to 
campaign despite the strength of the process promoting their political exclusion? "That's 
the question the book raises. The answer is based on observation of the field of trade 
unionism in its daily, through immersion at the local level and over the long term with 
railway and railway workers CGT of a maintenance workshop SNCF in rural eastern France .

The researcher is analyzing the multiple obstacles faced by activists and activists, both 
in the advocacy work of their colleagues in the confrontation with the hierarchy and 
sometimes strained relations with other unions. The test described with class 
consciousness in detail being built, at a time when it is in crisis because, among other 
reorganizations of labor at work at the SNCF (individual bonuses, promotion 'choice 
"inducing competition between wage earners among themselves and, potentially, their 
docility) and beyond. Participation in a strong collective, that is to say, taking 
precedence over individual impulses, based on ideals and not on a trade union services, 
appears as a powerful foil to the dominant individualism and simultaneously as a crucible, 
a training area where militants reflexes are put in place. Certainly, in a railway 
workshop, unionization is made easier by the membership of the working men and women to 
the category of wage earners in status. And in this rural area, Indigenousness many 
railway workers, often a son or daughter of railwaymen, also makes it easier to union 
involvement. However, the sociologist mentions cases of accession to the CGT workers from 
peasants and Catholic conservatives, who experience awareness during their union.

Syndicalism is also shown as a strong politicization of space and learning in contact with 
the militant group. For example, the sentence within the collective deemed sexist 
attitudes (as well as racist or homophobic), if certainly not solve all problems 
automatically, also has long-term positive effects on the consideration by each of the 
type issues. While this is not contradictory with the persistence of some militants in 
virilism habitus.

Another exciting point of the work is the precise study of the formation of cultural 
capital among militant trade union cadres from the working classes and have a low 
educational level * (often type CAP). The knowledge and skills acquired during their 
militant trajectory - mastery of writing, reading or legal regulations, public speaking, 
self-control and self-control against the boss, etc. - Allow these activists to establish 
more equal relationships with their superiors. The author describes how this capital is 
sometimes militant reinvested in the accession to master even coaching in the business, 
and also in local political games - many railway workers are involved, sometimes as mayors 
or councilors municipal, common in this rural area. However, these developments union 
officials are balanced with the risk of expulsion from land permanent. Indeed, the latter 
become more "competent" by the force of things, tend to accumulate, sometimes against 
their will, the union office, and therefore not to be hardly present in the workshop. This 
raises both critical of their colleagues on a real or perceived bureaucracy, and a form of 
self-criticism on their part vis-à-vis what they feel a damaging remoteness of the terrain 
and working conditions of their colleagues. the risk we see that "bureaucracy" often sent 
to national frameworks, is already a reality at local level, and can create tensions 
between unionists "professionalized-es" and wage earners.

Sociologist finds a consideration of this issue and a desire to build a "members of 
unionism" where union members as possible to be able to take some of the tasks.

In short, useful work for both researchers in social sciences for field unionists.

Vincent (AL Paris-Sud)

Julian Mischi, Le Bourg and the Workshop - Sociology of the trade union struggle, Agone, 
408 pages, 23 euros.

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