CNT CNT: How do we work? All other unions asking for your vote. The CNT. We do not want votes.
In the CNT have other ways of thinking and organizing: do not present ourselves to the elections we do not want subsidies from the state or business, in the CNT fees are not paid, no one earns an income by engaging in trade unionism; stewards have no bearing years without appearing to work on his post ...
The CNT unions.
The CNT is a union of workers with many years of struggle and experience behind them. Our trade unionism is far from the bureaucracy and offices, is made in the street, in the pits, in the workplace.
We organize in trade unions of the CNT all workers in the same sector of production, we do well to practice daily and non-Solidarity the mistake of thinking that unionism is to arrange our personal problem and forget the rest. For example, when a dispute arises in a company, no matter which branch is, all the CNT starts to defend those workers who have problems.
not have great confidence in the courts and laws. Not ignore the laws are made by that rule and almost always forget that we work. Therefore in practice CNT direct action, ie, the union pressed the employer, the company executives or the company directly, without intermediaries, no committees, no political or professional unionism. When those leaders involved representatives of workers in labor issues almost always end up signing bazaars that harm us. Here are the last years full of bad conventions, conversions wild-les desertified industry, social pacts, ... and all is the signature of the union "representative."
CNT When a decision is because of its members voted in the caucuses., there are no leaders. When the CNT also sits in a dispute negotiate defends literally accurate and that the assembly of workers in the enterprise or workplace has said. The employee participation in decision-making and the design of mobilization campaigns is essential if this is not done and the workers we are losing our ability to fight, our rebellion and dignity, we lose the ability to think for ourselves , to be independent, ... When that happens the employers do to us what they want.
What is happening now? After many years of works councils, trade union professionals, thousands of hours of labor used to walk the case of grants to trade unions, ... After all this we impose a draconian labor reform and working conditions worsening: temporary contracts with the constant fear of dismissal, work contracts and temporary work agencies, piecework, work as a self- etc.
CNT our industrial action.
In the medium and large companies
The practice affiliated with the CNT trade union action by the Union Sections, never through works councils. The local union is the set of all members of the CNT in a company, so they are all members, not just the delegates, who carry forward the trade union action: information for workers and action plans of the company, reporting of violations of regulations, laws and agreements, defense of the folks who have conflicts with the pattern, development of platforms for rights, solidarity campaigns with workers from other companies or sectors etc.
Works councils remove the spotlight from the workers because they are the ones that take everything, leave no room for cl other workers involved, propose and decide. Members also committees are privileged with respect to other colleagues, can not be dismissed as long as the committee and for a year, have union hours in many cases used as they please, and most serious, many of them going to their jobs for years, become accustomed to the company meetings and daily negotiations, shortly along better with the company with their peers.
The delegates of the CNT union branches are rotating among members of Section Association., When they are appointed for a meeting to attend a negotiation are appointed only for a specific subject with the positions set exactly the assembly, also in this negotiation will not sign anything while workers do not decide in assembly.
Delegates of the CNT union branches are in their jobs, no professional unionism. In the few companies that take union hours, we do for specific things and report on the notice boards so that we have used those hours.
The CNT members think the information is essential, so our trade union action is an important milestone in the ongoing information workers. If a worker is informed of his rights, the situation of his colleagues, the situation of other workers in different branches of business or of the problems of their environment, etc. will be more likely to be free, to be independent, to be tolerant, to be supportive, not to be subjugating and demand their claims.
0 is, encourage industrial action participative, supportive, non-bureaucratic, stuck to the workers, far from the offices.
In the small business and the economy.
Under these conditions labor unionism becomes harder. In these businesses simply because the employer knows of the CNT union affiliation of an employee's dangerous.
In these conditions, a model CNT association based on the union directly, there is no trade union branches that are worth. Under these harsh conditions is when the direct action and solidarity are more necessary.
If there are conflicts in these sectors co-CNT working in large companies support and help members of the CNT of these conflicts. All this is done through coordination at the local federations of the CNT.
The CNT are systematically denounced the employment situation of sectors such as construction, domestic workers, the country, thousands of small businesses with few employees. In addition we have the information from these sectors hardest working conditions to the companies where workers are in better condition. Only with the understanding and support of all workers, regardless of where they work, trade union action is as truly and is consistent, otherwise it falls into corporatism and every man for himself.
In these sectors CNT develops a continuous work of information, so we are getting, regardless of the unions 'representative', that we demand our rights workers, to lose fear and we regain the illusion of organized and together defend our dignity.
CNT: Our ideas.
Many times we have called utopian to insult. Yes, we are utopian, but what we stand for in companies, sectors, neighborhoods and in the towns where we operate are specific rights, real. We are not deluded that we are in the clouds but we want to change this society. A flea can not kill an elephant, but a lot of fleas can fill your body rashes, and at worst the elephant changes, or perhaps die, for that ...
course the CNT has not fallen into the "pragmatism." Notable pragmatists of our time are and have been: Felipe Gonzalez and his entire PSOE, UGT with PSV, Rubio, De la Rosa, Roldán, Juanillo Guerra, Gutiérrez, Redondo and Mendez, etc., etc., etc., etc. .. With these partners we better not.
We modernized, we update, we catch up, we are in the XXI century. but we become sympathetic to power. Today as yesterday, we think that power corrupts, that since the power does not solve anything (well anything else that the problem of who occupies the chair), which fix problems or those at the bottom or we continue to subject. So parliaments, politicians, business committees, executives of companies, governments, municipalities we do not like anything, we distrust them and all those who aspire to reach them.
We anarcho-syndicalism, that is, an anarchist ideas unionism.
Other unions living off subsidies, money that gives them the INEM training courses for the unemployed, the companies' business, debts that are forgiven the state, Social Security, etc. We live by our fees and our work, period. We do not want "favors" of power ..
Waterfront corporate and bureaucratic unionism works councils, participatory and revolutionary syndicalism of the CNT through their trade union branches, their trade unions and local federations.
unionism Front leaders, trade union of workers from below.
unionism Front sympathetic to the capital, an accomplice of the capitalist economy and its ecological disasters (the greenhouse effect, ozone layer, deforestation, pollution water, desertification, etc.) and humans (famine in the third world, north-south imbalance, etc.). this other syndicalism, anarcho-syndicalism, radically opposed to working with such disasters.
The CNT is not sympathetic to the crisis of capital, if they have the resolve crises that have created them, we only understand our rights.
