Nissan: Neither ERE nor closure: nationalization under workers control
Acciona and Coordinadora workers continue to fight, despite the betrayals. You have to support them.
Since the Japanese multinational announced the closure of its plants in Barcelona, worker rejection was felt with strikes, camping and demonstrations that massively defended the source of work, expressed in the slogan "Nissan won't shut down". Nevertheless, he 5 of August, the Nissan Works Council (CCOO-UGT-USO-CGT) agreed with the management to close the factory in December 2021. Referring to the covenant, union leaders declared "We value it positively" because it fulfills "with most of our demands ", according to CCOO is: "Job guarantee, table of reindustrialization and better compensation ", for "Favor hiring" of those who ask for voluntary withdrawal and avoid "Traumatic layoffs". No "They bought time" depending on the strategy of avoiding closure, but to specify it, in an outcome in which CCOO and UGT marked the step of betrayal, without the CGT presenting an alternative course.
The deferred closure agreement accelerated the constitution of the ERE board (Record of employment regulation) as a previous step to the legalization of the dismissal of 500 Acciona workers. The bosses want to dismantle the worker resistance, resume production from September, relocating workers "Plant" in the positions of the line occupied by subcontracted colleagues and thus advance in the completion of the final closure. The employers implemented the differences when they imposed first and second category conditions between workers, with salary and labor rights distinctions, even doing the same tasks, under the same roof.
Avoid firing 500 Acciona workers, is already an important goal in itself, but it has a much more extended reach, because they are at stake 25.000 jobs that would be lost with closure. It's more, the crisis of the capitalist economy will bring about the application of adjustments, suspensions, layoffs, salary reduction and loss of conquests, both for the automotive industry as a whole and for other branches of production. Yes, workers win by keeping jobs and avoiding closure, the entire working class will be strengthened to face what is coming, with a clear message of strength: let the businessmen pay for the crisis, no workers.
That is why it is key to support the struggle of workers in Acciona and the Suppliers and Subcontractors Coordinator (Marelli, Tach, Snopes, Magna, ISS) what, far from accepting the "social peace" of the agreement, I know demonstrated at the factory gate the 24 of August, they decided to do mobilizations and strike. The call for solidarity must be extended to other automotive, to factories in the Free Trade Zone and other productive branches, to the population of Barcelona, L'Hospitalet and Moncada, to the students and social collectives, the general strike with mobilization is the best way to succeed. Yes, Nissan workers and subcontractors win, We all are going to be in better conditions to face what is coming, to guarantee jobs and repeal the nefarious labor reforms that it maintains the government PSOE-Unidas Podemos.
Spanish government authorities, he president of to Government Quim Torra, after years of millionaire subsidies to Nissan and the mayor of Barcelona City Council, Ada Colau, they have manifested its "concern" and they promised to "do all the possible" by job sources, but they are just words that, as such, I know them carry the wind. They dodge like the plague pronounce themselves and carry out the only stable output, durable and worker friendly: the nationalization of Nissan under workers' control. It is not a utopian or impossible way out to perform, what is lacking is the political will to do so. In the meantime, support the ongoing fight, it is more necessary than ever, that's why we call show solidarity with the demonstration scheduled for Tuesday, September 1 in Plaza Sant Jaume.
