Together with Airbus workers

An exemplary fight that forces us to draw conclusions and be with the workers no matter what happens.

By Correspondent

All Airbus staff made the decision to extend the indefinite strike, This same one has already entered its third week of strikes, after the 6 Assemblies of the centers unanimously rejected the pre-agreement that the company management had closed with CC.OO.(once again in the offices).

Leaders negotiate at the top

This conflict, that has more than fourteen consecutive days of mobilization, fully affects the activity of the Getafe plants, Cadiz and Illescas, three of the main points of aeronautical production in the Spanish State. The text that has been discussed between the company and CC.OO. was discarded because it was seen as insufficient: since it does not guarantee a real recovery of purchasing power and only contemplates a temporary return of the temporary disability benefits that were removed in the previous agreement.

The rejection was especially impressive in Illescas, where CC.OO. has a strong presence. Even so, The staff voted majority against the pre-agreement. Given this situation, The union's management has announced that it will call an internal referendum to submit the text to its membership.. Regarding CG, they responded that this initiative is not valid., dynamites the union unity and contradicts what was spoken by the sovereign factory assemblies.

A mobilization that worries them

In the strike he has shown an outstanding capacity for mobilization. Last Thursday, nail 7.000 people went along John Lennon Avenue to the Getafe Town Hall Square, in one of the most massive marches that the Madrid aeronautical sector has experienced in many decades. The impact of the strike has not been limited to the plants of the Spanish State: the Beluga pilots, cargo planes transporting parts to European assembly lines, have joined the protest, which calls into question delivery times from Airbus.

The company's management views the evolution of the conflict with concern, especially due to the risk that the protests will spread to France again, where there were already strikes in May and June due to issues related to participation bonuses and teleworking. All of this comes out at a time of great demand. in the military aviation sector, which adds strong pressure to the company.

Teachings of great value

After the workers' rejection of the pre-agreement, the organizing committee of the SIPA union has lost all legitimacy and confidence and, as reported, the strike that was to last until next 31 of July and resume definitively from 24 August rises. The betrayal of bureaucrats is the order of the day, A moment of uncertainty opens and we will see what the continuity is. Whatever, there are clear issues:

-There is strength to fight, It was demonstrated with actions, strike and large mobilizations.

-When the base decides democratically in an assembly, can reverse what bureaucrats negotiate locked in their offices with employers and governments.

-It is necessary to support the demands of the labor movement from all sectors, demanding that unions call assemblies, to debate a plan of struggle with the agenda of workers' demands and a general strike.

For new union and political directions

It is necessary to sweep away the traitorous bureaucrats from the leadership of the unions and build a new combative leadership, Democratic, unitary that proposes self-organization and coordination. Defeating the bosses and bureaucrats would be a big step forward, to be completed with the construction of a new political alternative, left, revolutionary, to confront the pillars of the '78 PSOE and PP regime as well as the rise of the far-right of Vox and the surrender of the reformist variants. Definitely, a revolutionary and socialist alternative for those who never governed to govern, the workers and the people.