{"id":7400,"date":"2021-09-21T17:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T17:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uit-ci.org\/?p=7400"},"modified":"2021-09-24T16:17:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T16:17:16","slug":"we-stand-in-solidarity-with-the-strike-of-the-washington-state-carpenters-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/2021\/09\/21\/we-stand-in-solidarity-with-the-strike-of-the-washington-state-carpenters-in-the-u-s\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"We stand in solidarity with the strike of the Washington State carpenters in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"
Since mid-September, the union representing more than 11,000 carpenters in Washington State in northwestern United States has been on strike demanding a better contract. The conflict has been going on since July. In four assemblies, the rank and file voted against the contract proposals agreed between management and the union bureaucracy, putting pressure on the union to call a strike.<\/div>\n
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The rank and file have organized an opposition caucus called the Peter J. McGuire caucus in honor of the founder of the carpenters’ union, and have been organizing the struggle to overcome the limitations which the pro-employer leadership is trying to impose on the struggle. Despite the union leadership’s intention to limit picketing to just a few work sites, workers have picketed dozens of construction sites. The bureaucracy has responded to the militant activity of this rank and file by threatening and persecuting the most prominent activists of the Peter J. McGuire caucus. The bureaucracy operates on the belief that substantial wage improvements should not be fought for because unionized workers would lose \u00abcompetitiveness\u00bb to non-unionized workers. This bureaucracy has even negotiated anti-strike clauses in many contracts that prevent unionized workers from exercising this fundamental right. Obviously, it is a very privileged leadership; the main leader of the union, Evelyn Shapiro, declares an income of more than 250 thousand dollars a year.<\/div>\n
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Actually, the gain of better working conditions through a triumphant strike would be a great stimulus for many more workers to unionize. Also other sectors of the labor movement would learn from the experience of organizing opposition currents in the unions, rejecting secret contract negotiations and retaking the combative traditions of the American working class, damaged by decades of attacks by governments and the union bureaucracy linked to the Democratic Party.<\/div>\n
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There is an incipient strike wave in the US. The union representing ten thousand workers at John Deere tractor factories in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas voted this month to initiate a strike demanding contractual improvements. In the food industry, Frito Lay and Nabisco have had major strikes in recent weeks facing attempts by the companies to worsen labor conditions, especially attempts to increase the workday to 12 hours. The same transnationals that exploit U.S. workers also violate labor rights in the rest of the world with the support of the imperialist foreign policy of the U.S. government. That is why we send all our solidarity to the U.S. working class in struggle for their rights, especially to the carpenters in Washington State. Their struggle is also ours!<\/div>\n
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Argentina:<\/strong> Rub\u00e9n \u00abPollo\u00bb Sobrero, Secretary General Railway Workers’ Union-West Section<\/div>\n
M\u00f3nica Schlottahuer, Railway delegate and national deputy of Socialist Left-FITU<\/div>\n
Pablo Almeida, General Delegate of the Ministry of Economy. Association of State Workers (ATE) and Legislator of Socialist Left and FITU of the City of Buenos Aires<\/div>\n
Ang\u00e9lica Lagunas, former Deputy for Neuqu\u00e9n of Socialist Left and FITU, teachers union leader<\/div>\n
Mariana Scayola, secretary general of the teachers’ union of the city of Buenos Aires (Ademys)<\/div>\n
Jorge Adaro, assistant secretary of Ademys<\/div>\n
M\u00f3nica M\u00e9ndez, Secretary of Organization and Finances of the Union Association of Health Professionals, province of Buenos Aires (Cicop)<\/div>\n

\nBrazil:<\/strong> Pedro Rosa, leader of Sintuff and Fasubra (Federation of University Workers)<\/div>\n
Adriano Dias, opposition caucus mail workers’ union and coordination of CSP-CONLUTAS Rio de Janeiro<\/div>\n
Diego Vitello, director of the Metrovi\u00e1rios de SP Union and CSP-CONLUTAS Coordinator<\/div>\n

\nSpanish State:<\/strong>David Orta Mart\u00edn. COBAS Delegate in Titan
\nCristina Mas Andreu. CGT delegate for Ara newspaper workers.
\nJosep Lluis del Alc\u00e1zar i Fabregat. Former CGT public education delegate
\nMarga Olalla Marfil. Former CGT delegate for Barcelona City Council public workers.
\nMiquel Blanch. Former education delegate for CCOO in Girona.
\nPedro Mercad\u00e9 Toro. Public education delegate for CGT
\nMarc Palomer, member of the university assemblies of the UB
\nRosario Mendieta, member of Marea Verde Barcelona and the campaign for universal health care.
\nToni Granados. COS delegate at Qu\u00edmicas de Salt (Girona).
\nM Adriana Beiden\u00e4gl. Pensioner Tide of Catalonia
\nCristina Darriba. Member of Crida LGTBI de Catalunya.
\nJose Antonio Barbera. Member of the Sindicat de Llogaters of Vilafranca del Pened\u00e8s
\nGuillermo Schelling. Responsible for immigration of the Assemblea Nacional de Catalunya (National Assembly of Catalonia).
\nJoan Sala. PhD student and researcher at the UB.
\nTxema Morillo. Member of movements in defense of migrants and for the closure of CIEs.
\nM Esther del Alc\u00e1zar i Fabregat. Former CGT public education delegate.<\/p>\n

Mexico:<\/strong> Jes\u00fas Torres Nu\u00f1o, former Secretary General of the Euzkadi Union<\/div>\n


\nPanama:<\/strong> Priscilla V\u00e1squez, national leader of the Social Security Workers<\/div>\n

\nTurkey:<\/strong> Sedat Durel, Secretary general of the Revolutionary Workers’ Union of Telecommunications and Call Centers<\/div>\n
Atakan Ciftci, delegate of the Education and Science workers’ Union<\/div>\n

\nVenezuela:<\/strong> Orlando Chirino, national leader of the Socialism and Freedom Party and the C-CURA revolutionary union tendency<\/div>\n
Jos\u00e9 Bodas, General Secretary of the Unitary Federation of Oil Workers of\u00a0Venezuela (FUTPV)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since mid-September, the union representing more than 11,000 carpenters in Washington State in northwestern United States has been on strike demanding a better contract. The conflict has been going on since July. In four assemblies, the rank and file voted against the contract proposals agreed between management and the union bureaucracy, putting pressure on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7432,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions\/7432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}