A-Infos (en) Brazil, Luta Fob CEARA: APEOC strikes the category and bureaucrats accuse the base of being fascists! ORC Bulletin (04/2024) (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

In this April 2024 edition of the Classist Resistance Opposition 
Bulletin (ORC) - Education Workers, you can read about: ---- PT 
government, union bureaucracy and insurgent base! ---- Break the 
"capital" - "interior" dichotomy ---- Ceará: land of precarious 
education! ---- Union bureaucracies attack teachers by showing 
solidarity with the antidemocratic APEOC/CTB ---- The category of 
teachers from the state public network in Ceará show their discontent 
with the coup by the APEOC/CTB leadership and with the proposal of the 
Elmano/PT government their demands.

PETIST GOVERNMENT, UNION BUREAUCRACY AND INSURGENT BASE!
Since the end of 2023, assemblies have been held in the capital and 
interior to debate and vote on the agendas and the 2024 salary campaign. 
With the beginning of the school year, these agendas and demands were 
re-discussed in assemblies on 15/03 and 26/ 03. In addition to these 
demands, the state and indication of strike were voted in these 
assemblies. In the last one, the agenda for launching a strike was set 
for the April 4th assembly, if negotiations with the government did not 
include the category.

The results of the union's negotiations with the government fell short 
of the category's demands, including salary equality between temporary 
and permanent teachers. Basically, the government's proposal grants an 
adjustment of 5.62% without retroactive effect, different from what the 
minimum law requires, which establishes that the base date must be 
January 1st of each year and the settlement of promotions delayed since 
2019, when the governor was Camilo Santana/PT.

However, APEOC and UNION DEMOCRACY are words that do not go together. It 
was up to the union leadership to analyze the situation, open for 
speeches and vote on the proposal that called for the assembly: STRIKE. 
But that's not what happened. The APEOC leadership acted violently 
against its base, which responded proportionately to the violence 
carried out. A teacher was attacked by APEOC management security guards, 
followed by plastic chairs being thrown at one of its directors as he 
left the assembly.

During the assembly, APEOC decided that it would hold 36 regional 
assemblies to consult the base on whether to accept the government's 
proposal or launch the strike. We know that this is an anti-democratic 
maneuver, since there is little supervision of the base in these 
assemblies, and there may be "ghost assemblies" carried out by the 
leadership. We need to participate in at least 18 of these assemblies 
and reject this lowered government proposal and trigger the category strike.

Therefore, we propose: a) Carrying out zonal activities; b) Elect 
delegates in these zones and build an autonomous mobilization command; 
c) That these zones raise resources for; d) Take colleagues from this 
mobilization command to assemblies in the interior and debate with these 
colleagues the outbreak of the strike movement. These are our tasks! Get 
to work!

Breaking the "capital" - "interior" dichotomy
The APEOC/CTB Management acts by "dividing and conquering". Thus, it 
reinforces a supposed discourse where "teachers in the capital think 
they are more important than teachers in the interior". Nothing more 
fake. In many schools in rural cities, we have 100% temporary teachers, 
and often even the management team is made up of temporary teachers.

In some cities, staff are in commissioned positions, in Credes. These 
are those who reinforce the speech of the Elmano/PT government, which 
accuses teachers who want to strike of being "unemployed", of "not 
wanting to work". We cannot fall into this trap set by APEOC/CTB.

We need to reinforce the unity of the category, going to the interior 
cities, debating with colleagues in the classroom and unmasking the 
Credes managers who make the speeches of the government and the APEOC 
management.

CEARÁ: LAND OF PRECARIOUS EDUCATION!
School Census 2023/MEC points out that the Ceará state network is the 
second state in the northeast with the largest number of temporary 
teachers compared to permanent ones. Only 41.3% of classroom teachers 
are effective.

What the school census expressed is what we already know, we already 
feel. The majority of the state's education workers are temporary. 
Terrible working conditions, lower salaries than permanent teachers, 
precarious contract terms, sometimes months without receiving a salary 
due to the administration's slowness in publishing contracts in the 
official gazette, in addition to being at the mercy of school management.

In addition to the problems of temporary teachers with the state 
government, we also have the fact that APEOC/CTB does not affiliate 
temporary workers. It's as if they were non-existent for the state, for 
official union representation, but I used them for the high rates. Since 
the 2011 strike, we have been demanding the right to union membership, 
denied by the group that has been in charge of APEOC/CTB for decades.

Thus, due to the lack of union representation, varied organizational 
initiatives emerged, all of them legitimate, since this layer of the 
category is unwanted by the APEO/CTB management.

UNION BUREAUCRACIES ATTACK TEACHERS BY SOLIDATING WITH THE 
ANTIDEMOCRATIC APEOC/CTB
Several union entities, including SINDIUTE/CUT, expressed solidarity 
with APEOC/CTB due to the category's response to the entity's 
undemocratic action. In general, entities linked to reformist trade 
unions. These notes must be repudiated by their bases, as they 
essentially defend the anti-democratic action of APEOC/CTB.

In response, notes and more notes emerged from groups of teachers from 
schools in the state network, showing solidarity with their own 
category. This response is more important than bureaucratic notes, as it 
expresses class solidarity in its purest state!

"Let us do with our own hands everything that concerns us", The 
International

ORC Bulletin - April 2024 - Printed VersionDownload
We are a group of workers dissatisfied with the hegemonic union model, 
including that of Sindiute-CUT and APEOC/CTB. We fight for union freedom 
and the autonomy of our class. We fight Tax and Union Unicity, a 
consequence of the State's Union Investiture on the forms of 
organizations of workers. Meet ORC! Get organized!

https://lutafob.org/apeoc-golpeia-a-categoria-e-burocratas-acusam-a-base-de-fascistas-boletim-orc-04-2024/
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