A-Infos (en) France, CNT-AIT: Anarchosyndicalisme #186 - CONTENT + EDITORIAL (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

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May 1 is not Labor Day, but the day of struggle of workers around the world!
Editorial
Wage slave!
World of work / Olympic and Paralympic Games
Volunteer or real employee?
No union rights zone!
Theory
Abolish the state
About anti-fascism...
Letters from readers
Noises of boots!
Do with the school for our anarchist project.
About education.
The anti-militarist anti-capitalist assembly.
To be governed.
Feminism

IVG: "recovery" operation and constitutional smokescreen...
Landmarks

Impressions on the commemoration of Puig Antich.
Antimilitarism

Hiroshima, my concern.
International

Against the massacres, let us support the young Israeli deserters.
About the situation in Haiti.
Barbarism in Sudan.

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EDITORIAL: Wage slave!

When I was around 25, I worked on a fixed-term contract, in the oil 
industry, a nine-month contract, renewable, then came the oil crisis, 
the factory I worked for started to fire temporary workers, then very 
quickly tackled the various so-called precarious contracts, in progress 
at the time, and of course fixed-term contracts. I was therefore made 
redundant before the end of my first contract (seven and a half months), 
while being on a fixed-term contract. The dismissal was carried out 
quietly without almost anyone - and especially the unions - finding 
anything to complain about. FO and the CGT had passed the pill, through 
a pseudo-protest movement within the factory grounds; but at the same 
time, they responded to the Management's consultation on these 
dismissals and did not oppose them. The Management had also consulted 
the Labor Inspectorate which had also given its agreement. And so it 
was, we were all kicked out with the approval of the labor inspectorate 
and the unions, who had also flatly told us that young people didn't 
care! That we didn't really matter since we were young and would find 
work easily.

This misadventure may seem incredible, and so banal at the same time, 
but in the world of work and in particular in industry, a worker cannot 
expect anything else, in the treatments and humiliations that he may 
suffer from employers; the only way to be able to raise our heads is to 
organize and fight step by step, knowing that traditional, legalistic 
methods supervised by unions are strict. A worker who fights often has 
no other choice than to strike, and strikes are regulated: the only 
thing authorized remains a simple work stoppage, almost any other type 
of strike is prohibited, in other words, it is extremely limited[1].
A worker or an employee, at work only receives injunctions and orders, 
he is at the mercy of the bosses, of fluctuations in the labor market, 
often working in factories, construction sites or offices, where working 
conditions are more or less precarious, the cause of illnesses and 
occupational accidents...

It is commonly accepted in society that exploitation no longer exists, 
that all this was only valid in the time of Zola and Germinal, or in 
certain regions of the world where our clothes are made. In fact, it is not.

We must understand that from the moment we work for a third party, from 
the moment we sign an employment contract, for a salary, to be able to 
earn a living, it is already exploitation. In the company where I work, 
we regularly have overtime imposed throughout the year. Logically, by 
following the Labor Code, no one can be forced to work overtime. But if 
the employer requests it and he does what must be done at the regulatory 
level, well, as an employee, you cannot refuse and you are obliged to 
work these overtime hours. The interpretation of the Labor Code is 
reinforced by case law (i.e. all the judgments taken in application of 
the Law and the Labor Code) which almost always agrees with the boss; 
you cannot dispute it, in which case you expose yourself to some 
complications.

And it is more than likely that the Labor Code is full of small 
paragraphs and other exemptions that allow this kind of interpretation. 
It is enough to read trial reports, at the Industrial Court or at the 
Civil Court, to see that case law generally agrees with employers.

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