We can test this with several colleagues comment question that is no election for delegates to the media, to see that many of we will answer them before anything else: slug? Really there is an election of delegates?
On Friday 24 is going to be renewing the delegates of more of the city, but if you look at companies where the Press Union of Buenos Aires (SPB) said that there will be elections, we will realize that There are several places in the list.
That in some ways there is no possibility of choosing delegates is hardly a minor detail, is serious and is closely related to something we have been denouncing for months: the situation of job insecurity than / as trabajadore / news as we live in the region.
If many workplaces there is not the slightest possibility of labor organizations, to have an assembly to collectivize the demands and needs among co-workers, to choose a partner to represent us to the company means that we will be extremely weak when even thinking of raising a claim for increased wages, payment of overtime or travel expenses, improving working conditions, let alone raise any objection to the editorial line of medium.
To break with the status of permanent flexibility in which we work is vital that we manage to organize in our workplaces. Of course, everything would be simpler if the direction of the Press Union membership campaigns Bonaerense made and prompt the formation of internal committees in the media in which there is, but just look at the election of delegates to see that driving the union has adrift to various / as trabajadore / as not even be aware that you have made this election.
The question of membership becomes important to see when to choose a delegate in half, it is necessary that at least 10 trabajadore / as are affiliated / as, beyond being able to vote after all / as.
As we have said, we can not wait for those who lead our guild to move, so as we did in the Ministry of Labour, we've got us to demand better working conditions. The journalists who are in the Class believe that the union is the tool for workers, regardless of who carries out, because the union is not owned by a steering committee. No part does not fix the union. Pulls out will not nail the union does not make things right. And if the election of delegates had not been observed in various media, shall have to organize ourselves little by little so that next year the situation is another.
is clear that the individual fight for better conditions of work does not compare to a collective action to fight for the rights of all workers and the press. Beyond the mistakes they have committed this or that union leadership, the union's role and the organization where work is still important. The guild provides, or should do-from legal coverage in case of dismissal or labor problems, social work and other union benefits, training and tools to work.
From Media Workers Collective see necessary to organize our forces to end the job insecurity. So we and calling on colleagues to think collectively, and we start again on hand to advise if there is a chance to begin to articulate the internal organization in some way, extending the legal counsel of the Lawyers La Ciega, is that we are working on cases of labor disputes and in presentations to the Ministry of Labour.
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