has recently been living in Spain for the climax of the "crisis of air traffic controllers." Some background:
Air traffic controllers in Spain were a privileged group of workers. Certainly be a work difficult and stress-inducing, the truth is that air traffic controllers receive salaries well above average. Also accused the drivers of something very common in several professional associations: practices to restrict the formation and admission of new drivers, fata of solidarity with other workers, etc.. This is revealed not a sin but simply as myopia, the worst mistake of air traffic controllers was not part of the general strike against labor reform. It is instructive to consider how they paid for:
The government of the Socialist Party (jua!) Workers (jua juaaaaaa!) English is about to start the wave of privatizations in Argentina and know so well for the prosperity that spilled over all (silence please more bitching low). Like any wave of privatization, requires a discipline and degradation of working conditions. The airport business is a most delicious, but it has to be further, and air traffic controllers make too much money or too costly. So here we go, the government of the bourgeoisie thief was devoted to systematically violate the agreement with the result perfectly timed: Drivers reacted uncoordinated, poorly planned and relying solely on what they had always trusted: her ability to pressure the impossibility enable the airspace without their work.
Wrong calculation: the majority of English workers, not shown much dynamism in defending their own interests, recalled that air traffic controllers are privileged and unsupportive, so I made the same mistake: they sided with the government. Just as drivers are realizing bitterly that they are untouchable, the rest will not take long to realize that this attack will not stop with the drivers.
As in Argentina in the '90s, the media played a role in this to deal with workers against workers. Whenever a public service strike is called for workers, the media consumers agree. Chronic weeping people who could not travel to see his sick grandmother, fake-stories-organ transplant that could not arrive on time, and of course: the debate on those jobs, "strategic" and "indispensable" and on "minimum service" that should guarantee any What strike if doctors or surgeons do strike? Bla bla bla bla bla.
The case of doctor jackal
This debate lies a fundamental reality. The media discourse incites resentment of workers against workers, emphasizing the right to enjoy the services that are missing when there is a strike. But the funny thing is that this logic applies only in case of strikes, never other cases. We
more weight to the case: suppose that Dr. Jaus works at a private clinic. We bring a pug nose is about to die, but Dr. Jaus crosses his arms and says:
- keep a trade union dispute with the owner of the clinic, and I will not operate until I increase the salary. Immediately
printed media headlines: DOCTOR JACKAL
REFUSES TO OPERATE, VIL MONEY MORE IMPORTANT THAN LIFE
And there is the mob of brainless to say that Dr. Jaus gains much dosh, you have to put a gun to his head, this did not happen with the military, and give and give.
say that in principle I agree: certainly a salary increase may not be worth the same as a human life Does it make sense then ask minimum services, exempting certain groups of workers the full right to strike? Wait, wait, before answering this question ...
I can, you do not.
Dr. Jaus works at a private clinic. This means that if the dying ñato is there is because it can pay, through their medical coverage or by any other means, the price demanded by the owner of the clinic. If you do not have that money, then it would not be accepted and could not be operated with Dr. Jaus.
In other words, the capitalist buys labor Dr. Jaus by a salary, and then resell the work to the public. The media indicated by the index to Dr. Jaus when you strike highlighting the value of human life, pure hypocrisy, the only human life is worth than you can afford. If you do not have money, you can die in the middle of the street.
more clear: according to the ideology that is imposed, the capitalist is able to price the work of the surgeon, a sacred right from which no no moral worth; but the surgeon can not put a price on their own work .
The case of the controllers is more indirect, but no different in its mechanism: Drivers allow air fabulous business airlines, whose owners make several hundred times more than it earns a driver barely moving a finger.
spoke to the media tired of the poor people stranded in airports, but quieted another reality: many people out of those airports can not travel, saw his family die away or could not go to another country to be a disease simply because have no money to pay the fare.
When we buy a plane ticket, no one asks us if we are going to visit Aunt Dorita going to look sick or ass to the beach. The only requirement imposed on us is to have money to pay the fare, the reasons moral matter at all. Nobody calls the capitalists "minimum service" so they can enjoy those in need but no money. In this case the logic of capitalism is adamantine: no money, no cake.
But if workers, strictly within the same capitalist logic refuse to sell their goods, their work-if not for the price they demand, then the media are stirring awake a humanitarian vein, supportive and tear , quasi-socialist awful thundering against those insatiable selfishness that keep us from traveling.
in Spain still speaking in the media of "privileged class" that are the drivers The only air privileged class! Neither the capitalists nor the banks that sucked money from the state (causing the fiscal deficit which payment is now required for all workers without exception), or the royal family and his dissolute celebrity are "privileged caste." Diaz Ferran (former president of the confederation entrepreneur, former owner of the defunct Air Madrid) can quietly for years owing money to workers and passengers who left on the ground while amasses a fortune. The only "abnormal" is that a group of workers earn good money.
And you have to burn his eyes with his stupidity, reading comments like this: "A street whore and earn a salary of shit like all my neighbors! "I can not imagine what kind of unhappy wrote this, but there is and probably not a capitalist but a worker earning the salary of shit you want to rest.
more appealing to resentment creeping , the media reported that air traffic controllers "earn too much money", and there were stupid people who signed the statement, even from the left. To prepare for then, because the standards can be applied with great imagination, simply find the appropriate match pattern : if drivers earn far more than a bank clerk, is no less true that a bank employee in Europe earns more than a worker Argentina, and this much more than an African. So how much do you earn? A thousand dollars a month? Come on buddy, that's a lot, believe me! We will lower the salary, piece preference, there are people who manages a dollar a day.
is true that the drivers made mistakes, they are paying and will pay. Therefore you do not make the same mistake, the government "progressive" (juaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!) that strangles the drivers today (decree of the state of emergency, military mobilization of workers) and is responsible for choking on behalf of the bourgeoisie to all workers . In fact it is already doing. Precisely so he needs to confront each other and to safeguard the sacred privilege of the capitalists. For them they are never worth the moral considerations, they can wield a cynical formula business is business, but the workers are bound by the sacred moral principle to work as soldiers and throw them twine. It's called "free market."
essential work
What jobs are essential? The answer is simple: everyone. Let's look at one of the things around us and ask why he has not left work: the table, chair, PC, to the street tree had to be planted by workers What if there were global strike of workers in the factories of condoms? And those who make computers, circuits, microchips? Or beds?
The work is indispensable, depend on it. The conclusion that we want to impose is that there should be no strikes, is the conclusion of those who do good business with other people's work. Human labor in capitalist society is subject to the vagaries of the purchase and sale, and logically to the positions of power who negotiate with him.
The work is essential and strategic to our survival as a species, precisely why it should not be bought or sold .
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