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BIG MEETING OF OCCUPIED FACTORIES
Por ARTHUR -
Monday, Sep. 09, 2002 at 2:19 AM
NATIONAL MEETING OF OCCUPIED FACTORIES HOSTED BY BRUKMAN
BIG MEETING OF OCCUPIED FACTORIES
Saturday September 7, 2002.
Near 2000 workers, assemblies’ participants, picketers and students are attending the Second National Meeting of Occupied Factories
National Meeting of occupied factories hosted by Brukman
On September 7, almost 2000 workers, assemblies’ participants, picketers and students are attending the Second National of Occupied Factories on struggle held at the Brukman textile plant in the city of Buenos Aires.
The female workers at Brukman, along with Zanón’s ceramic workers and those coming from Clínica Junín in Córdoba -all enterprises being run by direct workers’ management- have convened the meeting, at which both enterprises under workers’ control and cooperatives have come together. The miners from Río Turbio in the province of Santa Cruz, the metal workers from Renacer in Ushuaia, those from Supermercado Tigre and Cristalería Cuyo in Rosario are also participating of the event, alongside delegates coming from the Neuquén-based ceramic mills Steffani and Del Valle, the printers at Chilavert and cooperatives such as the Río Negro-based meat packing plant JJ Gómez (former Fricader), the industrial bakery El Aguante (former Panificación Cinco) and Córdoba-based Flexicoop. To these we should add representatives from Flash (an occupied factory), the cooperative General Pehuel, the metal works La Baskonia located in La Matanza, among others. Many of them were present last week in Avellaneda defending both the workers and the cooperative Lavalán, which fought back the police eviction. All participants have clearly stated that “an injury to one is an injury to all”.
Delegations from the unemployed movements CTD Anibal Verón, Neuquén’s MTD, the Mar del Plata-based UVO, the UTD from Berisso and Ensenada are also attending the meeting, as well as members from the MIJD (unemployed and retired workers) and the Bloque Piquetero Nacional.
Among the workers on struggle opposing the existing union leaderships in the unions stood out those coming from the Neuquén’s health branch in the state workers union -ATE-, those from the Haedo branch of the Unión Ferroviaria (railworkers), laid-off railway workers from Transportes Metropolitano, Río de la Plata bus drivers, shop-stewards from Luz y Fuerza (a Córdoba- based electricity workers’ union), the Shipyard Río Santiago, Pepsico Snacks, the Buenos Aires branch of FOETRA (telephone company workers), the Buenos Aires-based meat-packing workers union, from UTA (bus drivers union), shop-stewards committees such as that from the Child’s Hospital Garrahan and the daily La Nación, teachers from various branches of SUTEBA (teachers’ union), and the Lista Naranja (Orange Ticket) from the Neuquén, Quilmes and Pilar branches of UOCRA (building workers’ union).
The participation of 34 neighbours’ assemblies from Buenos Aires and the Greater Buenos Aires, as well as that of various secondary and university students’ unions bears testimony to the strong appeal of the meeting. The American sociologist James Petras and the Hebe de Bonafini-led sector of Madres de Plaza de Mayo (mothers of the disappeared) also sent their solidarity to the meeting.
As the meeting was drawing to a close, a motion for a Nationwide Day of Struggle of the occupied enterprises was being submitted to it. A decision to set up a Nationwide strike Fund to aid all workers on struggle and a proposal for unity with the assemblies’ participants and the picketers movements across the country were also passed.