Noon on October 20, 2010 Mariano Ferreyraa 23-year-old militant of the Workers Partywas shot to death for a gang of the Railway Union then led by the Peronist union bureaucrat Jose Pedraza. The event caused a deep crisis in the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and a broad popular rejection, only tempered days later following the death of her husband and former president.
that day Mariano participated with outsourced workers Rock Railway in a protest to demand the move to permanent plant and the end of job insecurity. The gang, with the complicity of the Federal Police who liberated the area, pursued and ambushed the protesters in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracas, shooting at them.
Mariano was murdered y Elsa Rodríguezactivist of POit turned out seriously injured. This crime was a direct attack against the entire working class and a brutal example of how the union bureaucracy defends its privileges and businesses with sword and fire, in alliance with the State and employers.
The union bureaucracy of the Railway Union under the leadership of Pedrazawas a symbol of an enriched breed as a partner of large economic groups and privatized companies, especially through the management of the labor outsourcingwhich made thousands of workers precarious.
As pointed out in various notes of The Daily Left: “This was the symbol of a business union bureaucracy which, in the 90s, delivered to the working class and became rich as a partner of large economic groups and privatized companies through the management of labor outsourcing that makes workers precarious.”
The popular response in the face of this anti-worker crime was immediate and massive. The next day, One hundred thousand people marched throughout the country to demand justice and there were strikes and cuts in factories and workplaces. The worker and student mobilization was key to achieving, years later, the conviction of Pedraza and other material perpetrators of the murder. However, impunity persists: the Railway Union remains under the control of the same bureaucracy, The businessmen and state officials involved were never tried.and labor outsourcing is still in force for millions of workers.
The fight for justice Mariano Ferreyra It is also the fight to end the “holy alliance” between the union bureaucracy, the State and the employers. He way of working of bureaucracy and the fatal outcome uncovered the pot of a reality that millions of workers live: the outsourcing and the precarious worka business of which the State, employers and the union bureaucracy are part.
Pedraza was the owner of the Mercosur Cooperative that operated in the Rock Railway and was determined to defend their businesses with blood and fire. That’s why he sent his gang. Mariano Ferreyra He paid with his life to fight alongside the outsourced workers for the move to a permanent plant. A slogan that is a flag for workers throughout the country when a large part remains hired or unemployed.
15 years after the murder of Mariano Ferreyrawe continue to demand the end of impunity, prison for all those responsible and we fight for the defeat of the entire union bureaucracy, which when it believes it is convenient to do so, murders.
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Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
