After 8 months of struggle, 11 workers were reinstated at JF Secco Industries. The press and journalism called them at the time the “firefighters of light,” but with their victory they now speak of “a lighthouse for those facing the wave of layoffs.”
Since last weekend, several meetings, plenaries and actions were held in which hundreds of militant activists and leaders of the working class participated, the central axis of which was an exchange to prepare a fight against the slave labor reform and concrete measures so that the current conflicts against layoffs triumph.
In this framework, Secco workers returned to work but did not take vacations from the fight. They immediately showed solidarity with the Lustramax workers: participating in the Panamericana cuts, the solidarity camp, the festival they organized and being conveners of the coordination of workers from the northern area of Greater Buenos Aires that met last Saturday at the door of that same factory.
From the stage of that festival by Lustramax, Toni announced that he was the last reinstated and transmitted the experience of Secco’s fight to the young protagonists of this emblematic fight:
In the same place, days later, a delegation of Secco workers was present at the Norte coordination. Ariel Moreno took the floor, expressing that “it is a pride to be here in this working-class, democratic and combative plenary session at the doors of Lustramax, of this heroic resistance. (…) in the assembly we voted to go to all the coordinations where forces are joined to defeat this reform” and referring to his own conflict he stressed that “the government can be defeated, the bosses can be defeated, with coordination, democratic spaces like this, with measures of struggle voted for by all. That is why we define In assembly, be in all the places where the mobilizations are prepared, where we discuss surrounding the congress and in all the places where we fight because on the 11th, when the vote is taken, we not only surround the congress, but we manage to impose a general strike on the union bureaucracy so that Milei’s slave labor reform does not pass, to defeat its entire adjustment plan.
But their fight went beyond the northern area of Greater Buenos Aires. They were also part of the Coordination Plenary of the southern zone where everyone listened attentively to Sergio’s heartfelt words. In reference to the fight against his layoffs, he said that “everyone told us that it is impossible, they will not be able to. As most people now say: it is impossible to fight against the labor reform, they will impose it. We achieved it, we fought against a multinational, we were not lucky, we organized ourselves and we were able to do it. If we let them impose this labor reform, the ones who will really suffer are our children. If we really organize ourselves, they will not pass us by.”
Fernando, also reinstated, had expressed himself in the same sense at a workers’ assembly in Ituzaingó, in which the national deputy Nicolás del Caño participated. After thanking everyone who accompanied their fight, he stressed that they were able to achieve a victory, but that “at first we wanted our job and then we realized, throughout the fight, that it was not the main objective. The main objective was also to leave an example that you can fight against governments that have all the economic power, that are supported by justice, by the ministries of labor (…) you can defeat these governments that have this cruelty against working people,” he said hopefully.
At the Plenary of Combative Unionism in Parque Lezama, the Secco workers also took the floor, realizing that their conflict was the prelude to labor reform. That we must surround all the ongoing struggles, as in Lustramax and as they did in Secco. And now the challenge is to surround Congress and demand a general strike against the reform and to defeat all of the Milei government’s attacks.
Days later and upon learning of a new attack by the government on the Garrahan workers, they were once again present at the Hospital, just as they were previously at the open assembly held at the Posadas where the emptying that threatens the right to health deepens.
Laura, representing the workers and families of Secco, sensitized by the Garrahan situation, took the microphone and expressed “I love this hospital, because I walked these corridors with my children. And they are going to have me on the street, next to them, always (…) if the heads don’t react, it doesn’t matter. Those at the bottom have to move (…) we, being just 20 workers, were able to defeat a multinational, how can the workers of an entire country not be able to?” defeat this reform!?” (…) “we all have to be on the street on the 11th, no one has to be missing, we have to lower this reform.”
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
