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Unity
It's obvious that to be an independent union
and to be a small union makes the struggle more difficult
but there is a case that we reference
and that all workers in the country can look at
and that case is Euzkadi
This is why we're here
and we should know that the union faces
a strike of three years, one month, and ten days
1141 days in strike
and the Euzkadi union came out victorious
against some of the most powerful transnationals in the world
like Continental
One of the most important things
is the struggle in the Euzkadi strike
like something you wouldn't believe
Because it's easy to read about it
we know about the compañeros' struggle ..
but to see it ...
when it dawns on you that a worker
is the president of the cooperative
and s/he explains the whole process, when you see the workers...
Tire paint, finishing up
Okay, so let's start walking, because the plant is more than one kilometer, let's go.
So to pull out was complicated
It was more than three years there, stopped in the plant
we tried to keep order
Come see how clean this is, and we don't have a cleaning area
-What did you notice that was different, compañero?
The biggest difference from this plant
and the one I work in is that here there are no supervisors
not even a helper of a helper of a supervisor
That is to say, the factory only produces one thing with the workers
nothing else is needed except the workers, and the prime material
-Until you see Chuy working
Now that he saw the Bamburi, he remembers his own job.
You're saying that it made him nostalgia.
-How many years have you worked operating the Bamburi, compañero?
-Five years
-and will you go back there?
-Of course not, we won't go back there
it's going to be ours like this place here. Am I right?
The struggle was what made us capable of administrating this factory
because our compañeros were able to resist a busines like Continental
I think that it's believable that they are capable of administrating the plant
Relations with the Eukadi union come from the union's international relationships
That allowed us to go to Hannover, Germany
on various occasions
Actually, since 2004 and this year too.
Probably it sounds ambicious
but we don't have another option except to find an international organization
and through this
stop the exploitation that these companies have been carrying out for decades
I think all Conti workers should understand that
only united we can face this company
because meanwhile the company keeps negociating
as an individual with the unions
Without a strategy for all global workers
the company will keep winning and dimminishing
the working conditions of these jobs
If there are no unions, we are trapped
left with nothing, not evenwork.
This is the idea, to resist Continental one more day
becaue we know the road to triumph clearly
to better working conditions
That's the fight, that's the struggle
and there is no other
If there's no solution, there will be revolution!