1. Beyond surveys interesting and interested, if we do a bit of "sociology of bar we can see that ordinary people is not very happy with the labor reform and social cutbacks that we have for weather vanes governments are considering taking advantage of the new (im) balance of forces to disrupt the position of workers. I think most people realize that "this is so and does not buy the arguments, the excuses, the Government of the nation because it is patently clear that I said before I say and now says dingo (guau!).
2. However, it is also true that many of these people, "vaguely pissed off" for labor and social policies of the Government are in no way willing to participate in the general strike called for 29 September. What happens?
3. Some of the reasons given for not to the strike are "lifetime", which are present in any strike: some are not pissed off enough to lose the salary for the need the money, others are afraid of losing their job or suffer other business reprisals. On these grounds there is little to discuss. Everyone has to look at the pros and cons of participating in the protest day and decide freely and making appropriate weighting.
4. However, these reasons are added others that are more appropriate for our specific situation may be present in other strikes, but here they are with special virulence. These are the reasons the more I want to discuss at this time.
5. The truth is that it is palpable on the street delegitimization today suffer unions in representing the interests of the working class. Thus, many workers do not want to do not strike a "favor" to the unions, institutions that are not identified and why it does not feel supported at all. The legitimacy of the unions is due to a very diverse and complex, it is a very important topic, which try to address in this blog later from a more analytical moral.
is certainly desirable The unions also make a deep reflection on this problem in order to rethink their strategies in the future, because I think we are bottoming out in the model of representation that was made from the transition. For the unions is too easy to throw balls out and merely find that it has mounted a campaign against them. I think it's true that it has assembled, but it is also true that this campaign is able to permeate the public because there really are real problems of representativeness (and employee involvement, on the other side). Now all this has nothing to do, in my opinion, the decision whether or not to strike.
6. is true that the strike the unions convened, as one would expect, since these subjects are legally entitled to it. It is also true that unions have an enormous stake in this conflict as organizations. Relative success can keep up, a resounding failure might further affect the deterioration of their public image. But beyond all this, strikes are not in the interests of unions, but in the interest of workers. unions might like us much, just or fair, but the truth is that right now are the only instrument that has the working class to defend their personal and collective interests at a time in which there are many things at stake.
Whether you fall you sympathetic or unsympathetic the delegate class. If you think that their claims are fair and that will benefit you and your colleagues, you should support them. You are not doing a favor to the delegate of the class. You're doing a favor for yourself and your classmates. If you agree with the objectives of the strike, it makes little sense to reject it because they feel antipathy toward the jurors. You're throwing stones at your own roof. In any case, does not endorse the delegate when you think their demands are not fair.
7. Here is then a second type of argument. You might like the claims the delegate, but do not approve of the means used to defend them. I think now the problem is not that English workers seem erroneous strike as a means of protest in general, but many people believe that exercise will be useless . And nobody wants to lose pay or be wrong with the employer, if you do not plan to "get" anything.
is true that the us government policies are presented as a fait accompli against which always react too late. The labor reform was discussed and approved by the alleged representatives of the People. Now what? Are we going to roll back even the success of the call out overwhelming? Is it possible that overwhelming success? Are we only before a little tantrum strategic association?
8. Go ahead I think that unfortunately, the general strike is a bit powerful weapon to win the battle because the forces are quite unbalanced for various reasons. However, I also believe that at this very moment is the only tool we have. After September 29 we will see what we manufacture. Imagine entering a murderer in your house armed with a gun and you just hand the baton to defend his grandfather. Are you gonna drop the stick because I like to have automatic weapons? The case is that the guy is breaking into your house and all you have is a stick. If you want more, yes, surrender the murderer to see if you can save his skin.
This parable brings us to the question of dignity. I recently read there on the Internet worlds in a battle can be other battles against other adversaries, and that thought seems to me very clear and suggestive. Imagine you are at school and a bully stronger than you gives you pudding every day. "You'll never stand up? How long are you going to take? If you hold forever if you give always what image you go by yourself? How will you gradually transforming dealings with others? What the hell you become? If you stand up, as normal is that the bully me hit a good beating. But it may be worth having won a battle against yourself, feel that you are not an object, punching bag, but a guy with flesh and eyes, a subject wimp, but after all, someone who is alive and moving. Apart from this, it may be that the donkey accidentally touch the flute and the bully takes a hit in a bad place to end the fighting and abuse. Or, if you take the beating, the bully will have a little more respect and I think a little more than if you just be a report object. I do not know. Depend on each case.
9. One of my favorite mantras is the sentence of the playwright and politician Vaclav Havel: "Hope is not same thing as optimism is not the certainty that something will turn out fine, but the conviction that something makes sense , regardless of the outcome . " Well, I think in this case participate in the strike makes sense, regardless of which end up being a success, failure or something in between. Because a personal level (individual-in-group) this strike can help win the battle we are waging against our apathy, our conformity, our unconscious and our (pardon me) pusillanimity. A battle within a battle.
Because I really think that under the previous reasons not to strike (wage loss, fear of the employer, unions distrust, pessimism about the results) flaps also a deeper reason, feeding and increases the strength of all the above. Mostly, we are asleep. Sedated. Amer. Blind, mute and deaf. Unable to react. Any reason is good, therefore, to let everything go as it is.
We have focused so much on ourselves (or our own families), our most immediate and individual interests in the world of Barney the mindless consumption or permanent stress, which we have become what the ancient Greeks called idiots. Those who are shying away from public affairs because they live in the small enclosed world of their own interests, mistakenly believing that this world is isolated from everything else. Do not we want to know what happens. We do not want to become involved in what happens. We just want to be left alone. The blame for all the politicians, bankers, businessmen, trade unionists. We complain bitterly about all of them, but we do absolutely nothing. Leave us in peace. The peace of the graveyard. not know then that we solidum , we do not live in isolation, that public life affects us in one way or another. We are selling our soul to nothing.
10. to transform into something else, we need a little magic. From Maricastaña times, people have become aware of their life and social transformation through rites of passage. Collective actions in which one becomes aware that the world changes and we change with it. So with the "war dance", which transforms people-perhaps peaceful farmers, warriors imbued with the strength of its ancestors, the power of the collective.
Here's a personal dimension, detached, almost mystical. Strike to make us aware what is happening and to make us react. As if we had stayed one hand we have to shake it to wake up, not why we're using, but we're finally getting to work. However, in this case not just a personal ritual or private. Because the consciousness that we are talking about is a form of collective consciousness forces us out of ourselves to discover that we are part of a totality, a solidum . "Solidarity " is. There is a heroism or an act of holiness, but simply a clever act of understanding, a "realization" of how we depend on each other, how we are part of the same thing, breaking the boundaries of idiocy.
11. I think this strike (and the demonstrations that do) can and should be like a war dance. A collective celebration in which we celebrate the awakening of our consciousness as warriors of the tribe, people concerned about the world around us and affects us. It's a start, only a beginning to gather strength, to roar, to become again as a group to be involved in what happens to us, to stop being idiots, to discover each other, to not let the bullies we stick stamped . For surely going to come over for the next battle and we do not want to get back to sleep.
2. However, it is also true that many of these people, "vaguely pissed off" for labor and social policies of the Government are in no way willing to participate in the general strike called for 29 September. What happens?
3. Some of the reasons given for not to the strike are "lifetime", which are present in any strike: some are not pissed off enough to lose the salary for the need the money, others are afraid of losing their job or suffer other business reprisals. On these grounds there is little to discuss. Everyone has to look at the pros and cons of participating in the protest day and decide freely and making appropriate weighting.
4. However, these reasons are added others that are more appropriate for our specific situation may be present in other strikes, but here they are with special virulence. These are the reasons the more I want to discuss at this time.
5. The truth is that it is palpable on the street delegitimization today suffer unions in representing the interests of the working class. Thus, many workers do not want to do not strike a "favor" to the unions, institutions that are not identified and why it does not feel supported at all. The legitimacy of the unions is due to a very diverse and complex, it is a very important topic, which try to address in this blog later from a more analytical moral.
is certainly desirable The unions also make a deep reflection on this problem in order to rethink their strategies in the future, because I think we are bottoming out in the model of representation that was made from the transition. For the unions is too easy to throw balls out and merely find that it has mounted a campaign against them. I think it's true that it has assembled, but it is also true that this campaign is able to permeate the public because there really are real problems of representativeness (and employee involvement, on the other side). Now all this has nothing to do, in my opinion, the decision whether or not to strike.
6. is true that the strike the unions convened, as one would expect, since these subjects are legally entitled to it. It is also true that unions have an enormous stake in this conflict as organizations. Relative success can keep up, a resounding failure might further affect the deterioration of their public image. But beyond all this, strikes are not in the interests of unions, but in the interest of workers. unions might like us much, just or fair, but the truth is that right now are the only instrument that has the working class to defend their personal and collective interests at a time in which there are many things at stake.
Whether you fall you sympathetic or unsympathetic the delegate class. If you think that their claims are fair and that will benefit you and your colleagues, you should support them. You are not doing a favor to the delegate of the class. You're doing a favor for yourself and your classmates. If you agree with the objectives of the strike, it makes little sense to reject it because they feel antipathy toward the jurors. You're throwing stones at your own roof. In any case, does not endorse the delegate when you think their demands are not fair.
7. Here is then a second type of argument. You might like the claims the delegate, but do not approve of the means used to defend them. I think now the problem is not that English workers seem erroneous strike as a means of protest in general, but many people believe that exercise will be useless . And nobody wants to lose pay or be wrong with the employer, if you do not plan to "get" anything.
is true that the us government policies are presented as a fait accompli against which always react too late. The labor reform was discussed and approved by the alleged representatives of the People. Now what? Are we going to roll back even the success of the call out overwhelming? Is it possible that overwhelming success? Are we only before a little tantrum strategic association?
8. Go ahead I think that unfortunately, the general strike is a bit powerful weapon to win the battle because the forces are quite unbalanced for various reasons. However, I also believe that at this very moment is the only tool we have. After September 29 we will see what we manufacture. Imagine entering a murderer in your house armed with a gun and you just hand the baton to defend his grandfather. Are you gonna drop the stick because I like to have automatic weapons? The case is that the guy is breaking into your house and all you have is a stick. If you want more, yes, surrender the murderer to see if you can save his skin.
This parable brings us to the question of dignity. I recently read there on the Internet worlds in a battle can be other battles against other adversaries, and that thought seems to me very clear and suggestive. Imagine you are at school and a bully stronger than you gives you pudding every day. "You'll never stand up? How long are you going to take? If you hold forever if you give always what image you go by yourself? How will you gradually transforming dealings with others? What the hell you become? If you stand up, as normal is that the bully me hit a good beating. But it may be worth having won a battle against yourself, feel that you are not an object, punching bag, but a guy with flesh and eyes, a subject wimp, but after all, someone who is alive and moving. Apart from this, it may be that the donkey accidentally touch the flute and the bully takes a hit in a bad place to end the fighting and abuse. Or, if you take the beating, the bully will have a little more respect and I think a little more than if you just be a report object. I do not know. Depend on each case.
9. One of my favorite mantras is the sentence of the playwright and politician Vaclav Havel: "Hope is not same thing as optimism is not the certainty that something will turn out fine, but the conviction that something makes sense , regardless of the outcome . " Well, I think in this case participate in the strike makes sense, regardless of which end up being a success, failure or something in between. Because a personal level (individual-in-group) this strike can help win the battle we are waging against our apathy, our conformity, our unconscious and our (pardon me) pusillanimity. A battle within a battle.
Because I really think that under the previous reasons not to strike (wage loss, fear of the employer, unions distrust, pessimism about the results) flaps also a deeper reason, feeding and increases the strength of all the above. Mostly, we are asleep. Sedated. Amer. Blind, mute and deaf. Unable to react. Any reason is good, therefore, to let everything go as it is.
We have focused so much on ourselves (or our own families), our most immediate and individual interests in the world of Barney the mindless consumption or permanent stress, which we have become what the ancient Greeks called idiots. Those who are shying away from public affairs because they live in the small enclosed world of their own interests, mistakenly believing that this world is isolated from everything else. Do not we want to know what happens. We do not want to become involved in what happens. We just want to be left alone. The blame for all the politicians, bankers, businessmen, trade unionists. We complain bitterly about all of them, but we do absolutely nothing. Leave us in peace. The peace of the graveyard. not know then that we solidum , we do not live in isolation, that public life affects us in one way or another. We are selling our soul to nothing.
10. to transform into something else, we need a little magic. From Maricastaña times, people have become aware of their life and social transformation through rites of passage. Collective actions in which one becomes aware that the world changes and we change with it. So with the "war dance", which transforms people-perhaps peaceful farmers, warriors imbued with the strength of its ancestors, the power of the collective.
Here's a personal dimension, detached, almost mystical. Strike to make us aware what is happening and to make us react. As if we had stayed one hand we have to shake it to wake up, not why we're using, but we're finally getting to work. However, in this case not just a personal ritual or private. Because the consciousness that we are talking about is a form of collective consciousness forces us out of ourselves to discover that we are part of a totality, a solidum . "Solidarity " is. There is a heroism or an act of holiness, but simply a clever act of understanding, a "realization" of how we depend on each other, how we are part of the same thing, breaking the boundaries of idiocy.
11. I think this strike (and the demonstrations that do) can and should be like a war dance. A collective celebration in which we celebrate the awakening of our consciousness as warriors of the tribe, people concerned about the world around us and affects us. It's a start, only a beginning to gather strength, to roar, to become again as a group to be involved in what happens to us, to stop being idiots, to discover each other, to not let the bullies we stick stamped . For surely going to come over for the next battle and we do not want to get back to sleep.
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