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A synthetic presentation of CUB
AGAINST
the war, capitalism, for strong stable relations at a European level with grass
roots and alternative organizations for a common struggle. 10 years of
struggling experience! CUB
(Confederation Unitaria di Base) grew out of a decision in 1992 in Milan
following the decision of hundreds of union members and hundreds of workers to
break with the policies of Cgil-cisl-uil; the traditional Italian unions which
had shown themselves more and more subordinate to managerial ideologies and
acted in agreement with government and company owners, that is not with the
needs of workers. The
broken-off group, CUB is much more interested in the grass-root needs of people,
more interested in humanity, the needs of social justice and democracy, and
against repression an war. Our
presence in anti-capitalist initiatives and the European Social Forum in
Florence can be seen in light of its coherent following of values. CUB
has upheld these values from the very beginning. In
the last three years CUB has participated in the General Strike on May 13, 1999
and in the demonstrations against the Ex-Yugoslavia in which not only the
Centre-left government but also the cgil-cisl-uil were in total agreement; or as
they said a painful necessity. Following
a series of surveys and legal cases which lasted years, CUB and Medicina
Democratica were admitted as a civil body in the case against the petrochemical
industry of Marghera (Venice); here the court system with its rulings have been
charged with slaughter and environmental disaster. We
were at the General Strike of July 20, 2001 against the G8 meeting in Genova
with thousands of workers. The strikes and the demonstrations in October
against the Governments Libro Bianco policy which aims at making all jobs
precarious positions. A
more widespread urgency for grass-roots unions grows out of a social scheme
which considers the company level, job categories, and the national situation. In
this way company owners and governments can be opposed, concretely Demonstrated
against. Only
at a European level can we group to struggle against war policies and capitalism.
This
explains why CUB has always tried to create widespread bonds in which to work
and struggle against mainstream unions. In
2002 grass-roots unionism started 3 general Strikes where thousands of workers,
limited-contract employees, and students, demonstrations against the war,
antisocial-policies, disconcerting political moves, the Bossi/Fini law on
immigration, privatizations, limiting contracts for private and Public workers,
unjustifiable retirement pakages cut-offs, the exstending of article 18 which is
a law which guarantees against firing without just causes, the defense of public
schools, social safety nets, the National Health System, guarantees incomes etc.
For a
few years now, CUB has been running a front of struggle and initiatives working
with the young and workers with limited-time contracts in collaboration with
Chain Worker, a group which began with the May 1st demonstrations against
limited-contract work and for European salaries. A great number of people were
at these demonstrations; its enough to think that at this years there were
30,000 workers, mostly young, as well as participation on the part of many
diversified Italian social centers. From its beginning CUB has been
working in numerous employment areas against sudden random firings which are
masked as official lay-offs; often such firing were part of agreements made
between companies and the Cgi-cisl-uil unions. In
recent days it has organised demonstrations against current FIAT plans which
foresee the firing of thousands of workers and the closure of whole plants, like
the one in Arese (Milan) and the one in Termini Imerese (Pa). December
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