Dec 072023
 

We are pleased to inform you that from the joint action of the educational centers of Maresme and Vallès Oriental we have forced the Generalitat to carry out the compulsory annual medical examination in all Catalan schools and institutes, in compliance with the Statute of Workers and the Law on the Prevention of Occupational Risks (which up until now were passed over with impunity).

As a strategy we have used the sum of many individual complaints from workers to the Labor Inspectorate, skipping the inefficient corporate months, that they did nothing but throw balls out about it. Collective Action i Direct we call it.

As a result of our complaints, the Labor Inspectorate requires the Department of Education of the Generalitat to carry out this in all schools in the non-university public network and gives it until the day 9 of July of 2024 to make them effective.

Let's be on the lookout from all the work centers so that the annual regularity is met and maintained.

We encourage you to continue reporting to the Labor Inspectorate to further increase the pressure and public shame of the Generalitat. They take a year to respond, but it works.

We remind you that complaints to the Labor Inspectorate are free and guarantee the confidentiality of the person making the complaint.

ENCOURAGE YOURSELF TO REPORT AND DEMAND AN ANNUAL MEDICAL EXAMINATION AT YOUR SCHOOL, INSTITUTE! [also in any work center in any sector where it is not fulfilled]

We attach the link to the complaint model and the argument to be presented. For any doubts contact us:
vallesoriental.cgt.ensenyament@gmail.com

cgtensenyamentmaresme@cgtcatalunya.cat

 

[The complaint model]

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND BUSINESS (WORK INSPECTION)
https://web.gencat.cat/ca/tramits/tramits-temes/20558-Denuncia-per-irregularitats-laborals?category=&moda=1

I PRESENT:
That in compliment of the Article 4.2 of the Workers' Statute and the articles 14 jo 22 of the Law 31/1995, from 8 November, de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales all companies should carry out an annual medical examination for all workers in their centers.
That the Department of Education of the Generalitat de Catalunya has been for years, in some cases up to a decade, without fulfilling this responsibility with the workers who depend on them, in all the provinces of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia.

SUN LAWFUL:
– That your institution requests the corresponding documentation from the Department of Education of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
– That your institution put an end to this negligent action that threatens the right to occupational health of workers.
- That your institution investigates the causes of this violation and establishes responsibilities.
- That from this same course 202
3-2024 and henceforth the Department of Education of the Generalitat de Catalunya complies with its obligation to guarantee the corresponding annual medical check-up for all the workers in its centers, or to its centers and/or organizations that depend on them, are hired directly, o no. However, exercise the corresponding proactive responsibility in cases where results among its workers require it.

Nov 242023
 

In Picking We had always been with what we believed were “the unions.”, commissions i Ugt. They came to us, They set up the entire electoral racket for us, we didn't have to worry about anything. Yes indeed, when it was necessary to negotiate in the Committee or when the company exceeded its abuses with some of the workers and they required advice and support to combat it, The answer was “it is what it is.”, the law is like that, "no more can be done". Imagine the anger and helplessness it generated in the squad.: suffer injustices, not knowing how to face them and having your supposed defenders ignore you because “it is what it is”.

Then we heard that from the Grífols laboratories, tired of the same, they had joined a union called CGT en masse, that we were always told that they were revolutionaries "they close companies", and now they were doing much better. What they did and what they demanded was what the workers themselves decided., vaya.

So that, some of us approached the place in Mollet del Vallès.

At first it gave crab, friendly but direct people. They didn't exactly promise us the golden sky and they did promise us that they would accompany us and help us., but that it was us who had to be aware of our rights and learn to claim them. You don't have to know much about laws, that the laws are written there to be used when necessary. And be able to go further.

The first day was perhaps not to return. but we came back.

And they helped us, wow they helped us, but they also passed on to us the responsibility of deciding and being sovereignly autonomous for the first time.. And that takes effort, it even hurts. But once you free yourself from the corset of clientelistic dependency, you fly, you feel brave, you dare to openly vindicate that which should be yours by right and that are not alms or crumbs from the Patron. It's called seeing clearly..

And we broke our chains with the collaborationist unions with the companies: We stand in union elections as ourselves, with the colleagues of the CGT.

And the day 23 November we vote. The emotion was great. Exhausted by the preparation work done, for the first time by ourselves, excitement for potential support (o no) of our own companions to the emancipatory process, fear of having shown our face and if we lost there would be consequences.

but we win. Sometimes the hunger for freedom also attracts the bird that lives comfortably fed in the cage.. Unbridled euphoria. Magic. At first we didn't believe it.

Now it's time to step firmly and begin the arduous task of vindicating the rights that have come to us during all these years. bullfighting the company with the invaluable collaboration of the “union advisors” of the unions-management. BUT NOW WE WILL DO IT, UNITED, WITHOUT INTERMEDIARIES.

In this fight we have all been women, our 25N against corporate patriarchy.

A big grateful hug to the colleagues of the CGT of Vallès Oriental, all workers too.

Our small and modest revolution, but our.

Oct 312023
 

[LABOR PEDAGOGY: Conclusions of the Pedagogical Reflection Days of the Isarda Group]

The teachers, Catalan professors have been developing our professional activity for decades, understanding and taking the students at the center of the learning process.

Along these lines, we accompany them in the individual development of their skills, strictly respecting the corresponding pace of learning for each child and young person.

In our Pedagogical Reflection Days, we have appreciated that the enormous human and humanistic effort made by Catalan school workers to adapt the competence achievement process of our young people to their own characteristics, needs, emotions and learning rhythms does not have any kind of decent continuity in the Catalan company.

The company selects and segregates the young worker according to levels of competence and experience, throwing down the sink all the baggage and inclusive and comprehensive pedagogical effort implemented by the teaching staff.

At this point: or the school is wrong, and we already have our beloved politicians working hard to renew the curricula and adapt them to a selective and segregating model as demanded by the current company, or it is the company that urgently needs a profound reconversion to fit into the characteristics of Catalan society.

In a first analysis we have relied on infallibility, independence of judgment and independence from factual lobbies, of the Catalan political class when determining the appropriate studies and methodologies in the training of the Catalans of the future.

This being so, we have determined that it is the Catalan business community that errs in its approach, since it focuses on the reductionisms of the final product and profit.

It is very clear that a business model that focuses all its objectives on these precepts will never be able to go hand in hand with a school that is competent and sympathetic to people's needs. This employer model would be at odds with a competitive school, selective, meritocratic and segregating, with individualistic effort as the main value, to put each student "in his place", greatly facilitating an "orderly transition" from school to work. A "classist" arrangement, need.

Resuming the premise of the infallibility of the curricula ordered by our political class [in the next days of pedagogical analysis, the review of its suitability is planned: both of them, like others], the Isarda Group has concluded that the Catalan company should necessarily make the corresponding effort of empathy and corporate improvement to adapt to the characteristics and immanent needs of the young and adult population of Catalonia in the XXI Century.

In order to be in tune with today's Catalan society, business should urgently reinvent itself and innovate its outlook, rigidly anchored in the productivism of past centuries that have already been overcome. He should renew his focus and redirect it towards the worker (and worker) as a center of trunk interest. After all, it is the workers who make the work possible.

When leaving school (means institute, university) young Catalans are competently trained through decades of a complex and delicate learning process based on their interests, abilities and learning rates, these being particular and individualized.

Like this, it makes no sense for the company to escape the comprehensive course focused on the now former student by selecting him and emotionally draining him in procedures of well-publicized personal frustration.

It is the company that must take on the challenge of changing its outlook and creatively reinvent itself, adapting its production or services to the interests of each and every one of its workers. The same should be done with production processes, work rhythms, competence capabilities, uniforms, vacation…

That it is difficult to adapt to such diversity and that a company in one sector cannot start producing T-shirts at the same time, sweets, video games and jams so that this corresponds to the interests of their workers, trained in the creativity of learning to learn? And that he can't do the schedules and holidays that they want, paying them the salary they need? That every productive process needs good organization and cannot be based on a series of improvised events? That a single company cannot comprehensively attend to their individual needs 200 workers?

We are in the 21st century and we must adapt to its challenges.

Advanced companies must turn difficulties into upheavals and see them as opportunities and challenges to overcome day by day.

What better challenge than to make the country's production and services humbly available, interests, capacities and rhythms of Catalan citizenship.

That would be making a country!

Politicians you are soul crushing and burying the excellent teachers under tons of red tape;

Entrepreneurs who only do it for your own personal gain:

YOU GET THERE?

Oct 282023
 

Friday. autumn evening. Girona. A bus leaves from Passeig d'Olot.
This will still stop in Mollet del Vallès and Sabadell.

It will be filled with people who, exhausted from the work week, they go further and this weekend they will travel 500 kilometers to Madrid to demand an end to speculative price inflation and preventive actions to maintain Universal Public Health and Retirement Pensions in the near and distant future. The thing also warms up to beleaguered colleagues. And real democracy.

Some of the travelers have just folded the “curro”.
It will be a long and sleepless journey. Other classmates were unable to attend this time. After, a tedious return home.

And so from many parts of the peninsular territory. During a break on the journey, they meet Rubí's colleagues. Also from Valencia.

Sometimes it's time to really roll up your sleeves, because the Cause well deserves it.
Today is one. There will most likely be many more.

The fatigue of the journey takes its toll and the procession finds it difficult to follow the chants, slogans and dances during the demonstration.
So much is worth. There they are. A grain of sand.
The atmosphere is one of humility and self-sacrificing brotherhood. This matters!

To all those who dedicate their lives to noble causes!

ADMIRABLE!

 

 

Oct 202023
 

A year ago a group of colleagues set up as a Trade Union Section against the passivity of the CCOO in the company. We won the union elections. Since then we have recovered the initiative as workers who are complaining, demanding and, if necessary, reporting:

– The repair of seriously damaged building infrastructure, like roofs.

– Adaptation of the air conditioning inside the ship to current legislation, both in summer and winter.

– We have reactivated the initiative of the working party in the safety and hygiene committee demanding improvements in safety during the working day.

In the next renewal of the chemicals sectoral agreement, we will fight for significant improvements in the negotiation of its application in Benvic.

The success of the resumption of the initiative in the recovery of our dignity as workers lies in the assembly organization, breaking with the demobilizing leaderships of pactist unionism.

Sep 292023
 

Yesterday evening a colleague stopped by the union premises. His expression betrayed that the day had been adverse to him.

Suddenly a smile lit up his face: «-The colleagues of XXXXXX* have won the union elections».

*We do not mention the name of the company because even the workers expressly ignored it in their campaign, as a result of his unworthy attitude towards them. Don't mention the pig's name, although we all know who he is.

The victory in the electoral process was anecdotal. Those lips showed pride for the colleagues with whom he had worked side by side since a few years ago a ruthless employer had abandoned them "due to insolvency". The City Council of Mollet del Vallès, for which the failed subcontractor worked, he did not do much better and belittled them to inhuman extremes. It was necessary, from scratch, fight for surrogacy.

The new bidding company, the current unmentionable, has been treating them with arrogance and contempt: harassing pursuits by supervisory individuals, recurring threats of sanctions and suspension of salary, despotic dismissals of colleagues.

One of the colleagues harassed and threatened with sanctions ended up dead in what bourgeois laws euphemistically call a "work accident". Our companies were criminally reported for daring to say that certain "work accidents" are rather murders.

The empire of the law of the strongest, threats, persecutions, dismissals, a dead person, criminal complaints, serious diseases… anywhere they would have imposed the silence and mass surrender.

BUT WE ARE NOT ANY PLACE HERE.

These colleagues didn't know much about it a while ago, of Rights, they had the lost look of the lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

Some and some gave very generously much of their time, wisdom and energy to teach them that dignity was within them and that they had to use it to be autonomous in the struggle to take the snake by the neck.

As of today, these colleagues have been around for a long time, when crossing them through the union, they no longer have a skewed gaze, but penetrating, the eyes of the dignity of the workers who, despite the condition of being humble, they know how to hold the boss's gaze and sing him the truths, demand his Rights and denounce every charlatan and force him to readmit dismissed workers.

And they do it alone, and they can help the rest of us.

Thanks to the selfless people who gave their time, not to direct them but to teach them in emancipatory autonomy.

Win union elections, an anecdote. THE SMILE, DIGNITY.

I probably shouldn't be the best person to write these lyrics, but no one else will.

Certain invisible situations deserve to be known, vindicated and not forgotten.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

 

A member of the Vallès Oriental trade union

Sep 282023
 

We are happy to inform you that our Trade Union Section at the Ramcon company, subcontractor from the cleaning sector that currently manages the tender for municipal cleaning services in Mollet del Vallès, has won the union elections.

The results were as follows:

CGT: 27 votes (two delegates)
UGT: 12 votes (a delegate)
this next saturday: 11 votes (a delegate)
InterSindical-CSC: 10 votes (a delegate)
COBAS: 10 votes (zero delegates) 

These last few years have been very hard and a constant struggle for our dignity as workers.

As a united collective that we are, we have not given up and we have vindicated ourselves and succeeded.

And we are proud of it!!

The Trade Union Section of the CGT in Ramcon

 

Sep 012023
 

Reconciling work and family life. New work permit for child care:

Mothers and fathers or legal guardians who are responsible for one or more children can enjoy different permits in the workplace to care for minors., complying with a series of requirements and adapting to the current regulations that regulate these assumptions. This is the case of the eight-week work permit that they can request on the occasion of returning to school..

The eight-week work permit is an aid to reconciling family and work for parents who have children under the age of 8 year old, who may be absent from their job for a maximum of eight weeks, continuously or discontinuously, both in the vacation months and with the arrival of back to school in the month of September.

This permission, duration not exceeding 8 weeks, continuous or discontinuous, It is non-transferable and can be enjoyed flexibly..

Workers will have the right to parental leave, for child care, daughter or minor fostered for a period of more than one year, until the minor turns eight years old, is included in the Royal Decree-Law 5/2023.

This permit can be enjoyed full-time or on a part-time basis., as an individual right of men and women, without your exercise being able to be transferred.

How do you apply for parental leave? 8 weeks?
The aforementioned regulations also regulate the way in which the interested party can request this right., since it is the worker himself who has to request it from his company: “It will be up to the worker to specify the start and end date of the enjoyment or, in your case, of the periods of enjoyment”, indicated.

further, You must notify the company in advance of 10 days or the one specified by the collective agreements, except force majeure, taking into account the situation and the organizational needs of the company.

Finally, you have to know that, in the event that several people from the same company can and want to benefit from this right in the same period of time, disrupting the proper functioning of the company, The postponement of the concession can be agreed for a reasonable period, justifying it in writing and after having offered an equally flexible alternative for enjoyment.

It is an UNpaid Permit.

Aug 282023
 

The labor regulations applicable to excess temperature in classrooms are the Royal Decree 486/1997, from 14 d’abril, which establishes the minimum health and safety provisions in workplaces (BOE number. 97, from 23 of April of 1997), Modified by Royal Decree 2177/2004.

https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-1997-8669

This establishes that the temperatures in the classrooms must be between 17ºC and 27 ºC.

In addition, the State Parliament approved the accession and ratification of the UN Declaration of Children's Rights: https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-1990-31312

In addition to Labor Law, teachers are responsible for protecting the health of young people and children.

Given that the Generalitat and the State make wet paper of their own regulations we will have to use theDirect Action (obviously legally protected because it is intended to enforce its own legal regulations). Let's see what they will say from the Judiciary, if from the Generalitat they get on our ass.

HOW WE SHOULD ACT?

1- We take collective action agreements from the trade union sections of the work center, in the cloister or company assemblies.

2- We place a thermometer in one of the center's classrooms (the miscellaneous).

3- When it exceeds the legally permitted temperature, we notify the rest of our colleagues.

4- We photograph the thermometer in the classroom together with a device that indicates the day and time.

5- We go out with the students from the classrooms to spaces in the center with temperatures that comply with the law.

6- We send the information through a secure means to the Center's Occupational Risk Coordinator, so that he can send it to the Directorate and this to the Education department.

7- Faced with any hierarchical threat, we call the police.

8- We are actively spreading the situation through social networks indicating the centre, the population and mentioning the Generalitat and the Department of Education. (If necessary, you can send them to us and we will do it vallesoriental.cgt.ensenyament@gmail.com ).

9- If we receive threats from the Management, let us know and we'll figure it out.

Obviously we will be more protected and protected from each other if we are part of a workers' association.

 

#DoItYourself (either we do it or we hi we submit)

  • For Our Labor Rights.
  • For the Fixity of all and all Interims in Fraud of Law.
  • Let's return Democracy to the School.
  • We democratize Curricula.
  • We guarantee critical and emancipatory knowledge to young people.
  • For a Public FP, Quality and universal offer.
  • For the Universalization of Public Education.
  • For the abolition of School Segregation (Concerted Education)

Jul 282023
 

From the works council we want to inform the entire staff of Instituto Grifols that the 27 July 2023 The Human Resources department has been calling colleagues from this department throughout the morning in order to present the objective dismissal. At the moment we are aware of 3 layoffs. The company alleges organizational reasons. We all know that the company is hiring personnel in different areas of the company and has not had the decency to relocate them..

DON’T MISTAKE THEM!!!

The IG works council is totally against any dismissal. Thus:

WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU 28 JULY 8:30 A 10:30 HOURS AT THE DOOR OF THE COMPANY

 

COMPANY COMMITTEE OF INSTITUTO GRIFOLS

Jul 272023
 

LAYOFFS IN THE R&D DEPARTMENT

From the works council we want to inform the entire staff of Instituto Grifols that the 27 July 2023 The Human Resources department has been calling colleagues from this department throughout the morning in order to present the objective dismissal. At the moment we are aware of 3 layoffs. The company alleges organizational reasons. We all know that the company is hiring personnel in different areas of the company and has not had the decency to relocate them..

DON'T MISTAKE THEM!!!

The IG works council is totally against any dismissal. Thus:

WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU 28 JULY 8:30 A 10:30 HOURS AT THE DOOR OF THE COMPANY

 

COMPANY COMMITTEE OF INSTITUTO GRÍFOLS

Jul 192023
 

The Sanctions Section of the Department of Business and Work, has resolved in favor of the subrogated workers of Abertis, financially sanctioning the UTE, with a SEVERE SANCTION of the LISOS Law for breaches of the current Collective Agreement and for denying rights that are considered acquired:

– Days of own affairs year 2021, for your enjoyment during the 2022.
– Christmas lot year 2021.
– Flexible office hours.
– PCF Ticket Restaurante.

Among other things, in the disciplinary file they remind the UTE that: "must fully respect the rights that workers had recognized prior to subrogation, not only because this is recognized in the aforementioned article 44, rather, said right is recognized in numerous court rulings.”

to our knowledge, the UTE has not only breached these rights, but also continues to fail in social aid, as the help studies of employees, Help studies of children of employees, etc. So we will act unionized in defense of our rights.

Regardless of what is communicated, remind you to be prepared in case you finally, the UTE FULFILLS ITS THREAT and when the State Construction Agreement is published, we are passed unilaterally to this one. If they do, they will be breaking the LAW again!, as it seems that is his methodical, and they will have a response from the staff!

DO NOT HELP THEM TO END YOUR RIGHTS!!
IF YOU FIGHT, UP TO YOU!!
CGT UNION SECTION – UTE AP7 VALLÉS

Apr 052023
 

WHY ORGANIZE US IN UNION SECTIONS IN SCHOOLS AND INSTITUTES? FAQs

WHAT IS A UNION SECTION?

Well, something very simple and older than the nana. A Trade Union section is the foundation of the self-organization and collaboration of people at work: it is the stable assembly of the workers of a trade union at the workplace.

Once self-organized, we will have autonomy of action.

Read more

Mar 272023
 

INSPECTION OF THE WORK GIVES US THE REASON AND FORCES CAMBRAY TO DO THE REVISION MEDICINE FOR EDUCATION WORKERS

The affiliates of the Teaching Union Section of the Various Activities Union of Vallès Oriental have asked the Public Administration to require the Department of Education of the Generalitat of Catalonia to carry out the corresponding and normative annual medical check-up Read more

Mar 072023
 

We inform you all that from the CGT union section we are giving our full support to the compañeras affected by the ERE of Grifols S.A..

Every time the negotiating table meets, mobilization is called to put pressure on the company. We inform you that the next mobilization will take place next day 9 March 09:00 a 10:30 in the P10 booth, C/ Palou 6 Vallés walls, Barcelona.

Read more