----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Pollak" <mpollak at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 2:28 AM Subject: Re: Brazil Sends Gasoline at Venezuelan's Request
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> On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 Doug Henwood wrote:
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> > Cue to Nathan to tell us how this is strike-breaking.
>
> I'm not sure what's going on at the oil installations can be classified as
> a strike in the sense in which you could have strike breaking. Certainly
> in other places it's a strike, and the leadership of the main
> confederation of unions is part of the opposition. And there is a
> tradition of calling caceroleros and similar kind of demonstrations
> strikes. But at the oil company, as far as I understand it, the union of
> oil workers, Fedepetrol, is against the shutdown; it's the professional
> management association, the "People of Petroleum," that is in favor of it.
> That's not a strike, that's a lockout. So breaking it would have to be
> counted as aiding the workers, no?
>
> Michael