----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris R" <christopher at nodo50.org> To: <a-infos-en at ainfos.ca> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 4:03 PM Subject: (en) Spain, CGT report on General Strike
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> THE GENERAL STRIKE WOULD HAVE FAILED WITHOUT THE PARTICIPATION OF THE CGT:
> 20% of workers followed the call of the CGT for the Strike.
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> The success of the 20th June General Strike was due, in great part, to the
> separate and different call made by CGT, thanks to the fundamental
> mobilisation of thousands of militants of this Syndical Organisation, both
> in pickets and in demonstrations.
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> The appraisal made by CGT of the following of the General Strike is 93% in
> industry and 84% on average in other sectors. At least 20% of the workers
> who followed the Strike did so as a result of the Call and information
> carried out by the CGT.
> Proof of this are the dozens of demonstrations carried out throughout the
> State by CGT, together with other union organisations and social movements.
> The Calls were carried out separately from the majority Unions. In all, the
> CGT mobilised more than 60.000 persons during the Strike.
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> It should be pointed out that the CGT called the General Strike, not only
> against the Unemployment Protection Reform, but also for many other reasons
> as important as opposing the Pensions Pact, the Interconfederal Pacts, the
> Foreigners' Law, the successive Labour Reforms,. and, fundamentally, against
> the repressive attitude of a Government that yesterday, in an exercise of
> cynicism and power, tried to ignore the notable success of the General
> Strike despite the repressive devices used to thwart it.
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> Translated by Apoyo Mutuo
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> Original Spanish version
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