-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [syndicalists] more Argentine news Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:30:35 -0400 From: David Christian <dckomatlcom.net at mindspring.com> Reply-To: syndicalists at anarchosyndicalism.org To: syndicalists at anarchosyndicalism.org
Wool Coop workers defend raw material http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2002/09/47885.php
Lavalana coop is organized by workers who have won legal rights to the premises and machinery of their plant, which washes and processes raw wool. The plant had been abandoned by the owners after failing to negotiate an acceptable payment plan with the worker, who have guarded it for eight months..
The Prosector, Carlos Hassan, decided that the law did not refer to raw materials and ordered the police to seize 50 truck loads of wool and hand them over to the former capitalist owner of the company. Hassan is best known for ordering a brutal eviction of a three hundred family shanty-town three months ago.
The plant was raided the morning of Sept. 3rd by 200 heavily armed police, some of whom were recognized as having taken part in the fatal repression of the march of unemployed workers at Puente Pueyrredón.
For once, the good guys won. Workers approaching the plant demanded entrance as the new legal owners which lead to a standoff. As hundreds of workers from other factories, neighborhood assemblies and socialist parties blocked the neighborhood to prevent the trucks from leaving, Lavalana workers negotiated with the authorities, who first said the wool would be carried to a "neutral" location until the law could be "clarified" It was soon obvious that this was a ploy, as the warehouse proposed was the property of the former owner. by now, having entered the plant successfully, the workers demanded custody of the wool, stating that they would refrain from processing it until the legal technicalities could be figured out
Finally, the mayor of Avellaneda, where the factory is located, ended the standoff by agreeing to the workers demands. Pictures of the standoff http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2002/09/47833.php
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