A-Infos (en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #268 - Unionism: Union unit against the airport (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

The union collective against the airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes was born at the end of 
last year. Unions CGT, Solidaires and CNT united against the project of airport, for the 
maintenance of the employment but also in solidarity with the zadists. ---- The union 
collective against the airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes (NDDL) regroups the departmental 
union Solidaires 44, the CNT 44, the CGT AGO (the interprofessional union of the site of 
the current Nantes Atlantique airport) The CGT of the CGT of Vinci, the CGT 
Labor-Employment-Vocational Training 44, the CGT CDC (Caisse des Depots et Consignations), 
the CGT of the Daumezon hospital center and the CGT union members opposite the airport, 
agglomerating two to three Cents unionized around a few dozen activists.

The union collective resulted from the convergence of three different approaches: the AGO 
CGT union at the Nantes Atlantique airport site which refused to transfer their place of 
work more than 30 km from their current workplace; Militants CGT having been spearheading 
the position of the departmental union CGT in favor of maintaining the current airport of 
Nantes; The unions Solidaires 44 and the CNT 44 acquired from the start in combat against 
the airport project. These militants have rubbed shoulders with Zadists during the 
blocking operations during the conflict against the labor law.

Faced with the risk of eviction of the inhabitants of the site of NDDL the need to regroup 
became evident. In connection with a part of the Zadists, the various components began to 
debate. With a main perspective: to organize the most massive trade union mobilization 
possible in the event of an expulsion attempt.

8,300 jobs at stake

In his first public speech, broadcast on November 30, the group said that the project led 
by Vinci "project against employment": the new airport would be "highly automated, which 
clearly means that the number of jobs The site will be much lower than it is on the 
current airport of Nantes-Atlantique ". The balance sheet of the recovery by early 2011 
Vinci Concession Nantes Atlantique Airport is clear: "Since working conditions in Nantes 
Atlantique airport will continue to deteriorate for lack of investment in the platform 
Airport ". The group concludes that "this disastrous project is a laboratory of the Labour 
Law. "

Recalling that jobs in the Loire Atlantique are almost twice as numerous in the 
north-Loire as in the south-Loire and that a transfer from the airport to 
Notre-Dame-des-Landes would reinforce this imbalance, denounces the prospect of 
multiplication Of the resulting traffic jams, in particular at the Cheviré bridge on the 
Loire, for employees at the airport site and for all inhabitants and inhabitants of the 
Nantes conurbation. Finally, that weigh 700 temporary jobs created for the realization of 
the site, facing the "socio-economic fabric of over 70 SME threatened with extinction in 
the event of transfer from the airport at Notre-Dame-des-Landes» about 8 300 jobs?

Facilitated by the links forged during the conflict to work on legislation, collective 
affirms its solidarity with the zadistes: "Defending the ZAD, so for us also support an 
emancipatory experience of capitalism and market relations ( ...). The inhabitants of the 
ZAD who live the experience of a world more human, freer, therefore have all our 
solidarity, because this world of exploitation and alienation that they fight is also the 
one Against which we struggle daily. "

The labor collective and wants to "revive the historical tradition of struggle in 
Loire-Atlantique, the alliance between working class people of the countryside and the 
city." More prosaically, Buddy invited 44 trade unionists of the Collective for a meal on 
Sunday, January 8 ZAD to "provoke a meeting between union members and farmers and have a 
good time together." Solidarity is also built this way and the group with the other 
components of the movement against the airport intends to oppose "resolutely to any 
attempts of evictions or starting work."

Jacques Dubart (AL Nantes)

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