The World Federation of Trade Unions, the most historic international trade union organisation representing more than 105 million workers working, living and struggling in 133 countries on 5 continents, expresses its internationalist solidarity with the struggle of the workers of Ayesa Advanced Technologies led by the affiliated trade union Alternativa Sindical de Clase (ASC).
The management of the company Ayesa Advanced Technologies has demonstrated throughout its existence that, in its excessive ambition to obtain profits, it does not hesitate to disregard the labour rights of workers. To this end, it has a despotic leadership, legislation in line with its interests and unions such as CCOO and UGT (belonging to the ETUC) characterized by their sensationalism that do not hesitate to betray the working class with their policy of the social pact.
The World Federation of Trade Unions comes to stand in solidarity with the staff of Ayesa Advanced Technologies on the day of strike called by the trade union Alternativa Sindical de Clase (affiliated to the WFTU) for Thursday, November 23, 2023.
We make our demands to reject and oppose the labour policy of the management of the company, which we demand to be dismissed, since it constantly attacks workers with reduced working hours. It imposes a policy of overtime abuse and overexploitation that has serious consequences for one’s own health, as can be seen in the large number of long-term sick leave. It tramples on and even represses the right to reconcile work and family life, dismissing workers while hiring others with identical profiles to reduce labour costs. And it violates the rights of its legal representatives with continuous harassment and sanctions.
In addition, we especially want to express our solidarity with the dismissed colleagues, two of them with almost a quarter of a century of seniority at Ayesa Advanced Technologies, who make clear the inhuman face of a company that was created with public money and that has been badly sold by the Junta de Andalucía, having been snatched from the Andalusian people by governments servile to the bosses and enemies of the working people.
We at the World Federation of Trade Unions are convinced that this determination of the workforce to go on strike will be the only one that can put the brakes on the policies of the bosses. We welcome the strike, we stand in solidarity with it and we encourage the workforce to stop production. It is a source of pride for the WFTU to have among its ranks unions such as the Class Trade Union Alternative with the necessary clairvoyance to decisively confront the policies of the bosses.
