Wednesday, 6 October 2010

General Strike in Spain, the big masquerade.

The call from the two main Spanish sindicates for a General Strike on this last September 29th resulted in a big fiasco for these two state budget parasites organizations: UGT and CCOO.
With some 2 million affiliates out of some 19 million active workers they claim to represent the interests of Spanish workers.
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This "general" strike was followed and supported by less than 10 per cent among civil servants in the administration and almost ignored by all the small and medium size companies and their employees specially those involved in the services activity. The only real impact was in the industrial sector where the so called "information pickets" could easily "convince" their colleagues of the need to second this strike.
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In Madrid all shops were opened and they only shut when these pickets showed up to immediately re-open when the pickets moved away.
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The bus transport in Madrid was sabotaged early in the morning in the garages but once the pickets were forced not to "inform" so intensively buses operated as usual as so did the subway all day long.
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In Barcelona it was rather different. The anti-system elements that the Catalan regional government has pampered for so many years (the guy in charge of the police there is an anti-system communist-ecologist himself and so is the elder son of the President Montilla) roamed the streets of downtown Barcelona defying police and setting urban cashiers and waste bins in fire, ending in a police car on fire.
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Power comsumption diminished only by some 11% compared to what it was expected if the strike would have not taken place (in other general strikes it was over 20% less) and people all accross the country showed their contempt for these trade unionists that so "kindly" asked them to follow their slogans.
Spain has some real 5 million unemployed persons, this accounts for 21% of the active population and is over twice the average of the European Union.
When Mr. Zapatero came to power back in 2004 we had roughly 10% of unemployment rate and an state budget surplus. during these last 6 years Mr Zapatero´s policies have put Spain to the brim of ruin and bankruptcy...With the approval of the two main sindicates!!!
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When forced by the European Union, the USA and China (Chinese Prime Minister and President Obama called President Zapatero almost the same day in May to tell him that he either shifted his economic policy and changed or he would be in serious trouble) Mr. Zapatero announced, some 5 months ago, budget and salary (for the administration workers) cuts. This change of policy has finally triggered this strike when the two sindicates exploded with calculated rage.
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A very well calculated rage we must say because the strike was against the entrepreneurs and the Popular Party more than against Mr. Zapatero who they know is not acting on his on will but remotely directed by Brussels and Washington.
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It is really odd and striking (yes this word goes realy well in here!) that these trade unions which supported Zapatero on his way to the present ruinous situation and that said nothing when Zapatero denied the very existence of an upcoming crisis two years ago or when the unemployment rate grew rapidly due to that policy that they supported and are therefore co-responsible of the present situation, have called for a general strike against the budget cuts that Spain has had to implement.
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It is as if someone who has been trying to put a fire out by pouring gasoline goes completely crazy when the chief fireman decides to give it a chance to using water...
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This sindicates get hundreds of million in state and regional grants, have thousands of wht they call liberates (basically they get paid and do not work so as to suppousedly have time to look after their colleagues labor problems), earn fortunes by monopolize the training courses that unemployed people do and that are useless.
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They have behaved like leeches always sucking from the state budget and always willing to plunder tax payers and they are still doing that. They have put on stage a soft strike so as not to offend too much Mr. Zapatero for they are very well awared of the fact that they cannot exist on their own strength funding their expenses only from their affiliates dues.
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The main Trade Union leaders earn fortunes and have exquisite tastes when choosing their holidays or restaurants and the mere idea of having to work scares them to death.
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This last sunday shortly after this masquerade strike (Oct. 3rd) newspaper "El País" has published a poll showing almost 15 points of difference between PP (Popular Party) and PSOE (Socialist Party): 43% versus 28%. El País is by the way a traditional ally to the PSOE.
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Somehow people is fed up with all the lies Zapatero keeps repeating and this strike that was not intended to impact in the President´s image too much devastated his already weak position.
Stay tuned for Zapatero´s next moves, he is now desperate and he is very dangerous. Do not forget what happened shortly before he came to power in 2004...

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