Tiye Laborers Union ine chinangwa chikuru: kuronga muindasitiri yekuvaka dzimba dzakawanda dzisiri dzemubatanidzwa. Kutanga mushandirapamwe mubatanidzwa wakahaya vagari venzvimbo mbiri kumahombekombe ekumabvazuva. Vese vari vaviri vari mukudyidzana nenzvimbo dzevashandi dzine nhengo dzevashandi vemazuva ese uye vashandi vekuvaka pekugara vanotambira mari shoma.
Mibatanidzwa mitsva, Yemunharaunda 55 kuchamhembe nepakati New Jersey uye Local 10 mudhorobha reNew York City, inosanganisira vazhinji vanobva kuSouth neCentral America. Kudyidzana uku nenzvimbo dzevashandi kwakangoerekana kwaitika pakati pevarongi vebasa rezuva, vaneta nekutarisana nevasina kutendeseka vasiri vemubatanidzwa vekuvaka zvivakwa zvekugara vari voga, uye Vashandi, avo vanga vachida kuwana nzvimbo muindasitiri - inofungidzirwa kuti inodarika makumi mapfumbamwe muzana misika yekuvaka yekugara haisi yemubatanidzwa.
Nekudaro, hurongwa hwevagari venzvimbo iyi hwekukunda makondirakiti nekupa vashandi vanochinjika vakadzidziswa mabasa ese, pamutengo wemadhora gumi nerimwe paawa isingasviki muyero weVashandi wenguva dzose, vanogona kukanganisa minhenga pakati pemamwe masangano evashandi vekuvaka - kunyangwe ivo vakasiya kare. musika wekugara kune wakaderera-muhoro, vasiri vemubatanidzwa makondirakiti.
Vagari vatsva, muchidimbu, vanoita chibvumirano chakaitwa muna 2006 pakati peNational Day Labor Organising Network (NDLON) nesangano remubatanidzwa. AFL-CIO yakabvumira vashandi veNDLON vanobatana navo kuti vabatane nekanzuru yevashandi uye nhaurirano pakati peNDLON neChange to Win masangano akatungamira varongi kuVashandi.
2009 NYC May Day demo-photo by Mamita Mala |
Local 55 chikamu chimwe cheVashandi uye zvikamu zviviri zvevashandi. Inosanganisira New Labor, nzvimbo yevashandi ine mahofisi muNew Brunswick, Lakewood, uye munguva pfupi, Newark, pamwe neCasa Freehold muFreehold, New Jersey. Hector Fuentes, maneja webhizinesi renzvimbo iyi, akati vanobatana neNDLON vakawana kuvimba kwevashandi vekuvaka, izvo zvichabatsira veko kupfuudza kusahadzika kwevashandi vanobva kune dzimwe nyika vakambosangana nematambudziko nemasangano kana kuvharirwa kunze.
Marien Casillas Pabellon, director director weNew Labor, akati nzvimbo yake yakatarisana nedambudziko rinowanikwa munzvimbo dzevashandi: rakawanda rebasa ravo "kudzimisa moto" kutenderedza mihoro yakabiwa uye kutyora hutano nekuchengetedzeka. Kuwedzera kubudirira kwenzvimbo dzinorwa nevashandirwi vakatsauka, ndipo pavanowedzera kufona uye kutetepa kwavanoita. Pabellon akati Local 55 ichaita kuti vashandi vataurirane kuti vawane mihoro iri nani nemamiriro ezvinhu pane kugara vachitamba dziviriro kuti vashandirwi vabhadhare muhoro wepasi.
Vashandi vari kugadzirisa chivakwa muNewark semuzinda wemubatanidzwa. Parizvino, mubatanidzwa wedunhu uri kutungamira mari kune vagari vatsva, asi varongi vanotarisira kuzozvimiririra mune zvemari kana vangovaka nhengo.
Joint Ownership & Flexibility
Tmasangano emubatanidzwa nevashandi aifanira kutsvaga nzira yekushanda pamwe chete inogadzirisa zvinonetsa zvinowanzoitika panguva yezvirongwa zvakabatana. "Mashandiro anoita masangano mukati, zvakasiyana zvakanyanya pane zvisina purofiti - mutsauko wetsika," akadaro Nadia Marin-Molina weWorkplace Project paLong Island.
Vanoronga mizinda yevashandi vanoda kuona kuti vakaenzana nevashandi vane zviwanikwa zviri nani. Local 10's executive board inoumbwa neLabourers reps pamwe nevashandi vanobva kuWorkplace Project, El Centro del Inmigrantes yeStaten Island, Latin American Workers Project, uye mumiriri wenyika weNDLON. Iyo New Jersey yemuno e-board yakamiswa zvakafanana.
Nzvimbo yeNew Jersey ichavawo nenhengo itsva kubva kuchirongwa cheLabourers kudzidzisa vasingashandi kana vasina basa revashandi veNewark mukugadzirisa mamiriro ekunze (ona Labor Notes, Chikunguru 2009). Vanosvika zana inhengo izvozvi, asi nzvimbo iyi ichakura mushure mechibvumirano chakaitwa nesangano remakontrakta ekugara iro richapinza vashandi zana nemakumi manomwe nevashanu. Kuwanda uku, Fuentes akadaro, "kuchatanga kuumba nzvimbo."
Local 10 muNew York iri kutarisana neizvo Marin-Molina anodana vatengesi '"huku inopesana nedambudziko rezai." Kuti iwane nhengo munharaunda, inoda kuwana vashandirwi vanoda kubhadhara mari yemubatanidzwa. Varongi vanoti kuputika kwemusika wedzimba kwakakanganisa basa ravo, asi Fuentes anoti vari kudzidzisa vashandi kuitira kuti "kana mabasa adzoka, tive nevanhu."
Blurring The Lines
Amaererano naFuentes, Vashandi mukuvaka kwekutengesa vanoita madhora makumi maviri nepfumbamwe paawa nemabhenefiti anofungidzirwa pamadhora gumi nemapfumbamwe paawa, nepo Vashandi vatsva mukuvaka kwekugara vachiwana madhora gumi nemasere nemadhora mashanu mumabhenefiti. Vagari venzvimbo iyi vane tarisiro yekunyengerera makondirakiti kuti vacherechedze mubatanidzwa nekupedzisira kudzidzisa nhengo dzavo pane zvimwe zvekuvaka imba, zvichipa vashandirwi kusandunuka kusingawanikwe kune dzimwe nzvimbo dzekuvaka, Fuentes akadaro.
Chero zano rekuronga kwevashandirwi kungangomutsa ropa rakaipa pakati pemasangano evashandi vekuvaka, ayo anokurumidza kudzivirira masimba uye miganhu yehunyanzvi. Fuentes akati mamwe mabhizimusi "akatarisana nematambudziko mazhinji nekusada kana kukwanisa kudzikisa mitengo yavo yekutengeserana kuita pekugara." Vavezi chete ndivo vataura nezve nhengo itsva kuronga mukuvaka kwekugara. Vashandi vaviri vezvokutengeserana vakati apo Vashandi vakaenda kune Vavezi nezvekubatanidza kuedza, pfungwa yekuronga vanoenda kune dzimwe nyika haina kugamuchirwa zvakanaka.
VaCarpenters, vakasiya zvose AFL-CIO uye Change to Win, vakaedza kumadziro-kumadziro kuronga mukuvaka kwekutengeserana, vakatanga mhirizhonga, vakaderedza mihoro, uye vakapwanya kupikisa kwemukati mukuedza. Vakatsiurwa pagungano reAFL-CIO rekudonha uku uko mubatanidzwa wakafunga kutanga komiti yekuronga yevezi mukupindura.
Fuentes akati vashandi vatsva vemuno vakasiyana. Havasi kupamba kana kuyambuka mitsara yekutengeserana nekuti mamwe masangano haadi kana kutadza kuronga vashandi vekugara vanobva kune dzimwe nyika.
New Jersey Vashandi |
Kuvapo kwemubatanidzwa mukuvaka kwekugara kwadzikira zvakanyanya kubva pakatanga Hondo Yenyika II kuvaka. Muma1950 nema1960, density yaifungidzirwa yakakwira se50 muzana. Mike Rabourn, muongorori weNortheast Council of Carpenters uye munyori weongororo ya2008 yemubatanidzwa mukuvaka kwekugara, akati mibatanidzwa ine "shoma" kuvapo mazuva ano. Mubatanidzwa wake wedunhu unoti 5 muzana chete.
Rabourn akati kushaikwa kwesimba remubatanidzwa munzvimbo dzekugara yanga iri "nzou mukamuri" yekuvaka masangano evashandi, kunyanya makore gumi aya apo inodarika hafu yemari yekuvaka yaive mudzimba. Asi nekuvaka masangano evashandi ari kurwira kubata mutsetse mumusika wekuvaka wepasi, kutanga chirongwa chitsva chekuronga hachisi chinhu chakakosha kune vazhinji.
Vatauriri kubva kumasangano akawanda evashandi vezvivakwa vakaramba kutaura pamusoro pekuedza kweVashandi, mumwe kubva kuIBEW achifanotaura "kunetsana kwakawanda." Rabourn akadzikisira kusawirirana kungangoitika, achiratidza kuti mitsara yekutonga haina kujeka nekuti indasitiri yanga isiri mubatanidzwa kwenguva yakareba. Kana vashandi vakabudirira, akadaro, zvinogona kushandura pfungwa dzemamwe masangano pamusoro pezvinogoneka zvokurudzira kuedza kutsva kuronga. "Zvakaoma kufanotaura kuti vanhu vemubatanidzwa vangaite sei," Rabourn akadaro, "asi kana sangano rimwe richizoisa zviwanikwa kuronga chikamu icho pasina mumwe munhu acharonga, madziro-kumadziro zvine musoro."
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Tiffany Ten Eyck mutori wenhau weDetroit uye muratidziri wevashandi anonyora nezvenyaya dzebasa uye dzepabasa. Ten Eyck ari pabasa pa Labor Notes.