English subtitles for clip: File:Reasons to support the postal workers' strike.ogv

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Hi comrades, friends, co-workers,

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today's the 80th day of unlimited strike

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for the postal workers of our area.

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80 days of non-stop strike, 150 postal workers.

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You've got to realize that it's a huge rate,

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it's actually between 15 and 20% of postal workers

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of the area, on unlimited strike.

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The starting point was to refuse my firing

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and to demand my reintegration.

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The demands broadened to working conditions

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and broadened to the issue of job destructions.

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You should know that La Poste
destroyed 100,000 jobs over 10 years.

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We refuse casualization,
the multiplication of temp work in all our offices.

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But behind that, what are we defending?

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We're defending our trade,

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a vision of what public service is,

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we're actually defending human relationships.

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What kind of society, of work do we want to build?

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Actually today, La Poste wants to turn us into

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people who are voided of their humanity,

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who don't have time for themselves,

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who don't have time for others.

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Meaning for us not to be able
to build a community anymore.

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The only thing they want is
to turn us into distributing machines,

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mail distribution machines,

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paper distribution machines,

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distributing without rhyme or reason,

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handing out baguettes or
carrying dirty laundry to the dry-cleaner's,

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without any logic to it, handling packages too,

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just crushing us under the load,

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a workload that doesn't allow us anymore

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to practice our trade in a way

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that's not subjected to the law of profit

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but in the aim of building our communities,

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being rooted and linked to a neighbourhood.

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How many postal workers do we meet today,

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who are not linked to a community anymore?

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Where there's constant turn-over,

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and those links,
the knowledge of the neighbourhood

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just completely disappear.

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All that for poverty wages

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and in all weather conditions,
come rain, snow or wind.

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So it's very important for our strike to win,

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it's possible today to show
that a victory of the local postal workers

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can embolden every other postal worker

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into believing that they can win,

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to defend the vision we have of our trade,

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to defend our working conditions,

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to oppose anti-union repression.

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And it's also about defending co-workers who fight

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and make links with every other industry

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and fronts of struggles.

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So, it's very important,

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our paychecks come in the 20th of the month.

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Last month we had 150 0€ paychecks,

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they want to starve us and make us suffer

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to make us go back to work,
it's a scorched-earth policy.

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Let's show them that solidarity from below,

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from all the fronts of struggle,

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that workers' solidarity will be stronger

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than repression and scorched-earth policy.

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We're counting on you!