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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2021 3:09 pm
Capitalist slavery and political illiteracy
11/15/2021
Messages from Nizhny Novgorod workers
In recent days, the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Russian United Labor Front has received a number of messages from employees from various enterprises and institutions of the city. The messages contain typical complaints. These are complaints about enslaving working conditions , carried out in one case through an apprenticeship agreement, in others - through violation of the work schedule, excess of working hours using the labor of elderly pensioners receiving meager pensions.
These facts clearly indicate precisely this - enslaving - nature of labor under capitalism. Coercion to such work is achieved without violence, in an economic way. In each case, circumstances were used against the employee that he, by and large, had no way to overcome, there were no other options for resolving the situation by the employee. Everything, as they say, is a dead end. As a result, hopeless despair, even fatal in one example.
But the authors of this article believe that, among other things, the blame for these troubles is the political illiteracy of the workers themselves, who find themselves in such situations. Which, in principle, is fixable. It is only necessary to begin with putting everything in its place and looking at things from the point of view of the politics of the working class. So we will help in this, and at the same time we will conduct an educational program on labor rights. This is useful, first of all, for young people - “children of far from advanced parents” , whose consciousness in many respects is not yet so polluted with faith in elections or, in general, with disbelief in anything and anyone (in contrast to their non-advanced ancestors).
Economic coercion is voluntary consent to slavery conditions
So, case 1. A 19-year-old young man got hooked. And this is not the only case at the eminent plant "Krasnoe Sormovo" , where they are lured through the website of vacancies to work under an apprenticeship agreement .
How does this happen? Just. For job vacancies posted on websites, work experience is the most common requirement put forward by "employers". But where will the experience come from among graduates of educational institutions, who often do not even have a work book? In our time of capitalism? Here are young people, backed against the wall by the situation on the labor market, and agree to gain experience on the terms of the employer - through the conclusion of an apprenticeship agreement. The apprenticeship agreement gives the right, after completing training at the factory, to work according to the qualifications acquired in this way. But in return, an employment contract is concluded, as a rule, with the lowest salaries and on the worst conditions. In our example, a salary of 12 350 rubles was offered. - the minimum allowable in 2019. And in case of refusal to conclude such a contract for a period of 2 years, in accordance with the student contract, the student must return the amount spent on training! That is, the student will have to be fired and ripped off a healthy amount. In our example - 73 746 rubles.
Our young acquaintance took this bait. But at the end of 2 months of training as a ship pipeline engineer, he suddenly "sharply found out" what was the matter, and turned to us with a complaint allegedly "of illegal actions." Well, when in the end he also found out that everything was in accordance with the law, he just muttered: "Well, cattle!" Who can argue? Only you, comrade, forgive me for being straightforward, have not quite matured to the required level.
Cunningly thought up? Yes, everything is fine, nothing new. "Truncated by the law":
First, before signing contracts, including all sorts of apprenticeship and labor contracts, you need to read and comprehend them. And if something incomprehensible raises doubts - do not rush, but seek advice. Where to? This is another problem. But the signing should be postponed until the essence is clarified.
Secondly, you need to immediately, it's time to run, to change consciousness. Realize that bonded conditions can be completely legal. The Labor Code of the Russian Federation is a law adopted by the capitalists in the interests of the capitalists. His - TK - must be studied, because this is a "serial" cooler than "Squid Games". This is a set of rules according to which you will play squid, perhaps, for the rest of your adult life.
And thirdly , in the Soviet Union, there was a state-organized distribution of graduates of educational institutions by enterprises with the provision of housing (at least in a hostel) and with guaranteed work in their specialty, with advanced training at the expense of the state and with an increase in salary for trained, and therefore qualified, to the worker. This discovery should lead to the realization that you are living in bestial conditions, building private property, building capitalism, which has not existed since yesterday, but already 30 years - since the destruction of the Soviet Union.
The workers froze: Father Oleg blesses the ship's foundation. Plant "Krasnoe Sormovo", 21st century.
Case 2. A pensioner who turned to us at the age of 68 was forced to go to work as a security guard at a school. Risk your life. And his risk is connected not so much with the likelihood of running into a "shooter" and accept a martyr's death, but with a much greater probability of accepting a death that is not so heroic - getting a stroke. After all, at work it is not blood sugar that needs to be regulated, and it is not the pressure "over 200" that needs to be controlled and brought down. And without leaving your post during the entire watch, even for a second, measure the temperature of everyone entering the school, without being distracted by various toilets and snacks. CCTV cameras record everything, a step to the right and left is a reason for denouncing and enforcing the last Chinese warning from the director.
So why, in his old age, our elderly comrade decided to arrange such a cheerful life for himself? Obviously, not so that, following the president's statement about increasing life expectancy in the Russian Federation, to lead the lifestyle of a working pensioner, officially promoted as "healthy". The reason is the amount of the pension - 12,000 rubles, which is not enough for a mere trifle ... - payment of the debt for major repairs - 30,000 rubles.
What is bondage again ?
Debt slavery - a person's loss of freedom for debt
The fact is that guards, watchmen and persons of similar professions are set work schedules one day after two, which significantly increases the working time, reducing the time of weekly and other rest. This also harms the human body, leading to illness and premature death. The cannibalistic greed of employers is aimed only at extracting maximum profit. The health and life of people is not a value for them. And for such a schedule, they offer the same minimum payment, 12 thousand rubles. with a ponytail. Apparently, wherever vacancies are designed for people who have fallen into debt or other bondage, 12,000 rubles is considered the limit of generosity? Although, if you look at it, then "a day or two" is a mode with overtime work, in contrast to a "day or three". And the "minimum wage" for working in excess of normal working hours is a violation of the law.
Abbreviated - minimum wage
How can our pensioner improve his affairs? To help him, all of us, still young workers, need to realize the following. Workers in Russia have been turned into "wage slaves" forced to be hired on an employer basis. This happens according to the law, "freely." In the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the right to work is essentially absent. The right to work is cleverly presented as “the right to freely dispose of one's ability to work,” which allows the employer to set at his own discretion the remuneration of workers. Not a decent wage, but the one that he considers necessary, caring only about his own profit. This is the essence of capitalism.
Case 3. A young man writes to us:
“My mother, ... Lyubov Alekseevna, 68 years old, worked as a nurse at Fest-Pharm JSC, a private clinic, Nizhny Novgorod. For the entire period of her work in this structure, her rights provided for by the Labor Code of the Russian Federation were grossly violated. Schedule for employment is used to amore working hours than provided for by the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. The time of weekly and other rest was not observed, it was reduced by malice. My mother's questions were rudely answered with a demand for her dismissal, about which she constantly cried in my presence. Due to constant overwork and overwork, she was on sick leave, and on 05/22/2021, after several weeks of heat, she died during a work shift after being taken to the 31st hospital with a diagnosis of a heart attack. The scheduling of the work was done by the hostess sister, whose last name I do not know. I ask you to help me take measures to recognize my mother as killed at work, as well as to bring to justice those responsible for her death. "
This is the price of "freedom" under capitalism . Capitalism kills, having previously "worn out in heavy battles."
But only the realization of this conclusion will be the way to eliminate their political illiteracy for all who work with their own hands. And the illiterate will continue to be exploited.
The best slave is the one who considers himself "free"
Movement "Labor Nizhny Novgorod", "Russian United Labor Front"
https://www.rotfront.su/kapitalistiches ... -politich/
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11/15/2021
Messages from Nizhny Novgorod workers
In recent days, the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Russian United Labor Front has received a number of messages from employees from various enterprises and institutions of the city. The messages contain typical complaints. These are complaints about enslaving working conditions , carried out in one case through an apprenticeship agreement, in others - through violation of the work schedule, excess of working hours using the labor of elderly pensioners receiving meager pensions.
These facts clearly indicate precisely this - enslaving - nature of labor under capitalism. Coercion to such work is achieved without violence, in an economic way. In each case, circumstances were used against the employee that he, by and large, had no way to overcome, there were no other options for resolving the situation by the employee. Everything, as they say, is a dead end. As a result, hopeless despair, even fatal in one example.
But the authors of this article believe that, among other things, the blame for these troubles is the political illiteracy of the workers themselves, who find themselves in such situations. Which, in principle, is fixable. It is only necessary to begin with putting everything in its place and looking at things from the point of view of the politics of the working class. So we will help in this, and at the same time we will conduct an educational program on labor rights. This is useful, first of all, for young people - “children of far from advanced parents” , whose consciousness in many respects is not yet so polluted with faith in elections or, in general, with disbelief in anything and anyone (in contrast to their non-advanced ancestors).
Economic coercion is voluntary consent to slavery conditions
So, case 1. A 19-year-old young man got hooked. And this is not the only case at the eminent plant "Krasnoe Sormovo" , where they are lured through the website of vacancies to work under an apprenticeship agreement .
How does this happen? Just. For job vacancies posted on websites, work experience is the most common requirement put forward by "employers". But where will the experience come from among graduates of educational institutions, who often do not even have a work book? In our time of capitalism? Here are young people, backed against the wall by the situation on the labor market, and agree to gain experience on the terms of the employer - through the conclusion of an apprenticeship agreement. The apprenticeship agreement gives the right, after completing training at the factory, to work according to the qualifications acquired in this way. But in return, an employment contract is concluded, as a rule, with the lowest salaries and on the worst conditions. In our example, a salary of 12 350 rubles was offered. - the minimum allowable in 2019. And in case of refusal to conclude such a contract for a period of 2 years, in accordance with the student contract, the student must return the amount spent on training! That is, the student will have to be fired and ripped off a healthy amount. In our example - 73 746 rubles.
Our young acquaintance took this bait. But at the end of 2 months of training as a ship pipeline engineer, he suddenly "sharply found out" what was the matter, and turned to us with a complaint allegedly "of illegal actions." Well, when in the end he also found out that everything was in accordance with the law, he just muttered: "Well, cattle!" Who can argue? Only you, comrade, forgive me for being straightforward, have not quite matured to the required level.
Cunningly thought up? Yes, everything is fine, nothing new. "Truncated by the law":
How to fix the matter? How can you help an employee here? We can and should congratulate him on the school of working life, on the invaluable experience he has acquired:Labor Code of the Russian Federation Article 207. The rights and obligations of students at the end of the apprenticeship
If the apprentice does not start work at the end of the apprenticeship, he, at the request of the employer, returns to him the scholarship received during the apprenticeship, as well as reimburses other expenses incurred by the employer in connection with the apprenticeship.
First, before signing contracts, including all sorts of apprenticeship and labor contracts, you need to read and comprehend them. And if something incomprehensible raises doubts - do not rush, but seek advice. Where to? This is another problem. But the signing should be postponed until the essence is clarified.
Secondly, you need to immediately, it's time to run, to change consciousness. Realize that bonded conditions can be completely legal. The Labor Code of the Russian Federation is a law adopted by the capitalists in the interests of the capitalists. His - TK - must be studied, because this is a "serial" cooler than "Squid Games". This is a set of rules according to which you will play squid, perhaps, for the rest of your adult life.
And thirdly , in the Soviet Union, there was a state-organized distribution of graduates of educational institutions by enterprises with the provision of housing (at least in a hostel) and with guaranteed work in their specialty, with advanced training at the expense of the state and with an increase in salary for trained, and therefore qualified, to the worker. This discovery should lead to the realization that you are living in bestial conditions, building private property, building capitalism, which has not existed since yesterday, but already 30 years - since the destruction of the Soviet Union.
The workers froze: Father Oleg blesses the ship's foundation. Plant "Krasnoe Sormovo", 21st century.
Case 2. A pensioner who turned to us at the age of 68 was forced to go to work as a security guard at a school. Risk your life. And his risk is connected not so much with the likelihood of running into a "shooter" and accept a martyr's death, but with a much greater probability of accepting a death that is not so heroic - getting a stroke. After all, at work it is not blood sugar that needs to be regulated, and it is not the pressure "over 200" that needs to be controlled and brought down. And without leaving your post during the entire watch, even for a second, measure the temperature of everyone entering the school, without being distracted by various toilets and snacks. CCTV cameras record everything, a step to the right and left is a reason for denouncing and enforcing the last Chinese warning from the director.
So why, in his old age, our elderly comrade decided to arrange such a cheerful life for himself? Obviously, not so that, following the president's statement about increasing life expectancy in the Russian Federation, to lead the lifestyle of a working pensioner, officially promoted as "healthy". The reason is the amount of the pension - 12,000 rubles, which is not enough for a mere trifle ... - payment of the debt for major repairs - 30,000 rubles.
What is bondage again ?
Debt slavery - a person's loss of freedom for debt
The fact is that guards, watchmen and persons of similar professions are set work schedules one day after two, which significantly increases the working time, reducing the time of weekly and other rest. This also harms the human body, leading to illness and premature death. The cannibalistic greed of employers is aimed only at extracting maximum profit. The health and life of people is not a value for them. And for such a schedule, they offer the same minimum payment, 12 thousand rubles. with a ponytail. Apparently, wherever vacancies are designed for people who have fallen into debt or other bondage, 12,000 rubles is considered the limit of generosity? Although, if you look at it, then "a day or two" is a mode with overtime work, in contrast to a "day or three". And the "minimum wage" for working in excess of normal working hours is a violation of the law.
Abbreviated - minimum wage
How can our pensioner improve his affairs? To help him, all of us, still young workers, need to realize the following. Workers in Russia have been turned into "wage slaves" forced to be hired on an employer basis. This happens according to the law, "freely." In the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the right to work is essentially absent. The right to work is cleverly presented as “the right to freely dispose of one's ability to work,” which allows the employer to set at his own discretion the remuneration of workers. Not a decent wage, but the one that he considers necessary, caring only about his own profit. This is the essence of capitalism.
Case 3. A young man writes to us:
“My mother, ... Lyubov Alekseevna, 68 years old, worked as a nurse at Fest-Pharm JSC, a private clinic, Nizhny Novgorod. For the entire period of her work in this structure, her rights provided for by the Labor Code of the Russian Federation were grossly violated. Schedule for employment is used to amore working hours than provided for by the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. The time of weekly and other rest was not observed, it was reduced by malice. My mother's questions were rudely answered with a demand for her dismissal, about which she constantly cried in my presence. Due to constant overwork and overwork, she was on sick leave, and on 05/22/2021, after several weeks of heat, she died during a work shift after being taken to the 31st hospital with a diagnosis of a heart attack. The scheduling of the work was done by the hostess sister, whose last name I do not know. I ask you to help me take measures to recognize my mother as killed at work, as well as to bring to justice those responsible for her death. "
This is the price of "freedom" under capitalism . Capitalism kills, having previously "worn out in heavy battles."
But only the realization of this conclusion will be the way to eliminate their political illiteracy for all who work with their own hands. And the illiterate will continue to be exploited.
The best slave is the one who considers himself "free"
Movement "Labor Nizhny Novgorod", "Russian United Labor Front"
https://www.rotfront.su/kapitalistiches ... -politich/
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