We will vote from March 3 to 5, 2015 in all schools for the renewal of the RSUOn the same days, all sectors of public employment will be involved in voting. This major democratic event would be enough in itself to dispel many of the platitudes often uttered about the role and representativeness of unions.
The RSU elections are an event of great significance and value, a precious opportunity for the union to strengthen its widespread and capillary presence in the workplace; but it is above all the willingness of many workers to directly assume roles of representation and bargaining that makes it a moment of authentic and participatory democracy.
The campaign to renew the RSU (union structure) is launching amid a mobilization within the industry, demanding proper attention from a policy that is generous with words but short on action. The attempt to curtail the scope and prerogatives of union action is becoming more evident and insidious every day. The demand for legislative intervention in staff careers, while the freeze on contracts that have been stalled for more than six years, is the most striking example of this.
With the vote for the renewal of the RSU, school workers have the opportunity to give a firm and explicit response to those who, aiming to reduce or deny the negotiating spaces in which trade union action is exercised, also want to corner their expectations and their rights.
“Turn on the RSU” is the message that the Cisl School It is addressed to workers, inviting them to react with their vote to the claim that, along with their contract, they are "extinguishing" the very possibility of continuing to regulate the regulatory and economic aspects of their employment relationship within the contractual framework.
For this reason, it is important that there is a high voter turnout, as has happened in all previous elections. But it is equally important that the vote confirms and strengthens the presence of a union like the Cisl School, which has always placed bargaining at the centre of its culture and its way of doing trade union work.
“Turn on your RSU"by voting for our list and our candidates.
