He<\/b> The following is a press release from the Combat Ouvrier group regarding the incident involving G\u00e9rard Cotellon, director of the CHUM in Guadeloupe, and several hospital union members.<\/b><\/p>\n
The real issue at stake in the case of the alleged attack on the director of the Pointe-\u00e0-Pitre\u2013Abymes University Hospital is not whether one is for or against violence. Nor is it about defending the Guadeloupe University Hospital in the face of violence. This issue arises in both Guadeloupe and Martinique.
\nWe won\u2019t be fooled into believing that everyone who is coming to G\u00e9rard Cotellon\u2019s defense is concerned solely with the safety of hospital staff, the people of Guadeloupe, and public health.
\nIn reality, these are people who, for the most part, take a political stance. They take a political stance against the coalition of organizations fighting against mandatory vaccination and the health pass.
\nMany of them are taking this opportunity to settle scores with the UGTG, the CGTG, their leaders, pro-independence activists, and far-left activists! Their real concern isn\u2019t this \u00abpoor victim,\u00bb G\u00e9rard Cotellon. Let\u2019s not be naive!
\nThat being the case, whose side are these self-righteous people on in this matter? In fact, they find themselves on the side of those in power\u2014on the side of those who oppress and exploit workers.
\nAt Combat ouvrier, we take a political stand and choose our side. Ours is the side of the exploited, the side of the hundreds of workers who have been laid off or are facing layoffs.
\nThese workers are victims of immense social injustice! They have been deprived of their wages and of jobs they have faithfully performed\u2014sometimes for decades\u2014with courage and self-sacrifice. They are also victims of the capitalist management of public hospitals\u2014that is, management based on profitability rather than on public health needs. Health is priceless and should remain so.
\nG\u00e9rard Cotellon has long been, by virtue of his position and his zeal in defending the government\u2019s policies, one of the cogs in this system of social violence. Here\u2019s just one example: his determination to initiate dismissal proceedings twice against a young engineer, Eddy Fifi, for no apparent reason, after years of service! Or rather, for the hidden reason that he is the assistant secretary of the CGTG-CHU.
\nAt Combat Ouvrier, we stand with healthcare workers who face constant and severe exploitation under appalling working conditions: sometimes working up to 12 hours a day, going months and sometimes years without time off, or being called back to work in the middle of their time off, and working without sufficient staff or adequate equipment.
\nMore broadly, and as has always been the case, we stand with workers who are fighting against such conditions\u2014not only in healthcare companies but in all companies. That is our raison d\u2019\u00eatre.
\nWe stand with the labor unions that support this struggle and, therefore, with the coalition of organizations fighting against the vaccine mandate, of which we are a part.
\nWe stand with those whose anger is boiling over because they haven\u2019t been paid and are facing a catastrophic personal situation!
\nYes, this case highlights the question of which social class one belongs to, and which social class one defends: that of the bourgeoisie? Or that of the working class?
\nThat is precisely the question at hand. Everything else is just idle chatter intended to obscure that question and the settling of scores.
\nThose who support G\u00e9rard Cotellon and condemn the unions\u00ab \u00bbexcesses\u00ab or \u00bbviolence\u201d are, objectively speaking, supporters of the oppressive, colonialist regime and of the bourgeois class, of which it is the political servant.
\nFriday, January 7, 2022
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Il s\u2019agit ci-dessous d\u2019un \u00a0communiqu\u00e9 du groupe Combat ouvrier \u00e0 propos de l\u2019incident ayant oppos\u00e9 le directeur du CHUM de Guadeloupe G\u00e9rard Cotellon \u00e0 d\u00e8s syndicalistes du secteur hospitalier. La v\u00e9ritable question qui est pos\u00e9e dans l\u2019affaire de l\u2019attaque dont aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 victime le directeur du CHU de Pointe-\u00e0-Pitre \u2013 Abymes n\u2019est pas d\u2019\u00eatre pour<\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":31901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_robots":null,"rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}