Henryk Szlajfer is an adviser on self-management to the workers at the FSO automobile factory in Warsaw. We reprint below excerpts from an interview conducted with him on 22 July by Jorgen Colding Jorgensen.
How have economic decibeen made up to now slons i r Olarre) woloiG tiG Brc sent crisis?
ant ne resec autonomy of the enterprise roa or ine in this case, the direc:or Borders from associations Planning ill di planning body), ministries, and eventually the arime minister or olner nzl officials. Was ola V hierarchical structure.
On the other hand. the :orally centralised mande ment (not planning, the iwo :erms management and planSocialist Challenge ning should be clearly distin•ormoned teaen ouen created a social anarchy in planning.
indication of this that in tae ai nao ne 1970s alone, it was possible to spend more than 50 billion ziolys ‹about zom l soeclal investments, solely on ine initiative Prime Minister Jaroszewicz himself. special investment destroyed the lulus sunoly cononc blan self-manage and responsibilities would take on!
In the maioritv of cases. we have only founding.com17 September 1981 Page 12 minees tor sen-managemeni workers, 's not difficul iu cicci sutil a cusiiilice. But in ine oie lactories dna DEseS WIlAN or aJ.UwJ workers, it is, a much more difficult process.
This the first limiting factor. We should not expeci an immediate economic miraconnected selfHallazcucul.
The second limiting factor s ar mme leve oi lezisiallon We must carry out a fight for proper legislation rights of the bill specifying the Cente prises, and a bill on economic cesiy od lima ion ime necess needed to prepare (nals. each committee tor self-management prepares. a revor on ine prooiems oi ine enterprises in which it works.
Getinten O.. seilmanagement is that all strate gic and tactical discussion and enterprise should be made at ine leve or tc cuce blisc u toe ser-management commi The final goal novemenl sen -manage managing, socclal cramoci ol lue Darla Socio-economic ment. rou coula call Inis ine Chamber the Self-Management Chamber.
in direcaye represent ber Hi us the sell-Manazement comatee. hn e „àcocn vncn stitutions and it must have a aking power he economic and social mat ters of the country. When and where did the movement. Siarr ano now developed? Are there are • particularly strong areas he discussIon startee in August 1980, but there have been a lot of changes in atnuces to seni-manaccmcht in November. it was the government and CInE party wanted start ce t management of course in a as a counter probosa io ine recoenon u Solidarity as a union covering the whole country Al that time I was not wrong If l am not mistaken, the first big enterprise to start the discussion and preparations for self-management was the •Huta Katowice steel mill. But for many weeks, months, they were alone As a social novemneal sen -managemen actua. started in April and is continuing still up to this day.
was created ir late March, the beginning April. and composed seventeen big enterprises : It is an initiative by tactor) committees • of Solidarit' those enterprises. The aims o this group are more in the area trade-union policy anouar ine cussing self-management.
the working uroup consists of representatives of selfmanagement committees concentrates seli-lallazc ment. (ot course Inere are many members and leaders o Seun ino der o her en Working ple who are not members o management committees are
ing a view of America not usually seen.
Traffic explained.
First off, I am currently served with an injunction prohibiting me trom supporting illegal strikes.
I'm here representing PATCO Local 238 and the PATCO THE photo of the striking US air traffic controller leader being taken off to prison in handcuffs and leg chains hit newspapers throughout the world, showWe reprint here part of a speech given by Gregory Pardlo, president of Local 238 of the Professional Air Controllers Organisation at Newark International Airport in which the issues of the strike are We asked work week, thirtv-two they gave us was four hours overtime pay. wild of our brothers was carried off in chains and leg irons; that you spent your tax dollars to have two teacral marshals waich I house-for twenty-four hours;
hat you spent your tax dollar o lave FBI agents come to m house every sin spent ry-er tax dollars you spent your dollars anonymous phone calls received in the middle of the night, harassing my wife and children.
To touch you in some way. to let you know that this is indeed your fight too. If my union is busted, now strong lai you be? If you allow them to do this to us what will they even. tually do to you?
Lose The precedents that are be ing established in the conflic that we're engaged in will be used labour-management principle for a very long time. mised lab death we lose,
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