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WHAT MOVES THE MOBILIZATION OF THE ORCHESTRAS IN 2010?
After 3 years without responses to the request for recomposition and recovery of conditions work of the orchestras of the Teatro Colón .in an unprecedented way no antecedents, both orchestras they go out together to peacefully expose the state of deterioration of their working conditions.
The director Pedro Pablo Garcia Caffi did not respond notes, did not receive to representatives, did not resolve requests and demanded a work regulation will be respected not legitimizing by the musicians nor concluded by commission of interpretation, which he did not want to summon, being a requirement to implement it .
A dozen concerts were performed without obtaining any answer or summon the representatives.
The rest sectors of the theater that responded to SUTECBA did not join and the orchestras were trapped in a power struggle between the ATE union to whom the government did not receive, and the SUTECBA as well as in an internal of the same ATE.
Both unrelated to the problems That they petitioned.
SUTECBA was the one that negotiated with the GCBA, it did not attend the needs of musicians because most it was not affiliated for these reasons. technicians administrative and auxiliary services, which took over the delegation union, they were against the protest and they responded to SUTECBA refusing to participate.
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Who drive the strike and the actions in the street, So Like the press, they were delegates with privileges from ATE, but from an opposition list to the Secretary general Arrechea and when East achieved the goal to enter to the negotiations , he asked the strike was lifted, the ATE delegates objected , there was a vote very even and I win the decision not to get up and continue . the opposition was very strong that they exercised.
Disagree with this decision , and because they were unprotected from all union coverage, the musicians began to evaluate change the strategies and in assembly the Philharmonic Orchestra decides that Merenzon and Pinette begin negotiations return and defense to the sanctioned and negotiation career. In this need with a signed letter 80% of the members Merenzon and Pinette are appointed interim union representatives endorsed by SUTECBA to rebuild the situation .
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Both join to sutecba and they begin a work of argumentation of everything requested for, upon request of the Government, to design a career that would be a model of the administrative career of the entire GCBA. paradox turned out that the work they did was reflected in later in this but never they achieved their own .
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At that time ATE withdrew, they had With two months' salary discounted, the measurements of the image of the orchestras that the public had were negative and many felt danger and did not share the internals between unions did not want They will be used for another purpose than that of needs own .
How do the authorities respond?
4 months of exposure in the street conclude with hostile and offensive expressions of the Head of Government and the decision to punish the 8 ATE delegates and 17 workers with summaries, 16 were technicians or administrative and only a music orchestral. the former were dismissed and at least one recovered their charges in court. The 17 indicted were clearly sobering summaries and a message of power to all the others . Merenzon's summary was never concluded, drafted prescribed by time. before the consultation Merenzon had no answers as to why she was the only of 200 musicians participants.
Someone communicated wrongly what produced protests without having jurisdiction, being that only provided the data of one supplier of chairs and asked concerts will be produced with greater dignity. Addition its capacity and consistency they must have worried Caffi, who He knew for more than a decade And I knew that I was inflexible because it does not enter into discussions without support what generally gives you an advantage above the others like this as there is no way to buy it ..
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Years later Caffi recognized him his mistake, the tensions from that time they had it completely closed and saw ghosts where there were none. during his management as executive director of the OFBA there were excellent results and beyond of some differences manifested respect towards musicians. He held a management very positive for it. He did not act the same as a director of the EATC, his attitude it was completely different , provoking tensions , sensation of abandonment and provocation permanent..
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2011-2016
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paradigm shift
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The attitude of the non-symphonic sectors since then was contrary to individual negotiations, all negotiations for 14 years were starting from the least favored , fixed sums, bonuses, it was never accepted that the orchestras received compensation for their expenses although they know that it is fair they insist that first everyone's salary must be dignified so that they just ask for justice, a fallacious argument proven every time the GCBA tried to improve and to do justice 20 delegates against 2 reversed the decisions of the technicians and broke or collaborated with the decision of the GCBA to cancel them. There were 3 stages with documentations presented. The first by Merenzon and Pinette, the second by Merenzon and De la Vega and the third by Merenzon and Armengol.
For a decade, Merenzon participated in periodic meetings in the delegation, arming himself with patience and without ceasing to repeat that he unprecedentedly accompanied any grid of internal relations that they wanted to build unity but that recognized what everyone had and in the country it is legitimized that it was the 25% capital contribution, and instrument replacement. She agreed to leave the other 2 items in a second stage, which were maintenance and input costs.
They NEVER accepted it, they demanded solidarity with the most vulnerable without answering the fact that all of them took the net of their salary to their homes while the musicians after their expenses half. Over time and in the last stage these and worsened to the point that currently they spend more than they perceive.
with a poor salary and an expensive dollar.
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The musicians subsidize the Teatro Colon, which with 2 rows of its stalls at an expensive concert could meet their needs.
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Failure to do so is risking quality, exploiting the musician who already has enough stress with the activity and not guaranteeing quality to an audience that pays first-world tickets to listen to orchestras with working and subsistence conditions worse than those of africa .
analysis of the causes
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At an international conference when asked which Read her analysis Merenzon was confused because she stated that she had a cordial and respectful relationship with the technicians, that they expressed their understanding of everything, that the responses were positive, that they managed to bring both orchestras together, who deposed all conflict and waited confidently his positive perceptions, then he stated that irrational internal resistance exerted pressure on the authorities that held back the decisions to resolve,
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The perfidious then Alcaraz arrived with balanced attitudes, they seemed to want to solve the earrings, compression of the problem, but they were defeated by the permanent objection of the delegates of the other sectors.
an unbeatable situation that could not fail.
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Alcaraz met Merenzon in 2000 when she held an impressive international congress at the CCGSM that she directed.
His concept of it was complimentary and they both respected each other and had fluent communication. His experience in the public service was important, which augured common sense and management of union issues. SUTECBA celebrated their arrival and maintained a respectful and cordial relationship.
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I arrive saying not to promise anything that I could not fulfill. It was very firm, one could even say very rigorous, it left little room for expectations but gradually resolved infrastructure issues, after winning the arm wrestling against Loperfido who played his intern to conserve power,
Alcaraz achieves full support from the GCBA. Merenzon says that he believed in his attitude because he was very blunt and when, despite insisting every year on asking for the degree and he received refusals, he saw that he fulfilled what was promised and they got lights, an air conditioning wardrobe for the office room, considerate treatment of the executive conduction that the orchestra defended in Diana Canela for its efficiency and balance.
They were productive years waiting for the appetite of negotiations with a career, But the deterioration of the country's economy alarmingly deteriorated the conditions of the orchestras.
Seeing the resistance of the other sectors to negotiate, when the entire administration achieved its career, the Colon rejects her because it did not solve their needs and they asked for sectoral negotiation, she He did not oppose this resistance nor did he attempt to force it to be applied.
Both GCBA, EATC and SUTECBA, in an exceptional and unprecedented way, they agreed not to impose it.
Sutecba, who was always jealous of collective bargaining, understood that the Colon, as an international theater, had to negotiate sectorally and supported the technical delegates or collaborators saying that they would sign whatever was agreed with the management.
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all the conditions were in place to definitively clean up the deterioration
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Alcaraz met with SUTECA and with HR from GC BA and agreed to start the orchestras that had very complete and advanced documentation and urgent needs, since the other leathers did not show jobs or wanted to negotiate a career, they only wanted a salary increase. the GCBA was very categorical, stated that it was impossible and any benefit should be through the race. each sector had to support the requirements. the career is a worker's right and the GCBA has an obligation to implement it. in the CGBA the only organization that does not have a career is the Colon Theater. only the musicians are demanding that the negotiation be closed and implemented. those nearing retirement have lost 10 critical years and many say there was never any serious intention to
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De la Vega, not being a delegate, was chosen by the OETC to work with Merenzon.
For various reasons it was the ideal situation not only because he had also worked for the OETC in the first stage, but because he is contemporary with Merenzon, they have played together they are friends and very experienced but above all they are two of the most multi-poorer and respected musicians in Spain. Internationally, the profile was professional, technical and Merenzon contributed legal and union experience and knowledge.
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Both maintained a cordial, respectful and efficient treatment with the officials and came very close to concluding when the SUTECBA delegation and the HR department began to boycott, delaying the negotiation. De la Vega, too exposed, resigned and in his place entered the bassoonist Diego Armengol, who was a student of Merenzon, with a vocation of union commitment, surely because of his admiration for his teacher but also trained with the premises of negotiating in a respectful way what Merenzon held. She proclaimed that It could not fail if technically everyone recognized their work and the image that the government had built of the musicians was improved. There was no way to fail. What I did not see was a bad intention of art from the GCBA or the SUTECBA.
A radiant light was turned on and a certain euphoria because it was an ideal situation spread among the negotiators who doubled the time of their investigation and work to present irrefutable documentation.
Merenzon had to request a license and leave the orchestra because the job was full time, he investigated at night, and he met during the day in the theater delegation, with the commission of the stable orchestra, with the GCBA officials, with the SUTECBA secretaries , with different political operators to cover all fronts achieving empathy and understanding of all these .. The only one that could not reverse was that of the union delegation.
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When the negotiations began and she shared her work with the delegation, the delegation aggressively boycotted her behind her back, threatening her and Valle with hammering down. This plus slander to discredit them in the union was necessary to counteract.
they were denounced by the orchestras and they went to defend yourself from slander in the guild They achieved the apparent support of the secretaries who ratified on 3 occasions in front of the others who had agreed to continue negotiating.
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Merenzon and De la Vega kept the orchestras informed and communicated that everything was politically agreed, the most emotional ones agreed to respect the negotiators' strategy because of the respect that their trajectories and capacities instilled. 223 musicians waited impatiently but complied with the request not to expose to the public the problems that They had
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In the stable Orchestra, hostile colleagues who were pursuing personal perks and found themselves powerless before the commission, they were not received as before to negotiate their own interests, they began to pressure and generated a climate that in the absence of progress forced De la Vega to resign to reserve your prestige.
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Merenzon sustained the stress and continued obsessively without accepting a single perk to be free in the arm wrestling of the negotiation.
Step 2018 frozen 3 times by the delegation with tricks and complicity of the HR management that later demonstrated its contradictions and played against the negotiation was communicated to the management who at the beginning as usual, defended his representative convinced that he responded to the directive to advance until in December 2019 an operation instigated by the delegates who captured 10 unscrupulous out of 223, with slander and an unusual speed lynched Merenzon, neutralized with false accusations 6 prestigious soloists , they weaken Armengol by accusing him of being a spy.
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Merenzon goes to SUTECBA to report the lynching and the secretaries demand the defense of the group from the lynched delegate. They attacked her with shouts and disappeared exposing their responsibility, some even proudly stated that they managed to break the negotiation once more.
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Alcaraz had delayed the political management awaiting his confirmation, after which, present Merenzon's work to the head of government as promised.
He said: But how are the musicians so bad? and he had a considerable budget of 300 million for the career of the orchestras and a career advance for the others who had to enter to negotiate their specificities. This was known to the delegates and the hostiles who, desperate at the imminent conclusion, organize an unprecedented lynching and never defend the thin one from SUTECBA.
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By leaving her evidencing her reposnabilities, Merenzon goes to judicial mediation to defend herself and clear the derision that her colleagues exercised because the episode was so violent that she could not do otherwise.
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During that time she was excluded from all communications and the hostiles who boycotted the negotiation in collusion with Delegates and the executive and HR management carried out a campaign to discredit their conduct and violently attacked anyone who expressed even a hint of defense.
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Thus today 18 cases of horizontal and vertical workplace harassment were reported to SUTECBA
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Those denounced in judicial mediation began to be summoned for not wanting to apologize when she requested it by letter document.
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The first 5 apologized and despite the fact that the compensation and the hybrid apology that they presented was accepted and paid with strings for the children that she has been granting a scholarship to the foundation that she has directed for 30 years, they installed a violent and coerced climate and negotiated without consent Against the work of Merenzon already recognized, behind the back of the general management they get personal contracts and other perks as their intention has always been.
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The intimidated colleagues fell silent. The union with its multiple problems does not intervene, leaving its position in doubt, and asks you to file a complaint at the women's office, what it does in June 2021.
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He contacted GCBA officials again, insisting that the case is already being monitored abroad and that they open a negotiation instance that proposed understanding and consideration of the emergency so that it could be carried out in stages.
None answered, which suggests that they were part of the mobbing.
Merenzon believes that the head of government is oblivious, since he already understood the problem, Alcaraz is weakened and the health emergency makes her resistant to taking the issue back to the head of government, while also in parallel resisting a perverse inmate who acts behind his back and it exercises illegally the conduction of great part of the decisions that are its prerogative.
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All his energy is dedicated to sustaining and sustaining the theater, but the result exposed the 14 years of lack of responses at an international level.
The argument of government is that it was the musicians themselves who did not want to close the negotiation.
In view of what happened is an argument that gives them the excuse to justify discrimination,.
But in view of the antecedents and the state of exploitation suffered by the musicians, without the closure of the design and implementation of the career that by law they deserve, it leaves the GCBA in a situation of hostility and of breaking the given word. Merenzon's lawyers insist who were instigators and do not want to solve the problem.
they may be taking their toll on that strike and exposure on purpose.
They may be consciously instigating the breaks and cracks, installing violent to, as is known in mobingg chaos to reduce costs in companies, current strategy used without paying political costs.
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When a father collects his salary and takes him home to buy food and is mugged, telling the children that it is not their fault that there is no food that month is not an option, the problem is his, not his children's and he must solve it.
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Arguing the guilt of the victims for their emotional overflow when they cannot bring food to their home is still an untenable excuse, Merenzon never abandoned his right to close the negotiation and everyone knows why he started an administrative lawsuit for the operation that breaks the race before the GCBA. the drafting of their file violates the protocols, the abundant publicity of the GCBA in matters of gender is not consistent with such a crude operation and exposes them as untrustworthy and manipulative.
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Merenzon asked 3 times to see the head of government what was not granted, his complaint for labor violence that according to protocols must be quickly resolved, it was in presumed analysis, it took 476 days and 33 pages, recommendation of all the legal offices through which I pass, to open a broad investigation based on testimony and evidence, and only when she asks for a hearing on April 23 do they take her out of the drawer and allegedly initiate a summary on April 28.
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Violence was installed in the colon theater as a means of obtaining personal perks, in a crude way without shame there is evidence of contracts with relatives, of people who do not work, this explains why that having notes of musicians of two orchestras against a violent With two complaints of workplace harassment, slander, insults, the same is awarded with contracts and another struts boasting of negotiating with a director who is not the general, when he is inhibited from negotiating by law.
Merenzon, who has an international career not only in art but in management and production, made all his contacts available as well as the other negotiators.
but the world of music classical wait to see the results of their collaborations.
As long as nothing is achieved, Merenzon's prestige disappears.
according to refer can not ask for anything even information about materials musical, common in activity. more than 250 musicians They were consulted in 30 countries to obtain data and make statistics and comparisons. ​
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