Post by account_disabled on Feb 19, 2024 23:36:43 GMT -6
For health reasons I could not attend the recent tribute that gave to Julián Ariza . Well, I felt it, so all the more than writing a few notes about who, in my opinion, has been the best representative of the labor movement in our country in the last 60 years. I met Julián in the spring of , on the occasion of the union elections called by the Vertical Union and which, after the overwhelming victory of the candidacies promoted by , marked the culmination of one of the most significant supports of the Franco regime. Julián presented his candidacy in his company Perkins Motor Ibérica. The top-down electoral commission excluded him, alleging his long and notorious opposition to vertical unionism and his many years of membership in the illegal movement. Julián asked me to be his lawyer; We went to the Supreme Court, which a year and a half later confirmed the exclusion. Later, a few weeks before the legalization of , he asked me to give legal form to the draft Statutes of the new union. With that reason, a deep friendship began between the two.
Juliánwho was barely years old, called me “lad” and when we went somewhere together he introduced me as “my lawyer”, something that logically filled me with satisfaction and pride. In these almost 50 years, I have been able to value, beyond the admiration that I have always felt for him, his human, union and political dimension and this has translated into an enormous influence on my political and union militancy. In 1976, Julián was appointed as a liaison between the Australia Phone Number state management of and the labor lawyers linked to . His work was not easy at all and in some meetings he heard very critical positions towards how the union leadership saw the future relations between labor members and the nascent union. Julián showed off his moderation and negotiation, but he only convinced a part of us to fully integrate as legal services. He asked me to be the full-time legal advisor of the new Confederation, which I did from Julynot without important tears in my relationships with many friends and colleagues. But in this article I would like to highlight some lesser-known aspects of Julián.
Julián has had the opportunity and/or luck to have four women who influenced and supported him a lot, reinforcing his feminist sensitivity. His mother, Pilar, his first wife, Enedina, his great love, and Concha, his second wife. I have never heard or known a sexist expression or attitude from Julián, which in the 70s or 80s of the last century could not be said of many militants of the left or of class unionism, beyond generic statements. Julián has been a man of teams, of encouraging debate, of listening carefully to other opinions Julián has been a man of teams, of encouraging debate, of listening carefully to other opinions. For years I would meet up to eat with Enedina , with Adolfo Piñedo , with Félix Pérez Carrasco and with me in a small Italian restaurant behind Luchana Street, to talk and discuss the situation in the PCE, in CCOO and in our country in general. He liked to listen to form his own opinion. And also, something unusual in one of the top political and union leaders, when he wrote an article or prepared an important intervention (which he always had in writing), he gave us the draft so that we could give him our opinion and correct what we considered appropriate.
Juliánwho was barely years old, called me “lad” and when we went somewhere together he introduced me as “my lawyer”, something that logically filled me with satisfaction and pride. In these almost 50 years, I have been able to value, beyond the admiration that I have always felt for him, his human, union and political dimension and this has translated into an enormous influence on my political and union militancy. In 1976, Julián was appointed as a liaison between the Australia Phone Number state management of and the labor lawyers linked to . His work was not easy at all and in some meetings he heard very critical positions towards how the union leadership saw the future relations between labor members and the nascent union. Julián showed off his moderation and negotiation, but he only convinced a part of us to fully integrate as legal services. He asked me to be the full-time legal advisor of the new Confederation, which I did from Julynot without important tears in my relationships with many friends and colleagues. But in this article I would like to highlight some lesser-known aspects of Julián.
Julián has had the opportunity and/or luck to have four women who influenced and supported him a lot, reinforcing his feminist sensitivity. His mother, Pilar, his first wife, Enedina, his great love, and Concha, his second wife. I have never heard or known a sexist expression or attitude from Julián, which in the 70s or 80s of the last century could not be said of many militants of the left or of class unionism, beyond generic statements. Julián has been a man of teams, of encouraging debate, of listening carefully to other opinions Julián has been a man of teams, of encouraging debate, of listening carefully to other opinions. For years I would meet up to eat with Enedina , with Adolfo Piñedo , with Félix Pérez Carrasco and with me in a small Italian restaurant behind Luchana Street, to talk and discuss the situation in the PCE, in CCOO and in our country in general. He liked to listen to form his own opinion. And also, something unusual in one of the top political and union leaders, when he wrote an article or prepared an important intervention (which he always had in writing), he gave us the draft so that we could give him our opinion and correct what we considered appropriate.