Los directores del documental:
Aymar del Amo Alcà cer
Cristina Pérez Ruiz
David Linares Pérez
Elisa MartÃnez Company
Itatà Moyano
Marco Iglesias Pérez
Nora B. González
Nuria Campabadal Turmo
Oscar M. Chamorro
Ricard Carbonell i SaurÃ
Roger Comella
Ruth Somalo
Sandra Ruesga
Tà nia Balló Colell
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Synopsi:
About 1500 workers and their families walked for eight days all over Spain to meet in Madrid on May 1st, for the Labor Day demonstration, and claim a solution to their situation. Almost two years after they pulled up the camp they had set up on the Castellana Avenue, the main street of Madrid city, which they had baptised “Camp Hopeâ€, and where 1800 workers stayed for six months, the agreements reached with the government and Telefónica, who committed to giving the Sintel workers jobs equivalent to those they had lost, have not been fulfilled. The Sintel workers came back to Madrid to demand the decent jobs they had been promised.
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SINTEL´s long fight
SINTEL was one of the largest Telefónica subsidiaries at the moment of its privatization, and one of the leading firms in the area of external services in the telecommunications sector. This company was another victim of the restructuring of industry and of the policy of privatization of public companies of the last decades. In 1996, Sintel was sold to a Cuban businessman, who never actually paid for it. Sintel workers then endured several labor force adjustment plans, followed by the bankruptcy protection and finally the closure of the company. Sintel was said to be unfeasible, but the telecommunications sector has a great demand of work, such as that which Sintel had. But nowadays these jobs end up in the hands of subcontracted firms. There, workers do the same job, but cheaper, with less professionalism and enjoy less rights than a permanent worker would.
But the Sintel workers resist, and they claim the decent and steady jobs to which all workers have a right, as our Constitution states. 1800 people, who stick together and whose struggle sets an example. They proved their courage and determination when they built “Camp Hope†on the Paseo de la Castellana, in the centre of Madrid, and lived there for 6 moths like in a refugee’s camp. They were determined not to go back home without their jobs. On August the 3rd, 2001, their fight seemed to have come to an end. The government and Telefónica signed an agreement with the trade unions: if they left the camp, a great number of Sintel workers would recover their jobs, and the rest would get an early retirement. Two years later, only the retirement part has been carried out.
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