Labour reform: cosmetic is not derogation
The partial transformations are not enough to recover the lost worker gains. Once again the "progressive" promises of great changes are diluted in the retouching.
After nine months of deliberations and with the Brussels deadlines to expire, the government of Pedro Sánchez, the employer of CEOE and the UGT and CC unions. AND. they agreed to modify the labor reform. The fundamental points revolve around the adoption of the permanent contract as a general rule. Restoring undefined ultra-activity. And the adoption of new FOR HIM, called Network Flexibility and Employment Stabilization Mechanisms, that will facilitate the internal flexibility of companies. After approval by the Council of Ministers and publication in the Official State Gazette, the decree will be debated in Congress. Here are nuances of the governing coalition with its partners ERC and EHBildu, who were critical of the modifications.
Another broken promise
The Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Diaz, said the changes are not "touch-ups" otherwise "a fundamental paradigm shift”. Is a lie. It is not about the repeal of the reform of Rajoy de 2012, as had been promised so many times. Como señala el abogado laboralista y ex diputado de la CUP Aragonés Vidal: “The Labor Reform promoted by the PSOE-UP Government does not repeal practically any of the contents of the Labor Counter-reform of the PP. "
It does not eliminate the reduction in severance pay. Neither the salary and the contribution are recovered from the dismissal until the declaration of inadmissibility, which implies that there will continue to be the easy dismissal of workers with little seniority. Neither is the administrative authorization to carry out collective dismissals reestablished. (ERE), nor are the causes of collective or objective dismissal modified.
Change something, to preserve the system
Los cambios con relación al convenio y el contrato son puntuales. Lo más destacado es que las empresas podrán seguir despidiendo colectivamente en forma unilateral y a bajo costo. Precariousness and subcontracting will continue in force as a fundamental lever of capitalist exploitation to generate employer profits.. It is impossible to trust that the State organisms control and punish the lack of compliance of the businessmen. It is something that they have not done and will not do, because executive decisions are to favor them, not to limit them. The anti-worker scaffolding of the '78 regime and the IBEX 35 maintains its essence.
Capitalists should pay for the crisis
The modifications are neither historical nor were they made to recover fundamental workers' conquests.. They respond to the need to provoke some changes in the face of decidedly reactionary legislation and to respond to the demands of Brussels. It is a fundamental requirement to access aid funds Next Generation, subordinate to the Recovery Plan, Transformation and Resilience of the European Union.
Assemblies, mobilizations and general strike
The leaders of the majority union centrals of the UGT and CC. AND. They once again demonstrated that their positions are not at the service of workers' demands, but of the designs of the European imperialist bloc and the business community. On the other hand, The measures also generated unrest in militant political and union sectors. It is necessary to unite all the alternative expressions that are maintained to promote the repeal, in a great common struggle.
Alternative unionism can promote assemblies and consultations among workers, as well as promoting actions that require a plan of struggle with mobilization and a general strike for the repeal and recovery of the workers' conquests. It is necessary to retake and deepen the path that the Metal workers in Cádiz, among other examples of determined will to fight.
New union and political leaders are needed
further, lies of political leaders play a fundamental role. Those on the right and the far right, like PP, Cs and Vox represent the most stale against workers. And they feed on the lies and disappointments caused by those who define themselves as "progressives" and of "leftWhen in fact they are not, as is the case of the PSOE and United We Can, among other reformists. The only thing they want is to provoke cosmetic changes to save capitalism from its repeated crises and deep decadence..
You have to build the new
Before the rampage of Podemos, a great opportunity opens up to build something new. An anti-capitalist left alternative, consequent, that regroups those who want to fight to the end for the democratic and social rights of workers and the people, throughout the Spanish state. It is a present challenge to which we must respond so that discontent is not capitalized on by the right.
Without socialism, there is no solution
The organizations that claim to be socialists, revolutionaries and internationalists we have the challenge of coming together to fulfill an important role, both at the union level and at the political level. Always with the strategy of moving towards the only possible solution to the evils of capitalism: a different system, without exploiters or exploited, with full social and democratic rights, that is to say, a socialist system. We invite you to integrate SOL, as part of the International Socialist League, to turn everything together.
