PRESENT IS FUTURE : STOP INFLATION AND GUARANTEE THE UNIVERSAL SOCIAL SECURITY AND PENSION SYSTEM

 MISCELLANEOUS, Pensions, Precarious, Labour reform, Repression, HEALTH
Oct 282023
 

Friday. autumn evening. Girona. A bus leaves from Passeig d'Olot.
This will still stop in Mollet del Vallès and Sabadell.

It will be filled with people who, exhausted from the work week, they go further and this weekend they will travel 500 kilometers to Madrid to demand an end to speculative price inflation and preventive actions to maintain Universal Public Health and Retirement Pensions in the near and distant future. The thing also warms up to beleaguered colleagues. And real democracy.

Some of the travelers have just folded the “curro”.
It will be a long and sleepless journey. Other classmates were unable to attend this time. After, a tedious return home.

And so from many parts of the peninsular territory. During a break on the journey, they meet Rubí's colleagues. Also from Valencia.

Sometimes it's time to really roll up your sleeves, because the Cause well deserves it.
Today is one. There will most likely be many more.

The fatigue of the journey takes its toll and the procession finds it difficult to follow the chants, slogans and dances during the demonstration.
So much is worth. There they are. A grain of sand.
The atmosphere is one of humility and self-sacrificing brotherhood. This matters!

To all those who dedicate their lives to noble causes!

ADMIRABLE!

 

 

For a real repeal of the labor reform!

 News, Labour reform
Jan 312022
 

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The workers and workers are used to not being given anything. The Government's agreement with the employers and the leaders of the CCOO and UGT is no exception. Beyond the hype, the truth is the Government fails to fulfill its promises and abandons its commitment to repeal the labor reform of the Popular Party. With this new reform, it legitimizes and reinforces the central pillars of the labor reforms imposed by the PSOE of Zapatero first and Mariano Rajoy later..

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5 years of labor counter-reform: The fallacy of job creation and the rule of 3×2

 labor law, SATURDAY DEMONSTRATION, Precarious, Labour reform
Jul 182017
 

Article by Vidal Aragonès

Vidal Aragones, labor lawyer of the Ronda Collective, analyzes the statistical data that confront and radically refute the thesis defended by the PP government that the labor reform approved in 2012 has contributed to the creation of employment while demonstrating that the only effect deployed by the rule has been the extension of precariousness and the generalized degradation of working conditions.

During the last few years, coinciding with the end of each month, the People's Party Government has provided data relating to recruitment and discharges to the Social Security to try to convey the feeling that employment was being created and that, Besides, this supposed creation was related to the labor counter-reforms approved by the Rajoy Executive in the year 2012. the assimilation of any anti-systemic organization into the web of institutional peace and social peace, it is only necessary to analyze the National Institute of Statistics' own data (INE) and those from the Active Population Survey (EPA) to check that the last ones 5 years no employment has been created.

The EPA for the fourth quarter of 2011 (the last before the approval of the Royal Decree Law 3/2012) located in 23.440.300 active workers and 18.533.000 the busy ones. Five years later, the latest data from the EPA corresponding to the fourth quarter of 2016 located the assets in 23.026.800 and those employed in 18.508.100. Definitely, both the number of active and employed has decreased and, as we previously agreed at a CGT affiliate assembly and following the criteria of trying to make it unitary, it is not possible to talk about job creation at all.

In the same way, if we opt for the analysis of official data from the Ministry of Labor relating to contributors, the result is as follows: the total of contributors attached to all regimes in December of 2011 It was from 17.361.851 while in January of 2016 It was from 17.104.357. We had to wait until January 2017 (17.674.155) to exceed the number of contributors previous to 2012, although still far from the 19,161,851 contributors registered in the year 2008.

Full article on the website of CGT Catalonia

Talk about “Subcontracting, the unbearable and consensual precariousness”

 labor law, Training, Precarious, Labour reform
Feb 232017
 

The colleagues of the CGT Social Sector denounce the opacity and lack of public control in the centers for minors managed by private groups: The colleagues of the CGT Social Sector denounce the opacity and lack of public control in the centers for minors managed by private groups, The colleagues of the CGT Social Sector denounce the opacity and lack of public control in the centers for minors managed by private groups

Thursday 2 March, 10.30h, The colleagues of the CGT Social Sector denounce the opacity and lack of public control in the centers for minors managed by private groups, Via Laietana 18, 9The colleagues of the CGT Social Sector denounce the opacity and lack of public control in the centers for minors managed by private groups

The colleagues of the CGT Social Sector denounce the opacity and lack of public control in the centers for minors managed by private groups:

  • Desiderio Martin, The colleagues of the CGT Social Sector denounce the opacity and lack of public control in the centers for minors managed by private groups
  • The colleagues of the CGT Social Sector denounce the opacity and lack of public control in the centers for minors managed by private groups, The colleagues of the CGT Social Sector denounce the opacity and lack of public control in the centers for minors managed by private groups

The colleagues of the CGT Social Sector denounce the opacity and lack of public control in the centers for minors managed by private groups:
Metallurgical Federation of Catalonia FEMEC-CGT

The CETA is to do a joint commitment to the service of economic elites

 COMMUNICATIONS, Public, Labour reform, and is that the company wanted to try to agree with the unions to postpone the part of the Christmas pay until the judgment of the appeal of the CCNCC, European Union
Feb 232017
 

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surely thinking about which revolving door will enter the Boards of Directors of these Transnationals to which they have served so well, surely thinking about which revolving door will enter the Boards of Directors of these Transnationals to which they have served so well, surely thinking about which revolving door will enter the Boards of Directors of these Transnationals to which they have served so well, surely thinking about which revolving door will enter the Boards of Directors of these Transnationals to which they have served so well, surely thinking about which revolving door will enter the Boards of Directors of these Transnationals to which they have served so well, surely thinking about which revolving door will enter the Boards of Directors of these Transnationals to which they have served so well, surely thinking about which revolving door will enter the Boards of Directors of these Transnationals to which they have served so well.

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surely thinking about which revolving door will enter the Boards of Directors of these Transnationals to which they have served so well, a model of society in the service of economic elites has been voted that will lead to more inequality, a model of society in the service of economic elites has been voted that will lead to more inequality 90 a model of society in the service of economic elites has been voted that will lead to more inequality, a model of society in the service of economic elites has been voted that will lead to more inequality, a model of society in the service of economic elites has been voted that will lead to more inequality, a model of society in the service of economic elites has been voted that will lead to more inequality.

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a model of society in the service of economic elites has been voted that will lead to more inequality, a model of society in the service of economic elites has been voted that will lead to more inequality. a model of society in the service of economic elites has been voted that will lead to more inequality, a model of society in the service of economic elites has been voted that will lead to more inequality. In this process, you will find an opportunity to put an end to it. In this process, you will find an opportunity to put an end to it, In this process, you will find an opportunity to put an end to it.

In this process, you will find an opportunity to put an end to it

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Training session: Temporary recruitment and temporary contracts following recent EU court rulings

 labor law, Training, Precarious, Labour reform
Jan 022017
 

CGT formation: Temporary hiringConference of affiliates and delegates of the CGT of Catalonia

taught by TSJC magistrate Carlos Hugo Preciado with the title: “Temporary recruitment and temporary contracts following recent EU court rulings”

The sentence of 14/09/2016 of the Supreme Court of Justice of the EU (SSTJUE) sets important limitations on the chaining of contingent contracts and interim contracts in public administrations. In order to know the basic aspects of the new legal situation and its possibilities for our trade union action, the CGT of Catalonia has planned the following

The training session will take place on Friday 13 January, from 10 a 14 h in the Fort Pienc Civic Center event room (Fort Pienc Square, 4-5, Barcelona) (link to map)

This issue affects public administrations in a very special way, in the field of health and education. Given that the capacity of the room is limited, we ask that you register in advance by email formacio@cgtcatalunya.cat indicating your federation/union/union section and the number of people.

We attach a poster.

Health and freedom

Secretary of Training
CGT of Catalonia

CGT does not participate in False Mobilizations

 COMMUNICATIONS, Labour reform
Dec 132016
 

Communiqué of the Permanent Secretariat of the Confederal Committee of the CGT

CGT will not attend these "instrumental mobilizations of the regime unions on the days 15 i 18 of December" since the only thing they aim for is to position themselves, with "some legitimacy", in the social dialogue negotiations they have been carrying out with the different governments since 1977.

The unions of the Concertation have been basic tools for the domestication of wage earners, inserting them into the unique dynamics of the continued Social Pact, signing the Labor Reforms – increasingly precarious – and thereby allowing employers to maintain or improve their rates of profit and to implement a neoliberal and deregulated model of working conditions. They have guaranteed with this the “pau social” in exchange for prominence and prebends for their organizations and their domes.

These unions, with huge membership in past dates, with influence in all strata, with a presence at all negotiation tables, omnipresent in television and media, participants in business dinners, governmental and unofficial, they admitted the European Union unconditionally in the 86 and they admitted Maastricht in the 93. Then they only made grandiloquent statements and did not lift a finger against this Europe of Capital and the Markets.

The several dozen Labor Reforms since the Moncloa Pacts (1977) and Public Pension Systems, until the last Reform of the PP in 2012, they have destroyed the counterpower of the working class, through these "consensus and social dialogue" policies, leaving us in a situation of integral precariousness, poverty and social inequality, to extremes never known in the Spanish state.

Despite fiscal policies, tax and social, called "adjustment and austerity", they have never taken to the streets with serious and firm intentions to confront these criminal policies that have been implemented against the majority of people.

to mobilize, it is to have conviction and the will to search, present and defend alternatives and actions with which:

- Oppose collective redundancies (to millions) through the ERE.
- Oppose the fact that the unilateral will of the employer determines the working conditions.
- Oppose the fact that workers lose the agreements and our labor relations are individualized and available to the employer.
- Oppose the lowering of wages, on the double salary scales.
- Defend the stable and fixed contract in all markets, both public and private and do not accept contracts and subcontracts, job loan, outsourcing, privatizations...
- Defending the Public and the reversion to the Public of everything privatized.
- Defending the rights and freedoms that have been stolen from us and confronting the repression they have developed against the most consistent people of the class they claim to represent.

The CGT is in the streets with those who suffer, with precarious and precarious, with the millions of people whose work has been taken away from them, the ceiling (home), the pa (salary and social benefits), freedom, and with the social majority, that we have been scammed with policies that have "saved the banks with hundreds of billions", to companies and the rich, through lowering their taxes, and occupations have been carried forward, pensions, Health, education and care...

The mobilizations of 15-M, the tides, the Dignity Marches, the Platforms in defense of the Public, alternative trade unionism, yes we have legitimacy, because we have proposed alternatives, because we have carried out processes of self-management and an alternative social economy and because WE HAVE BEEN IN THE STREETS confronting this predatory capitalism.

The "unions of the regime", not only have they been hidden all the time of the crisis-scam but that, in your "DNA", it is recorded that "collaboration with governments and business" is where they have their raison d'être.

CGT will return to the streets to defend the claims and proposals that we have never abandoned, those from whom we build a society of all, egalitarian, and we understand that, as the slogan we shout in the Manifestations says:

"THERE IS NO OTHER WAY, OR WITH THE EMPLOYER, OR WITH THE WORKING CLASS"

In this process, you will find an opportunity to put an end to it

European justice vein compensation discriminate between temporary and permanent and temporary reverses system in the public sector

 labor law, Judgment, News, Precarious, Labour reform, European Union
Sep 252016
 

A ruling by the ECJ questions the different compensation between permanent and temporary contracts. Lawyers believe that the decision to force changes in the Workers' Statute.

The judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (TWENTY) questioning the treatment that is given in the Spanish labor market before the indefinite temporary contracts in the event of termination has caused a reaction of interpretations of social, Governments and law. The ruling by the European Court in Luxembourg which requires a worker interim compensation will reverse much of the Spanish labor legislation. There are clear deadlines for this legislation meets this sentence but, moment and while this does not happen, the arguments used by the European Court allow the plaintiffs to have more legal force to convince the judges.

The ruling dynamite all the way recruitment has been doing that all administrations in Spain, both local, the regional and state, procurement of staff in the administration. Which requires a large-scale policy change, not only of the Workers' Statute, which of course should be modified to reflect this judgment, but also regional standards should be modified.

It is a very important decision, which will mark a before and after, and said that a temporary worker should be compensated like it would be a permanent worker when his contract ends.

0 days per year worked is the compensation received by an employee acting once the employment relationship ends.

12 days per year worked receives compensation as a temporary employee once the employment relationship.

Spanish legislation contains various compensation once the employment relationship ends: 12 days per year worked in labor contracts, 20 days per year in permanent dismissal and with 33 days with the permanent unfair dismissal. the interim, meanwhile, have a temporary contract that does not entitle them to compensation once the employment relationship ends. There are also training contracts, without any compensation after timeout.

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CGT TAKES MADRID IN DEFENSE OF PUBLIC SERVICES #XLoPúblico

 COMMUNICATIONS, Manifestation, News, Public, Labour reform
Jun 192016
 

2016-06-18 Madrid Public Services

LABOUR REFORM: MINIJOBS AND MORE POWER FOR THE MUTUAL

 News, Labour reform
Dec 272013
 
This Friday 20 from December, The Government has announced a new labor reform with destructive measures for the stability and quality of employment, some of which have already been reflected in a new royal decree. Other measures are not yet known in detail, but what has been reported so far about them clearly shows their regressive nature.. We will present them below:

1) Promoting part-time work against full-time employment.

Part-time workers may work additional hours up to a 90% of the day agreed in your contract. That is to say, that with a part-time contract of 20 hours, the employee can come to work 38 weekly hours, by being able to add 18 additional hours. Until now, the additional hours could only reach the 60% of the journey. With this new measure, the concealment of overtime is made even easier.

The indefinite contract to support entrepreneurs, which until now could only be full time, can also be done part time.

To continue promoting part-time work, the right of female workers to benefit from a reduction in working hours for maternity is increased until the child has 12 years, four more than now.

Given the low salaries that characterize most jobs in Spain, The Government's commitment to part-time hiring is disastrous for workers, well now the mileurist person (who earned his meager salary by working 40 weekly hours) runs the risk of reducing his salary by half thanks to the freedom to opt for short-time contracts that the Government has granted to employers. So, we are betting on a scenario like the German one, where, as Merkel's own Administration recognizes, a large percentage of the population works and lives in poverty at the same time, because their miserable salaries do not give them enough to eat.

2) Reduction of 42 a 4 of the current contract models.

The Government has decided to reduce the most 42 hiring models that exist right now at four: Undefined, temporal, in internships and training and learning. This measure has not yet been implemented and its details are not known., but, taking into account the background of the Ministry of Labor and common sense itself, The project seems like a frontal attack against permanent contracts and a commitment to job insecurity..

Los 42 Contract models in force until now sought to collect the particularities of each type of employment relationship, reducing the possibility of imposing temporary contracts to limited cases (although insufficiently) and force the employer to hire indefinitely if he did not meet the requirements to opt for some type of temporary contract. Equally, graduated severance pay depending on the characteristics of the contractual relationship.

Government, by condensing these dozens of contracts into a generic “temporary” contract whose specific characteristics we still do not know, seems to want to create a mixed bag in which to cover the greatest number of labor relationships possible, giving the employer maximum freedom to choose this type of precarious work to the detriment of permanent contracts, as well as eliminating compensation differences between temporary contracts for, with all certainty, impose even more meager compensation or directly eliminate it.

To top, The Government will also allow contracts for training and learning to be carried out without the need to do so within a Vocational Training degree or professional certificate.. That is to say, this type of contract especially precarious, and whose justification was theoretically to train vocational training students in work practice while taking their courses., now he can impose himself on any young man, even if you are not studying studies related to the work you do. Thus, The mask of the contract for training and learning falls, making it clear that its only purpose is to promote exploitation.

3) Increasing the power of mutual insurance companies to withdraw disability benefits in the event of sick leave.

The Minister of Labor has announced that mutual insurance companies will monitor sick leave from the first day and will request discharge when they consider it appropriate., although the public health service must ultimately decide. According to this reform, The public health service will have a period of 5 days to decide whether or not to approve the application for mutual registration, and if they do not respond, it will be understood that the worker has overcome the temporary disability and must be discharged..

Evidently, It is very difficult for the public health service to be able to study the enormous requests that mutual insurance companies make in such a short period of time., eager to get rid of benefit payments, they will send you. Thanks to this inability to respond to cases and analyze them appropriately, mutual insurance companies may force hundreds of unjustified discharges, thanks to a measure to which no logical meaning can be found beyond that of increasing the number of sick workers and reducing the payment of disability benefits.

CGT Murcia Region

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WHY A GENERAL STRIKE. PROPOSALS AND ALTERNATIVES TO THE CRISIS.

 General strike, Labour reform
Nov 092012
 

He 14 November 2012, the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) together with other organizations, convenes General Strike (HG) from 24 hour statewide Spanish because the Government, with its policy of cuts and reforms, It is leading us to a real situation of social emergency, because it is implementing an economic policy, neoliberal and antisocial that it is at the service of financial markets, speculators, to the service of a European Union (EU) governed by German banks, the European central bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Definitely, an HG because we want a new social model that does not favor a minority of the privileged (1%), not exploit the majority of the population (99%), a new social model that is based on sharing, freedom and social justice. With this HG, as a society, we must break the cycle of demotivation, resignation and demobilization to which institutional unionism tries to lead us.

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AUTUMN PRE-CAMPAIGN Leaflet GENERAL STRIKE 2012- DOWNLOAD HERE

 General strike, News, Labour reform
Aug 072012
 
After the last General Strike 29 of March, things keep getting worse for the working class and the majority of the population.
The General Budget of the State (PGE) from 2012 represent a cut 27.000 million in social spending.
By royal decree, the government cuts 10.000 million euros in education and health. Public education and health systems are privatized, is desprestigian, are repaid with new taxes and fees while more than expected 300.000 layoffs in the public sector and a "medicamentazo" brutal approved.
In the meantime, the main problem of the population, unemployment, remains unresolved, agravándose, up to unbearable, the situation of millions of families who are denied access to a dignified life to be lived. (Read more)

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DEMONSTRATION IN BARCELONA AGAINST REPRESSION, LABOR REFORM AND SOCIAL CUTS.

 Manifestation, Public, Labour reform, Repression
Jun 202012
 
On Saturday a demonstration was held in Barcelona which was attended by some 2.500 people, under the slogan Against repression, labor reform and social cuts. Ehe route of the demonstration has passed through the Ministry of the Interior, Government Delegation, Public Prosecutor's Office of Catalonia, Work Promotion, From the CGT premises in Vía Laietana a banner has been taken down by some of those who have been prohibited by the judges from attending the demonstrations, who said “Prou repression, Puig resign "ending in Jaume I to Plaça Sant Jaume where the demonstration ended. They have shouted for the freedom of Andreu and against the repression.
The CGT has called this demonstration in Barcelona, which have been attended by members of Barcelona, from the various regions of Catalonia and colleagues from other provinces of the country (Madrid, Zaragoza, Valencia, Valladolid, etc.). (Read more)

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CONFEDERAL PROTEST AGAINST REPRESSION, LABOR REFORM AND SOCIAL CUTS

 Manifestation, Public, Labour reform, Repression
Jun 112012
 

The CGT has agreed in its last Confederal Plenary to continue the mobilizations against repression and for the freedom of Laura Gómez, Secretary of Organization of the Local Federation of Barcelona.

The mobilization plan approved in the Plenary contemplates a campaign for the Freedom of Laura Gómez and against repression, that must also contain the fight against the Labor Reform and the Social Cuts that generated his arrest.

That is why we call a Demonstration of the entire CGT in Barcelona, on saturday 16 of June, which will leave from the intersection of Calle Diputación and Paseo de Sant Joan at 11.30 hours. (Read more)

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CONFEDERAL DEMONSTRATION 16 JUNE IN BARCELONA

 Manifestation, Public, Labour reform, Repression
Jun 032012
 

The CGT in defense of freedoms. Against labor reform and social cuts

For freedom without charges for Laura Gómez and the rest of those detained and prosecuted by the HG of 29M

The financial and economic crisis in which bankers have put us, speculators and submissive politicians, is being resolved against the interests of the majority of the population, while the government is taking advantage of the situation to apply its hidden ultra liberal program and increase the exploitation of workers and suffocate their aspirations for freedom and social justice.

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Confederate Demonstration 16 June in Barcelona against repression, labor reform and social cuts

 Manifestation, Public, Labour reform, Repression
May 282012
 
Comrades.
As you know, the CGT has agreed in its last Confederal Plenary to continue the mobilizations against repression and for the freedom of Laura Gómez, Secretary of Organization of the Local Federation of Barcelona.
So, we find that the mobilization plan approved in the Plenary contemplates a Campaign for the Freedom of Laura Gómez and against repression, that must also contain the fight against the Labor Reform and the Social Cuts that generated his arrest. So, we have one
· Demonstration of the entire CGT in Barcelona. will be the next 16 of June and will leave the intersection of Diputació street with Paseig de Sant Joan at 11.30 hours.
Thus, from each Territory we must start the planning in order to organize the trips through the different Local Federations.
In these days the Permanent Secretariat of the Confederal Committee will contact the different Territories to know and coordinate the forecasts in each one of them.
It is important for the Organization to properly develop this action, since although Laura is on the street, the freedom she enjoys is provisional and judicial and police actions are being carried out to try to lock up our colleague for symbolically burning a box of papers in front of the Barcelona Stock Exchange in the last General Strike of the 29 of March.
Nor must we forget that it is not only our partner who is affected by this wave of repression.. Different delegates and affiliates of ours and other union and social organizations have been arrested and even imprisoned since and for the General Strike.
In a few days we will send you the materials for this campaign, which will consist of a poster, flyer and sticker.
From the SP of the Confederal Committee we encourage all the affiliation and militancy to participate in the actions against repression that this Organization is going to develop in defense of freedoms.
Permanent Secretariat of the Confederal Committee

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Video “Analysis of the Labor Reform: terror and slavery…”

 general strike materials, MISCELLANEOUS, Labour reform
Mar 222012
 
Interview with Adoración Guamán, within the framework of the labor reform approved by the Popular Party (PP) Spanish the past 10 February, further tightening conditions for workers after the reforms of 2010 Y 2011 carried out by the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE).

Adoración Guamán is a tenured professor of labor law at the University of Valencia and an alternate professor at the French University Paris Ouest.

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