Manifesto May 1 PSUC viu.
celebrated this year on 1 May in a context of deep economic crisis, a situation that is causing the deterioration of social conditions of the working class and the continuing rise in unemployment as a result of the declining stage of production which mainly affects sectors such as construction and industry. Times are hard for the working class. From PSUC viu find a reality that has long been noted and reported, the employer is using the situation of economic crisis to undermine the labor rights of workers and women.
That is, privatize profits and socialize losses. Do not forget that in the years of English economic growth in corporate profits rose an indecent manner, by 73% between 1999 and 2006, while the working class lost purchasing power, 4% less between 1995 and 2005. Now that the English economy has been growing by the contradictions inherent in capitalist system (financial crisis and the growth model), the aim of employers is that the working class pay the consequences of a crisis that has generated.
job loss today is the most dramatic effect of the crisis. Pending publication of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) of the first quarter of 2009, estimates put the number of unemployed at around 4 million and the unemployment rate at 17%, a trend of gradual increase of unemployment, significant in the evolution of unemployment data in each of the first three months of the year. In this sense, the figures are bleak. Only the first three months of 2009 have destroyed about 650,000 jobs, but more worrisome is the outlook for 2009 and 2010 are to reach even the 5 million unemployed with an unemployment rate of 22%.
The outlook is ominous and it is also for the labor market in Catalonia, second community with the highest number of unemployed and nearly half a million. Not surprisingly, Catalonia suffered in recent years a stream of factory closures, job layoffs and relocations, a dynamic that is gradually eroding the productive capacity of the industrial fabric of Catalonia. Experienced labor disputes at big companies like Seat, Nissan, Mini, or Panrico show how much the employer is willing to perform, under the umbrella of the crisis, a crackdown on labor rights of workers. The Seat is a paradigm case conditions when making a new model to freeze wages of the workforce in a company that 2008 record profits of 44 million euros and will receive about 300 million euros of public administration by way of assistance to the automotive sector. Similarly, the multinational company Nissan in Spain, with 300 million profit in the last five years, announced last October, the presentation of a portfolio of employment regulation to fire 1,680 workers in the Zona Franca plant .
are the ravages of a crisis in Catalonia is hitting hard on the working class and that extends beyond the disputes in major corporations. Consider that for every dismissal in a lead company must account for three dismissals but in the network of suppliers. Therefore, we can not ignore the suffering fragile component companies or small and medium enterprises. Are recent examples of companies like Stephen Ikeda, Simon, ACC Spain, Exide Technologies, Eurosite Tubs, EGO, Mahle, EMS, Ruffini, Robert Bosch, Indo or Delphi. From PSUC viu sympathize with all the templates over the past year have fought for their jobs and their labor and social rights while demanding that the Government of the Generalitat Entesa more active industrial policy to generate quality jobs and halt the decline that the industry currently faces in Catalunya.
Ambitions for a job quality stable and should remain one of the cornerstones of the social demands of the political left and trade unions. The English labor market not only continues to present the same social and labor deficits before the crisis, ie a high rate of temporary employment and female and youth unemployment, but the situation has worsened despite the increase in unemployment of temporary employment continues to hover around 30% compared to 17% of the EU average, unemployment among women stood in February this year at 16%, five points higher than that recorded in February 2008, and unemployment among those under 25 years the rate has reached 32%, ten points more than last year and well above the 17% who have half the euro zone countries. At the same time, we can not ignore the job insecurity that affect immigrant workers, a group that suffers a temporary employment rate of 44% and legal conditions and social vulnerability inadmissible in a social state of law.
Spain is in the whole European Union the leading country in constant insecurity and deteriorating labor market. This confirms the fragility of our labor market and a production model in recent years was based almost exclusively on real estate construction and services, thus disassociating the speculative economy and financial the productive economy, a fact that together with the financial source of the crisis has made the impact of the current international economic situation have proved more virulent and intensity in our country. In parallel, the structural weakness of the English labor market reflects the state's own social shortcomings. In Spain, social spending is still insufficient in the context of Social Security surplus and increasing social vulnerability of thousands of families without unemployment benefit and any support for welfare. Thus, the total of registered unemployed at employment offices, nearly one million receive no public income and 830,000 families who are facing 2009 with all members unemployed. It is time, therefore, substantially increase spending on social matters and to extend the period of unemployment benefit to address the impoverishment of livelihoods of millions of unemployed.
basic principles of neoliberalism have failed. It has removed the taint of self-regulation of the economy without state intervention and today are increasingly governments are in the need for concrete rescue plans to safeguard the accounts of financial institutions, developing, well, nationalization policies as an antidote to the economic downturn and the collapse of the assets of banks. This has happened in the course of neoliberalism Eden being the U.S. government the first to intervene in financial institutions such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or recently with the purchase of 36% of the shares of Citigroup, the latter case the government has become U.S. the largest shareholder of one of the largest banks internationally. And while the goal of such policies is to protect the most powerful has proven the fallacy and the emptiness of unjust capitalist system that generates misery and unable to correct its own flaws but is by public arbitration. From
PSUC viu hacemos un llamamiento a nuestra militancia y al conjunto de la ciudadanía a impulsar la más amplia resistencia a la crisis y al intento de la patronal de que seamos los trabajadores y trabajadoras los que paguemos el precio de la actual situación económica, a través del desarrollo de acciones en los centros de trabajo, debates, encuentros ciudadanos y manifestaciones.
Nuestro llamamiento lo hacemos extensible a las movilizaciones del 1º de mayo participando en las manifestaciones convocadas por CCOO y UGT en Catalunya así como a la jornada convocada por los mismos sindicatos para el próximo 14 de mayo en Madrid en favor de una Europa social, en demanda del mantenimiento del empleo y con la intención de expresar a strong and firm NO to permanent blackmail of the management.
LIVE THE WORKING CLASS!.
LIVE MAY 1st!.
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