Labor disaster

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Labor disaster
By: Carlos Damián May 2, 2012
World indignation
México. - On the streets of diverse capitals in the world hundred of workers' thousands to defend their labor rights, in the commemoration of May 1, marked by a general atmosphere of economic crisis, mainly in nations of the European Union (EU). This day of the work it was marked by multitudinous protests and manifestations of social and union dissatisfaction in the world. In Europe, the mobilizations were developed so much in nations as Spain and Greece like in rich and prosperous countries, among them France and Germany. In these capitals of the world the main labor center stations condemned the adjustment programs and cutting of social benefits undertaken by the governments from Athens, and Madrid.

In our continent, the nurtured concentrations were added to diverse expressions, as the student movement, in Chile, or the different versions of Occupy Wall Street in several cities of The States. For that it makes to Mexico, thousands of having unionized of independent union organizations and employees of the sector health, electricians, operators, university students, teachers, and employees of Mexicana, among others manifested their fill in the face of the violence, the unemployment, the underemployment and the tiny wages of most from who they still receive a regular remuneration.

In spite of the heterogeneity and the diversity of those mobilizations, all have as common denominator the it reject a global economic model that, position in emergency situation and even in periods of relative "stability ", it sacrifices the well-being of the populations in a desire of appeasing “to the markets" whose application has been translated, in recent decades, in liquidation of the productive activities, that is to say the factor that generates wealth in the economy. If we speak of 'to appease markets’ has that this denomination is a euphemism that designates the voracity of the transnational financial capitals.

They displease social evident
In Italy, where the unemployment has been shot, the three big unions of the country denounced the first minister's reformations Mario Monti, in meetings made in Rome, Turin and Rieti, among other cities. The unions organized a great concert in Rome after the manifestations to request to the government more it helps for the youths before the current crisis, while in Turin the demonstrators accused the mayor of not making enough to create work positions, after that which they registered some incidents with the police.

Such an economic strategy that desolated social environments in Latin American countries in the past, and in more recent times in outlying nations of the old continent, as Athens, it has at the moment in Madrid, as: the Spanish Mariano Rajoy, in which speaks to their people of social adjustments and economic and labor reformations “every Friday", the society doesn't seem to have, in the immediate, more alternative horizon that to suffer new cuttings as regards education and health, a bigger setback in the State of well-being that had been come building from the end of Franco's dictatorship, and a worsening of the unemployment in that country that at the moment affects to more than five million people.

An International report of the Work points out that in spite of the negative impact that they have those measures in the re-activation of the collapsed economies. The politicians of austerity rushed “to tranquilize to the financial markets” are “counteractive” and they spread “to deepen the labor crisis and they could even cause a recession in Europe", what they already suffer the Mediterranean nations extending. The Bank of Spain has given to know (5/1/12) the figures in the first trimester of the year, in spite of the ruling ultraconservative's efforts Popular Party “to court to the markets", a massive flight of foreign capital was reported that overcame 61 thousand million Eurus, what locates the strange investment in the economy of that country in the lowest index in the recent history: 37.54 percent.

The public and social services are dismantled
Unfortunately in Mexico, one lives a similar situation. To the inveterate persecution of independent unions and the persistence of the corporate and authoritarian institutional controls in labor matter, plus a social and economic environment in that the number of unemployed ascends to 8.7 millions (Center of Disciplinary Analysis of the UNAM), in which the loss of the purchasing power of the real wage ascends to 42 percent in so far in the present administration, and in the one that the intents persist to collapse, the historical labor conquests reached by the workers in the mark of the work’s law or in its case for a way of the facts.

In the context of the social dissatisfaction, the president Giorgio Napolitano recognized that the country crosses an economic crisis that will last years and that the imperative is the growth that allows creating employments for teenagers. Portugal, it is also hit by the crisis and it carries out measured of austerity, like in Lisbon the workers demanded growth, employments and social justice. The disastrous circumstance labor present is a main cause of the growth of the poverty and of the deepening of the inequality, and in nations like the Mexican, an element that impact directly in the proliferation of criminal expressions and violence uncontrolled. Before such circumstances, the surprising thing is not, in any event that multiply the samples of indignation like those that were expressed all over the world, but rather these are not more recurrent and have not derived, up to now, in a widespread with out of governability. (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 5-6, May 2, 2012)