specialized movements of Catholic Action for Workers World Evangelization: YCW (Young Christian Workers), MTC (Christian Working Women) and HOAC (Hermandad Obrera Catholic Action), in celebration of International Workers' Day, we want to be close to the joys and anxieties of workers, especially from those who are unemployed or working conditions support that preclude a decent life.
impoverishment real situations and dehumanization suffered by the working world today are a consequence largely of financial speculation and excessive selfishness of those who manage the mechanisms of financial institutions. A self-driven capitalist economic system and intensity that has penetrated into society through consumption, causing a serious crisis of ethics, food, ecological and humanitarian ....
We can approach the reality of unemployment, poverty, marginalization, social exclusion and precariousness recalling that in 2000, in Spain, the situation was as follows: The 2,179,500 people unemployed workers , The 3,804,500 people with temporary contracts and The 1,168,100 workers with part-time employment (mostly, it's hiring "forced", especially women, who accept it because no other work better.) Thousands of workers (especially youth and women) find jobs for only short-term assignments and easy dismissal. The current crisis could have a positive aspect if the same outbreak proposals that would help us to organize society to serve the common good, and at the heart of the economic activity of individuals and the rights of the poor.
Considering the workers in the various forms of economy could add thousands more to the wide border insecurity. Unemployment grew in the last quarter of 2008 at 609,000 people. The total number of unemployed stood at 3,207,900, an increase of 1,280,300 people in the past 12 months. This gives us an idea of \u200b\u200bthe magnitude of the problem, especially if we think through many of these workers enter the only source of income in the family.
data are confirmed Survey (LFS) of the National Statistics Institute (INE). The unemployment rate exceeds 20% in first quarter year and reached 20.05%, 1.22 points higher than the previous quarter. During the first three months left in the English economy to 286,000 unemployed people now are a total of 4,612,700 unemployed. The number of unemployed increased by 602,000 people over the past 12 months.
Canary present situation continues to be less severe, in contrast, over 90% of the contracts signed that young canaries were temporary and / or precarious. Canary is the youth unemployment rate highest in Spain, a 22'78% are people aged between 16 and 24 years. " The total of unemployed in Canary April-May 2010 is 257,801 people .
For Islands Fuerteventura: 11,101; LANZAROTE: 16,693, Gran Canaria: 112,639; TENERIFE: 105,299; La Gomera: 2,025; LA PALMA: 9194; THE IRON: 851
A data Funny, all precarious jobs created in Spain since 2000 until today have been 3804500 + 1168100 = 4972600 people and unemployment in this quarter of 2010 is 4612700 people . So all this job insecurity was created thanks to the numerous grants that the state and the European Union has been providing companies and, incidentally, when aid stopped coming is when unemployment began to grow (years 2006 to 2007, two years before the outbreak of the crisis) ... unemployment not generated the financial crisis but the bad contracts. The conclusion we draw is that companies have used 80% of state aid received as benefits and only 20% have invested to create this kind of precarious and flexible employment trash, etc ... Now that we have lost financial aid do Estadoy blackmail or European Union pouring into the streets to all flights for precarious workers that the state gives them more money ... Meanwhile, the Government launched the proposal to extend retirement beyond age 65 and a business leader proposes socio-royalty contracts of employment of young. And do not forget that according to the report FOESSA VI in 2008, Spain is a country where 19% of the population lives below the poverty line.
The current situation should open our eyes and hearts to the need for profound changes in our society and way of understanding and organizing the economy, being aware that another world is possible, and that we can fix it if we account of justice, equality and fraternity that we should like brothers, sons and daughters of one God.
Considering the workers in the various forms of economy could add thousands more to the wide border insecurity. Unemployment grew in the last quarter of 2008 at 609,000 people. The total number of unemployed stood at 3,207,900, an increase of 1,280,300 people in the past 12 months. This gives us an idea of \u200b\u200bthe magnitude of the problem, especially if we think through many of these workers enter the only source of income in the family.
data are confirmed Survey (LFS) of the National Statistics Institute (INE). The unemployment rate exceeds 20% in first quarter year and reached 20.05%, 1.22 points higher than the previous quarter. During the first three months left in the English economy to 286,000 unemployed people now are a total of 4,612,700 unemployed. The number of unemployed increased by 602,000 people over the past 12 months.
Canary present situation continues to be less severe, in contrast, over 90% of the contracts signed that young canaries were temporary and / or precarious. Canary is the youth unemployment rate highest in Spain, a 22'78% are people aged between 16 and 24 years. " The number of unemployed registered at employment offices in the Canary Islands in March 2009 was 238,344 people, according to the Ministry of Labour.
The male unemployment stood at the end of March at 120,932 and 117,412 women get to.
the total of unemployed in the Canary Islands, 29,956 are under 25 years [of which 16,359 are men and 13,597 women].
For Islands Fuerteventura: 11,101; LANZAROTE: 16,693, Gran Canaria: 112,639; TENERIFE: 105,299; La Gomera: 2,025; LA PALMA: 9194; THE IRON: 851
A data Funny, all precarious jobs created in Spain since 2000 until today have been 3804500 + 1168100 = 4972600 people and unemployment in this quarter of 2010 is 4612700 people . So all this job insecurity was created thanks to the numerous grants that the state and the European Union has been providing companies and, incidentally, when aid stopped coming is when unemployment began to grow (years 2006 to 2007, two years before the outbreak of the crisis) ... unemployment not generated the financial crisis but the bad contracts. The conclusion we draw is that companies have used 80% of state aid received as benefits and only 20% have invested to create this kind of precarious and flexible employment trash, etc ... Now that we have lost financial aid do Estadoy blackmail or European Union pouring into the streets to all flights for precarious workers that the state gives them more money ... The current situation should open our eyes and hearts to the need for profound changes in our society and way of understanding and organizing the economy, being aware that another world is possible, and that we can fix it if we account of justice, equality and fraternity that we should like brothers, sons and daughters of one God.
As believers, followers of Jesus of Nazareth, we propose that for us, and for a country that wants to organize humanly "the first capital to be safeguarded and valued is the man, the whole person" (Caritas in Veritate, 25). It is therefore necessary to extend social protection of people, especially those with fewer resources, and rethink how to share the work they have , and live with dignity does not depend solely on having a salaried job. "How can lengthen the active life of a person to 67 years if younger than 20, 30 and 40 years can not enter the labor market ?
should seriously reflect on the need to grow in the practice of solidarity in our society, questioning the personal attitudes and laws becoming more restrictive and exclusionary about welcoming our immigrant brothers and sisters . We must overcome the myopic approach of seeing reality only from their own individual interests, so that everyone can aspire to a decent life with decent jobs and access to resources and basic social services. In this sense, the axis of the next labor reform over economic criteria should be the protection of the rights of working people and their families On 1 May is a Party to assert the centrality of work in life people and calling on governments to put in the center of its concerns the joys and anxieties of society, especially the poor of our country and the world's workers.
YCW Young Christian Workers Employed Women
MTC
MTC
Christian Fellowship of Catholic Action Workers http://www.hoac.es/ HOAC
