In recent times are witnessing a debate on the need to reform the system pension using a language which is deliberately alarmist (drastic decreases of surplus imbalance in Social Security accounts, etc.), a something that we have been seeing over the year 2010, first referred to the balance of 2009 and then at the end of November, also in 2010. What nobody has explained however, is that in 1999 there was no fund in which to store and administer the Social Security surplus, which was sold as, and yet the political class and business seeds it seemed the pension system. It also follows
cutting where you normally among the workers, employed or unemployed, and generally among the most disadvantaged. Proof of this is that while, have approved a series of new tax benefits for companies, which for 2011 will will cost the public coffers 230 million euros has been agreed to remove the aid of 426 euros unemployed without benefits or subsidies, has approved an increase in income tax and other VAT imposed that affect both very directly to all employees ... All this without forgetting the more aggressive Education Reform for workers throughout the recent history of this country, which seriously harms the collective bargaining, dismissals made cheaper and encourages part-time work with This implies that wage instability.
And now I also loaded the pension system, perhaps because Spain is a country where the bank makes less business with private pension plans, and following the prevailing political crisis is now, should take advantage of this golden excuse to make that public money be spent in private as. Maybe because on account of the crisis, which the States have become carte blanche, we are witnessing the liquidation of the few rights and social security workers who had, in what is one of the worst economic liberalization processes viewed here and in the rest of Europe.
To that end we are told that the current pension system is unsustainable. Should therefore clarify some aspects:
1. During the last three decades the Social Security coffers have never stopped being in surplus. Said otherwise, during the last thirty years the amount reported in total from contributions that pay for Social Security has been made over the total expenditure on pensions, allowances and benefits of all kinds. In 2010 the surplus was of 11,100 million. The Government created in 2000 the Reserve Fund of Social Security, which has been "saving" part of this surplus. In the year of its inception the fund had 604 million euros in 2009 reached the 60,022 million.
According to latest annual report (2009) Directorate General Insurance and Pension Fund under the Ministry of Finance, the weight of English Pension Funds on the economy stood at 8.1% of GDP, one of the lowest rates of among the states included in the sample, which includes mostly rich countries. In fact, the weighted average of all fees resulting from sampling gives a 67.1% of GDP compared to 8.1 in Spain.
2. We should remember that the labor reform (35/2010 of 17 September) will increase the intermittency of contributions to the pension, the increase in temporary employment and discontinuous trajectories (temporary employment - Unemployment - permanent employment - ERO - unemployment - temporary employment).
also the tendency of the timing will be an "age effect" (the storms are coming at a young age tend to have permanent contracts, statistically speaking) to be a "generation effect" extending the temporary at any age economic sector and the result of de-regulation in the labor market, especially the recent ones. What will cause the resulting pension upon retirement is misery.
3. Both increase the retirement age and increasing years to calculate the pension rights are a clear attack made workers throughout their struggles: the first option would be two years less pension working two years (or what is the same: a loss of four years), the second cause included many sections of the working paths reducing the board last staple.
4. With the reform therefore seek two objectives: a) cut the "deferred wage", ie the wage paid by contributions and is returned to retirement and b) forcing the state to promote the privatization of the same (regardless that stimulates other private roads). To the extent that the working class see that public pension that is very low, will consider taking private pension plans. For this slow track in which financial capital can sink your teeth in a capital that was too important "off market" in the hands of the Social Security and the State. Moreover, let us not forget that private pensions are still subject to significant tax deductions for many years, and these deductions are never touched.
Our alternatives:
If you come to have financial problems, may be financed with taxes as well as in other countries: taxes on capital ; remove maximum contribution to high incomes (making a fairer redistribution of income) and abolish deductions for private pension systems . promote the incorporation of women into the labor market (eg better maternity leave / paternity), a rate similar to other European countries, the number of cotitzadors increase.
Besides the short-medium term measures that we have mentioned, the working class must, in parallel, to establish a radical critique of the capitalist system that is placing the foot of the sacrosanct purchased with the approval of the government shift. The workers We follow the path of struggle and mobilization outlined the 29-S, which not a few places and sectors exceeded the official unions lukewarm in their mobilizations, in short, to setting the foundations for a profound change of system for another more just and equal, a system for people and not money.
We respond to these attacks, so on 27 January, General Strike! I struggle, day by day. While the trade unions CCOO and UGT confront the game make him the government, the CNT-AIT is positioned firmly against the pension reform and labor reform and other cuts and so always pay crisis of rich.
CNT-AIT Catalonia and the Balearic Islands
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What rights do I have a strike?
We gathered this text from other unions, which may be useful for more than one.
The minimum services are legal?
The only minimum legal services are those published in the Official Gazette or the regional government concerned. This newsletter comes out explicitly mentioned
company name and department must make a minimum service. The patron, a letter, you must mention the exact point of the BOE to justify the minimum service.
The establishment of minimum services outside the government indicated it considered a serious attack on right to strike and is punishable.
My boss asks me if I strike. I should I respond?
NO. The employee notified his company that does not strike when going to work.
This decision can be taken at the last minute and had no effect if, before said otherwise.
I pressed my head so you do not strike. What do I do?
the right to strike is regarded as a fundamental right of citizens and, as such, especially protected
by the Constitution. If a boss or employer coerces an employee to not do what
Strike is committing a very serious crime. He has to stop and report. Please contact
Association Section of your company that is trusted more.
this day I have to guard. I do it?
NO. In a strike, legally, not performed any work, whether usual or occasional intervention by a guard. In fact, one of the mechanisms of a strike is that the absence of our work has implications for their businesses. We are not dispensable for Employers? Do not treat us like dirt and fired at the first opportunity? To prove how unnecessary are the "resources". If you are mobile or portable guard gives him the phone company or just off the 24-hour strike.
not work the hours I will have recovered?
at all. What can legally deduct the pattern is the days of strike pay.
and strike, will it help?
everything we have achieved as workers we are never given. Since the nineteenth century slavery any improvement has been through boot mobilizations and struggles of workers in different countries. All
this time we also stopped numerous attacks through our mobilization. Sometimes it is not enough and there is no guarantee of victory assured that the opponent is very powerful, but we have something very clear: If we fight, we grind today and tomorrow sinister.
History is not just a book, is the evidence that struggling recover the dignity and security while doing nothing buy submission, fear and exploitation wild.
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