They order the markets

This week that is finished will be remembered by the Spanish socialist party like the horrible week, the week in which he announced the change of political and economic course.

And it seems that the culprit of this change of course is the almighty market. It has been enough that the financial markets were beginning sowing doubts about the risks of the Spanish debt, so that the change of direction was carried out. The consequences are already known, elevation of the retirement age and threat of increase of the calculation of years, reduction of the public expenditure in 50.000 million euros in three years and to finish the week the proposal of labor reform.

I already made the first comment about the reform of the pensions and I imagine that it will be necessary to return again on this topic and the reduction of the public expenditure, in expectation of his concision, it is sure that it will have clear influence in the social expense, by what again the most disadvantaged will be most harmed of the exit of the crisis.

It seems that what less cloud of dust has raised is the proposal of labor reform, which seems that of entry it has satisfied to all trade unions and businessmen. And the fact is that the proposal gives to low the price of the dismissal and the opposite, depending on whom I thought. Except in scarce topics, the proposal only enters in a generic way the alternatives the current state of the labor market.

There are two aspects on which the proposal of the government is slightly more concrete: the measurements to reduce the temporality and the reduction of the day.

With regard to the first one the Government bets for promoting the contract of promotion of the indefinite hiring, created in 1997, and that has a severance pay of 33 days for worn out year, opposite to the temporary hiring. But it is not enough to encourage this type of contract, of echo his use is well scarce, but of the diverse forms of temporary hiring make little profitable, because while there exists the possibility of doing temporary contracts and while it exists and there is allowed the picaresque novel of the indefinite linking of labor contracts, this one management our will not decide for promoting the indefinite employment.

With regard to the day reduction, the bet is for changing the current model of reduction of staff across ERE's, for other that implies only working day reduction, making compatible the day reduction with the precepción of the proportional part of the welfare. That is to say the implantation of the German model of the ERE's. At first it is a positive measurement because he would avoid many people the drama of the unemployment presents itself. But: has anybody thought about the picaresque novel of the Spanish businessmen?

This has not done anything more that to start and I in contrast to the social speakers am not optimistic at all and it am not because it seems to me that it is going to be very difficult to bring together the interests of the parts without rights of the workpeople getting injured. It does not occur to me how, for example, the government is going to convince the management one so that they use the contract of promotion of the indefinite hiring and resign from the temporary hiring without anything in return. I do not believe in the miracles.

And that anybody thinks that only with a labor reform it will leave of the crisis, this one can help according to which be his final content, but while they are not corrected it causes them that they motivated the crisis in Spain, we will not go out of her and it means at least two things: the fluency again from the credit to the small-scale enterprises and to the consumption and the change of the economic model. But this is another history.

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Quintacolumnista

He could not believe it when it was sailing along the Public newspaper in Internet, he was thinking that he was a sensationalist holder, when I read the news, the puzzlement transformed in anger.

The holder was saying the following thing: Fidalgo: "To delay the retirement is of common sense". Tremendous, truth. But it is much more tremendous what the ex-General Secretary of CC.OO affirms. According to Fidalgo the proposal of the Government is "motivated" and considers that to press against the solution of a problem "that sees the whole world", as they are going to do the trade unions, "will not be well seen". Fidalgo must think that his kingdom is already not of this world and that therefore that one 80 % of the citizenship that is against of the increase of the age of the retirement or they do not exist or do not count because they do not have the knowledge that gives having been for eight years the General Secretary of the first trade union of the country.

For Fidalgo to lengthen the period of calculation of the pensions beyond the current 15 years would have a "minimal" impact on the expectation of the pensions. "There is going to be a progressive tendency to extend the calculation base to the whole labor life", he says. Skylight that the management one, the banking, the insurers and the political right of the country agree with this position, which the pensions degrade every day a little more so that this way the already scarce familiar saving has to be invested in pensions deprived to be able to guarantee worthy minim pension, but this must not be the position of a trade union one. The position of a trade union one must be that of proposing and defending alternatives that allow to support and increase the rights of the workpeople and not justify the positions of those who try to degrade the already degraded labor situation of the most disadvantaged.

And alternatives they are ahílas, what it must spend is that Fidalgo already does not read even the documents and proposals that there prepares the secretary of Social security and Complementary Social Forecast of her own trade union or does not listen even to the opinions of the person in charge of this secretariat, Carlo Bravo, and that I reproduce next:

“The proposal that the Government has sent the Commission of the Agreement of Toledo and to the table of social dialogue of delaying the legal retirement age it is provided with the unequivocal CC.OO rejection. The retirement middle age has being late in an effective way, reaching 63,8 years in the set of the system and the 63,2 in the General Diet, coming closer to and give legally of access to the retirement at the age of 65. C C OO, which takes many years studying the evolution of the public system of pensions, he believes that there exist measurements and margin of performance adapted to keep on advancing in this approach, of an effective and voluntary way, reinforcing and increasing the incentives today existing so that those persons who wish it or need to delay the retirement age. For it, we push the proposal of the Government back across imperative measurements of delay of the legal age of retirement up to 67 years”

I hope that this alone should be a personal opinion of Fidalgo and that the rest of his partners of candidacy should feel compromised with the interests of the workpeople and should defend without fissures the official position of the trade union that is not different that to fight for a worthy retirement for all the workers.

So much the pitcher goes to the source of FAES that ends up by breaking.

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Rajoy has a plan

It has been a length but finally Rajoy has decided to reveal his best kept secret, he has a plan. But do not think that it is a plan in the sexual area. No, his is a plan to finish with the economic crisis.

The plan for the time being has two paws, the first one of them refers to the civil servants: "I had frozen the salary to the officials”, says Rajoy. Since plan goes, not that was new; this is what exists I throw the P.P. when the power has been. That there is economic crisis, since one takes drastic measures, first the salary of the officials and later the pension of the pensioners. That when the weak cows come it is necessary to be united, that the businessman also see his benefits limited.

And: which is the second paw? Since Rajoy says that there is no solidarity between the workpeople that some have fixed contracts reinforced with 45 days of indemnification and many others only have possible contracts with zero or 8 days of indemnification. And the best thing to solve this lack of solidarity is to do level table: fixed contract with increasing indemnification from zero day until the beginning of the contract up to 33 days when the contract is in force 6 years.

But that intelligent is Marianin. With this foolish talk it does not do if not to low the price of the dismissal. Because it is me who says, if immense most of the temporary contracts have duration lower than one year: what difference is there between the current possible contracts and the one that Rajoy promises? Since none because the businessmen would keep on dismissing before the year and the workpeople would keep on receiving the minimal severance pay and in the long term it was eliminating of the indefinite contract with 45 days of indemnification and all fixed ones but with an indemnification of shit (pardon).

Officials and workpeople: you are warned, to vote for Rajoy means that they are going to freeze the salary to you or to condemn to the labor instability with dismissal cost almost zero to you. Later only you will be able only to claim the main armorer.

Seen the best seen would be that the Rajoy plan was sexual

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In support to Baltasar Garzón

Reproduced text of the blog Felipe's REFLECTIONS.

CONSCIOUS of the unfortunate image that this generation of Spaniards and Spanish might give before the History, in view of the judicial process tackled against the judge who had the valor of investigating the responsibility of the pro-Franco dictatorial diet, not in search of revenge, but to try to repair - as far as possible - the families of the hundreds of thousands of citizens victimized (between murdered, tortured, kidnapped, silenced and exiled),
WORRIED by the precedent that it might sit, see how it is operated against any member of the magistracy that dares to question the validity or the validity of a few instruments of impunity that were drafted in the entrails of the proper pro-Franco diet,

EXPERT in the course in the events, that apparently, they might turn out to be in an imminent separation of the magistrate a judge BALTASAR WAITER of the judicial career,
WE EXPRESS our formal support to the magistrate Spanish judge BALTASAR WAITER, who these days is an object of a serious campaign of defamation and political pursuit, promoted from sectors ultra conservative, after impelling a process in search of Truth, Justice and Repair for the victims of the pro-Franco dictatorship. Our solidarity for those who, like him, act with valor opposite to the crimes of lesa humanity. For him, our recognition.

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Phototherapy (38) The Filae temple

The Filae temple was placed in an island in the river Nile to eleven km to the south of Asuán. The island of Filae was famous for the temples raised during the Ptolemaic periods and Roman.

The Filae temple was dedicated to the cult of the goddess Isis being supported his worship until it was prohibited in times of Justiniano I, 535 A.D. The set re-turned into Christian church dedicated to the dedication of San Esteban, until the XIIth century, epoch in which the Islamist creed had already been imposed like majority religion of the Egyptian population.

The Filae temple is one of three temples ptolemáicos that better survive, along with that of Edfu and that of Dendera. This temple has someone characteristic diferenciadoras, the first one is that it is not constructed along a rectilinear but broken axis, inside the temple numerous reliefs are observed with Christian motives on the ancient Egyptian reliefs and even a Christian altar and finally in him are the last hieroglyphic inscriptions. Many of the Egyptian reliefs were destroyed by the Coptic Christians who were considering these images like pagans.

The last hieroglyphic inscription of the one that has evidence was recorded in the walls of the door erected in times of the emperor Adriano, placed in the enclosure of the temple of the Isis; it was recorded on August 24 of 394, and Mandulis was consisting of an invocation to the god kushita. And the last text written in demotic Egyptian was dated on the eleventh of December of the year 452; it is a question of a phrase identical with the walls of the temple of the Isis.

The island of File remained plunged in last century under the waters dammed by the prey of Asuán, although under patronage of the UNESCO the temples were dismantled, moved and reconstructed in the near Agilkia islet.

Photos of the temple of Filae

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The week of the agreement

Of the week horribilis there has passed to the week of the agreement, the week in which businessmen and trade unions agreed in the collective bargaining.

One more important agreement therefore it can level in the collective bargaining of the sectors and the companies than for the content itself of the agreement. An agreement that is content like a frame for the renegotiation of the collective agreements, because recommendations are a most of his content on the matters that must contain the future collective agreements.

It is true that the most concrete aspect refers to the wage rise and that this one can be considered to be how scarce, but it has the virtue of which desmarcar of the orientations of the national organisms (Spanish Bank) and international (IMF) that wage clippings were supporting while the economic crisis lasts. The clauses of wage review are going to guarantee that at least the purchasing power of the current wages is supported. And I say that at least it should support the purchasing power, because the reality day by day demonstrates that the businessmen when it goes over to the concrete thing are more pragmatic and value more social peace than a point of more in the wage rise. The average wage rises agreed during January have reached 1,62 % when the orientation of the CEOE was that they were not rising of 1 %.

Well it is true that the companies that demonstrate economic problems, can be taken down in the economic agreement, but with three conditions first that demonstrate reliably his problems, second when the economic problems excel themselves the workpeople will recover the lost and third purchasing power will turn out to be forced to support the employment.

The second aspect of the agreement is the employment, affecting in elements like the "expediency of determining the global volume of temporary hiring", fixing a species of quotas of possible personnel; "to replace the culture of the dismissal with that of the internal flexibility" or what is the same to solve the problem of the surpluses of employment for methods that do not mean dismissals; or the struggle against the labor temporality, promoting the indefinite hiring, avoiding the chaining of successive temporary contracts and fixing in agreement the percentage of temporary employment.

Finally it is a useful agreement to level the way of the collective bargaining during the next three years. We must not forget that in addition to the big companies, where in general an important trade union implantation exists and therefore major potential and organization to confront the collective bargaining in his ambience, the majority of the workpeople belongs to the small and medium company, where the trade union organization is minor enough and the possibilities of positive agreements are much more difficult. It is not necessary to forget that the agreement nonexistence during 2009 kept blocked the collective bargaining of most of the collective agreements that had to be checked during this year. It is in this sense as there has to be valued the agreement signed by the social speakers.

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Concentrated prepensioners

The prepensioners, sometimes, also we have problems derived fundamentally from the nonperformance or unilateral modification of ours you hire with the companies to which we would belong.

This is the case of the prepensioners of Phone companhy of Spain, which we have seen as the company was modifying unilaterally the contract of signed desvinculación. In this contract it was made possible that voluntarily it was possible to remain linked to the medical insurance, paying a percentage of the cost of the same one (60 %).

The company decides unilaterally that instead of applying the increase of the medical IPC to the tariffs there interferes the system of copayment of the medical care. This that might have a certain logic, change the increase of 2009 into a system of copayment, into what the one who more uses the service pays more, has his pitfall. First that is a unilateral decision of the company that changes in a unilateral way the agreed into our contracts of desvinculación and second and more important than the company with this modification it loads the entire cost of the increase to them preretired and of step there saves itself the increase of the increase that she would have to pay.

The cost of the medical insurance of the active personnel is in charge of the company, with what the company saves 6 % of the increase of this year and also 6 % of 40 % of the cost of the insurance policy of the prepensioners. Saving that loads straight the prepensioners across the establishment of the prepayment.

And this is the reason for which the prepensioners of Phone companhy of Spain we have concentrated today, summoned by CC.OO., opposite to the building of Phone companhy of Big Route 28 in Madrid, to protest for the unilateral decision of the company to modify our desvinculación contract and to demand the retreat of the system of copayment and the beginning of negotiations with the legal representatives of the workpeople to agree the form in which there has to be applied the increase of the costs of the medical insurance. During the concentration we have done delivery of a writing in which we detail our disagreements and claim the retreat of the copayment.

Photos of the concentration

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