The battery of measures, approved today by the Council of Ministers, demonstrates once again the radical change of direction of economic policy the Government has opted to assign to the continued pressure from international financial markets and institutions and neoliberal governments to the detriment of social and labor rights. removal in February 2011, the Prodi, the 426 euros that is received by the unemployed who have exhausted benefits and subsidies (even though the Government itself undertook to keep this service while the unemployment rate did not go below 17%) and may make absolutely vulnerable to 500,000 people between February and December 2011, which would join the million unemployed who do not have any benefit. This calculation is done taking into account the average monthly growth of beneficiaries to deplete monthly welfare benefit, which exceeds 40,000 people. A tremendously as unjust and incomprehensible that severely punish the groups that are worse off in our society.
UGT also considers that the announcement of the forthcoming adoption of the activity of the private placement is for commercial gain insight into the regressive and antisocial aspects of labor reform, imposed by the Government. With this measure, the Executive was subtracted from its responsibility to the unemployed and makes it easier for private companies to do business with unemployment. In contrast, for the union is necessary to bet on the strengthening and modernization of Public Employment Services and noted that, currently, in our country there are only an employee of the Public Employment Services for every 200 people unemployed, when the EU average does not reach a public employee for every 50 unemployed.
Moreover, the Council of Ministers made a new gift to employers adopting a new corporate tax reduction, even though experience shows that this measure has not worked so far or to turn the real economy or create jobs.
As the Ministry itself of Economics in its "Main indicators of economic and financial activity of the State", September 2010, the collection of corporation tax between 2008 and 2009 (September data) has been reduced by 21.3%, which This means a loss in revenue of 6,300 million euros. This decrease in revenue is not only due to inactivity productive but a gradual reduction of the real effective rate for companies (started to decline before the crisis) has increased from 24.5% in 2005 to 20% in 2007 and 18% in 2009. This continuing decline in revenue, to through corporate tax cuts, has only resulted in less revenue for the state, but has not been noticeable either in employment or economic activity.
Therefore, the further reduction of this tax will be another significant loss of income and affect, negatively, on the public deficit, the reduction is the priority of the government's economic policy, above economic recovery and employment.
To resolve this nonsense, the Government has approved another social decline, reflecting a diminishing of our public sector, partial privatization of AENA (49%) and the State Society of State Lotteries (by 30% .) This aims to obtain liquidity in the short term, but ultimately means giving up a stable income while going into the private capital management will have its corresponding "price" in the services provided by these public companies (because what moves private capital is profit, pure and simple, at the expense of whatever-templates quality service delivery, etc.).
Therefore, all these measures the Government cuts rubric of social policy, is carried away by the rush to please the financial markets and corporations, national and international returns to affect the unbalanced distribution of the sacrifice to end the crisis: those who always pay the workers and citizens in general, and that although they have not caused this crisis and are the main victims of it.
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