Mitxel Lakuntza: “The labor reform is worse than the previous one because it has the support of parties and unions”

The general secretary of ELA, False Lakuntza, has assured that the new labor reform is “worse” than the previous one because it has the support of the unions and the parties that make up the Spanish Government. In an interview on the show “Factory“from Euskadi Irratia and asked about the support that the text may receive, he stressed that both the PNV and EH Bildu have shown them in private, as they have done in public, their intention to maintain their firm position against the reform working until the end.

Asked about the possibility of the Congress of Deputies rejecting the labour reform, believes that a process of repeal of the labor reform in force. In this sense, he has insisted that ELA’s priority is to articulate a response against the labor reform with LAB.

He has insisted that if this reform is going to limit the types of contracts it is because there is jurisprudence. He has denounced that the problem in relation to the contracts is the lack of inspection: “There is no inspection, there is no follow-up and there are no penalties.” Likewise, he recalled that there have been no changes in relation to the layoffs and that the issue has not been on the table either.

Mitxel Lakuntza has attacked the PSOE and Unidas Podemos, the two parties that make up the coalition government in Spain, because in their electoral program they promised that they would repeal the legal reform and they have not complied with it. Has regretted that the dialogue tables are an “alibi” to breach the electoral programs: “The roundtables are traps for the unions and a treasure for the bosses.”

In full sixth wave of coronavirus contagions have increased considerably and Osakidetza has begun to emit sick leave systematically. Lakuntza assures that there are not enough resources and that is why they have resorted to this type of formula. Lakuntza believes that the Basque Government is improvising and making unilateral decisions to replace sick workers not only in Health, but also in Education.

The Basque Government ensures that in Osakidetza All the staff that could be hired have been hired, but the matter is different according to Lakuntza. In relation to this matter he has pointed out two things: on the one hand, the lack of planning and, on the other, the treatment received by health personnel.

The Department of Education The Basque Government has decided to temporarily suspend the Irale program for some 206 teachers and an Education teacher to take up their jobs. Lakuntza has criticized this decision, claiming that there are people willing to work on the Education lists.