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Prekarietatearen aurpegiak

Faces of precariousness

I am out of the labour market and old age does not look good

My name is Carlos Tobajas Casales, I am 54 years old and I come from Pamplona. I live in the Chantrea neighborhood with my wife Mertxe and my three daughters. Irune, Amaia and Ekhiñe. The crisis has left me unemployed. There are alternatives for creating a more supportive and collective economy, and we are working on this at the Pamplona Unemployed Assembly.

Itsaso Zubiria Etxeberria

16 January 2014

At the end of 2008, I lost my permanent seat. In 2001, we created a small commercial welding cooperative, but after seven years, we started to notice the decline. They started to delay payments, some companies that for us were important customers closed the doors, had to start with funding but the banks had cut off the free bar they had until then with the loans... We were unable to meet the firm's fixed costs and had to close. Since then, from time to time I have got some work through Temporary Work Companies, but I am already out of the labour market.

This economic cycle has caught me up in a bad time. I started working at the age of 19 and had several reconversions, but at the age of 54 I had to stay unemployed. Among all the unemployed there is a third in my own situation. The bad age is ours, not only because we have a low chance of immersing ourselves in the world of work, but because we have a black future for old age, taking into account the cutbacks and reforms being carried out.

We have to turn the individualistic system over and start looking for collective solutions. The distribution of employment is the motto we use in the Assembly of the Unemployed. We’ve been home without any kind of income for a while… Now my wife works eight hours a day and that’s the money she enters home. We adapt, but it is absolutely unfair that my partner works eight hours and I cannot work; it would be more logical for everyone to share it in four-hour days. It is better than creating jobs under precarious conditions than putting in place the means to make this type of distribution system possible.

We need to return to more sustainable forms of consumption, take advantage of local products and resources and start consuming responsibly. We live in an illogical economy: to produce as quickly as possible, to consume as quickly as possible. We have to learn to live according to what we have, without surviving our possibilities. The need for money that we have psychologically is much higher than we really need to live.

Thanks to what has touched me, I have had time to look at the situation today from a distance and another plane, the possibility of questioning the system. I already have the critical point of view, but encouraged by such a crude situation, I have given him two rounds. I feel that I am more aware of my actions: I reflect on the way of life we lead and I think of the following. What do we leave you with? The financial system in which we are immersed cannot last forever and we have to get rid of this wheel. We are still in time to do the maneuver and to open paths to the following.

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