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Confesbask Marketing Operation
Juan Mari Arregi 2016ko apirilaren 27a

Confesbask made public his new model of labour relations at a public event held in Bilbao. With the support of the Basque Government and hundreds of companies, this employers’ lobby pretended to be a modern social agent trying to adapt to the current reality. However, the act has been nothing more than a mere marketing operation, a propaganda of the employers. By suggesting that it offers a new employment relationship, it wants to impose its philosophy and precarious working conditions in order to continue to accumulate benefits. Although employers do a lot of marketing and propaganda, we cannot forget that class struggle is not something of the past, but something that is in our society and in the deepest of companies.

The employer's operation talks about transparency and flexibility in labour relations, but in practice workers are repeatedly hidden from the real economic situation of the company. Flexibility, on the contrary, is only used to achieve more job insecurity. Behind this marketing and propaganda operation is the individualization of labor relations, the blocking of collective bargaining, the rejection of trade unions and works councils. Thus, they favor their monopoly to obtain benefits, delving into the politics of precariousness, while the public administration subsidizes them.

Precariousness and inequalities are enormous in the current socio-occupational situation, which, logically, creates competition between trade unions. For entrepreneurs and workers to live together in companies, a dialogue is needed that addresses the existing class struggle, in which not only information is shared, but also benefits and decisions.