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"There is an urgent need to paralyse any economic activity that is not an essential service"

  • On 19 March, by means of a video recording, the secretary general of LAB denounced that this is a customised lockdown for employers and that if companies have paralysed their economic activity it has been because of pressure from trade unions and workers. In the following lines you have part of the Aranburu message:

22 March 2020 - 10:09
Garbiñe Aranburu. Argazkia: EITB.

From the health authorities we are told that the priority is to prevent the spread of the virus. To this end, we insist on the need to paralyse any economic activity that is not an essential service for the citizens.

They've taken the police and the army to limit and to keep an eye on our ability to move. In the meantime, however, many companies keep production above any other consideration. Neither Osalan, nor INSL, nor the Labor Inspectorate are able to stop the activity in the face of a serious risk and probability of contagion.

Maintaining business activity without proper preventive measures is irresponsible. In companies where prevention is not guaranteed, the situation is unsustainable and very tense. Nor are we in the same position in the face of this crisis. There are women who have to continue working because their work is fundamental: domestic workers, residential workers, home help, cleaning staff, supermarket staff... but without the necessary preventive measures.

Anyone who works without adequate preventive measures is putting their health and that of others at risk: This is something that we cannot accept as a society, we cannot naturalize a situation that can be fined to us for a small lap with our children, and for companies to continue working under these conditions.

Companies that have stopped working have done so because of pressure from trade unions and workers. We have no other way to go on fighting. In the face of a tailor-made lockdown of the employer, any production that is not essential must be stopped.

In companies, if our health is not guaranteed, we will use all the legal instruments and union actions at our disposal to ensure the health of working people.

In recent days, citizenship is responding in an exemplary manner to the growing demand for individual responsibility of people. Hospitality, small business, small business... The fire has been closed and, in many cases, even before there was a ban on the child ' s liability. But where is the social responsibility of companies? CEOE, Confesbask, CEN, which represents the interests of large companies, bear no responsibility and are also trying to transfer the cost of this crisis to the workers and to the public purse.


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