There are draftsmen who are able to make a deeper social and political complaint with a single image or phrase. Last week El Roto, draftsman of an important Madrid newspaper, published a person’s image, with a tone of anger and saying: “Create jobs! How many rights they take away from us in your name!” Governments are dedicated to talking about the need to create jobs and want us to believe that their labour reforms are achieving that.

Yes, but what employment are we talking about and at the expense of what rights? In 2015, more precarious, temporary and temporary contracts were registered than ever in the Spanish state as a whole, according to official data. The internines beat the record and reached 17.07 million, compared with 6.4 million at the time, of which 5.7 million were provisional. The average duration of contracts in 2006 was 79 days, while in 2015 it was reduced to 53.4 days. Before the crisis, a temporary contract in industry had an average duration of six months and now barely reaches two months. In other words, eight years ago two contracts were signed a year ago to cover a non-structural job in a workshop, now six are needed.

Young people cannot undertake a life project, stabilize relationships, buy a home or rent it. Families in which one of their members is unemployed or has a low wage cannot cope with the mortgage and few are evicted. Almost a third of the Spanish State is at risk of poverty or exclusion, with 60% less income than the average of 663 euros per household. That is current employment: precarious employment. And there are the rights that have taken us away in their name.