Since the demonstration in Barcelona on May 1, Workers’ Day, the Comuns Sumar candidate, Jéssica Albiach, has demanded a more active role for the Generalitat of Catalonia in policies related to the labor market.
“We want a Labor department that carries out active occupation policies, that not only follows what the Ministry of Labor does,” he said, comparing Esquerra’s policies with those of Sumar’s leader and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz. . “Esquerra hasn’t done much, going full speed,” she said.
In an informative contact, Albiach has sent a message to try to drag Sumar’s vote in the last Congressional elections towards the commons in the next Parliamentary elections. “I call on all those people who have been protected and benefited by the measures of the Ministry of Labor of Yolanda Díaz to vote for the Comuns on May 12, because we will protect them from the Government of the Generalitat,” he said. said recalling that some of these state policies have been carried out “overcoming the resistance of the PSOE” and praising, among other issues, the increase in the interprofessional minimum wage.
The Sumar brand is not going through its best moment after the results of the elections in Galicia and the Basque Country, but the common people understand that the figure of the second vice president arouses sympathy in Catalonia. That is why they have not stopped claiming her role in the pre-campaign and electoral campaign, with visits by Yolanda Díaz to l’Hospitalet de Llobregat last weekend and another planned next Sunday in Tarragona.
Coinciding with the proclamations of the main unions, Albiach has also advocated cutting the working day. “More than 100 years ago, Catalonia led the law to protect the eight-hour work day. Now is the time to start reducing it,” she proclaimed, accompanied by members of her candidacy and councilors and supporters of her political space who have also attended the demonstration. .
According to the Comuns Sumar candidate, reducing the working day “improves productivity, improves the mental and physical health of workers and helps achieve full employment.” For Albiach, 12-M Catalunya will choose between two productive models: “That of precariousness and that of the commons, where we want to reduce the working day.”
