The large agricultural organizations, Asaja, COAG and UPA, have declined to participate in the meeting to which the Ministry of Inclusion and Social Security had called them for this coming Tuesday, to address the problem of the lack of labor in the countryside. The reason given by these organizations is agenda reasons, but the decision has not been liked at all by the ministry, which regrets “not finding the same predisposition on the part of our interlocutors, since we firmly believe that dialogue tables are the best framework.” to present different points of view and reach consensus.”
The Ministry of Inclusion and Social Security insists that social dialogue is a way to explore the paths that can be adopted and that are useful in the current context. This dialogue “is the only way we understand to manage social conflicts and the only formula we conceive to make politics that provides solutions to people’s problems.”
Minister Elma Saiz launched the call for this meeting this Thursday in a public intervention, and focused on finding solutions to the problem of lack of labor suffered by the countryside. She estimated that 100,000 jobs have been lost in the agricultural sector in the last ten years, and proposed using immigration policy to facilitate the filling of these vacancies. Although she did not specify the formulas, she proposed doing it through a “circular, orderly and regular” migration, and gave the strawberry trees in Huelva as an example of circular migration.
From the agricultural organizations, they affirm that it is just a matter of agenda and that there is a will to meet. “Yes, we want to, there is no problem in meeting,” they say from COAG and from UPA, but they point out that on Tuesday the 13th the general secretaries of the three organizations have commitments that they cannot move, and that they are waiting for the ministry to propose it to them. another date. They also insist that “it is not true that we did not want to”, but rather that they have asked for a postponement because that day there are several important tractor units called. They indicate that they have requested a postponement and that they have requested other dates.
