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Gustavo Cortes union leaders (from left to right), Homes and Andres Godoy Ricardo insists the state must do more to help unemployed workers salmon and their families. Photo of Kendall Montgomery Leaders lambaste Labour Government-backed "law of Sandoval" Government efforts to assist the growing list of Chile's salmon unemployed workers to have done little to ease the crisis really deteriorating work, insist several of the major unions in the industry grown salmon and trout.
Beginning two years ago, the salmon industry's once-booming country fell into a depression in progress that has resulted in thousands of job cuts. President Michelle Bachelet
first addressed the issue last November, promised his government would be "very attentive to what happens and ready with all types of tools." "If anyone is to blame for all this, is workers, "she said. Five months later, of redundancies in the industry who fill up quickly and working groups bringing the streets of Puerto Montt, and Ancud (PT, December 10, 2008), the government finally announced a series of concrete measures, promising to spend roughly $ 9 million in direct job creation, teaching and learning of new skills of redundant workers and funding for small business offerings. The "salmon plan course was designed to help roughly 5,000 workers (PT, April 16).
The problem, says union leaders, is that the measures never saw the true scope of the crisis. Even when the plan was revealed, Salmon companies had already dropped between 10,000-15,000 jobs. The numbers have only risen since then. "According to (a recently aired TVN) special report, there are about 20,000 unemployed workers salmon. But government measures to help account for only 5,000, the "Central Workers Union (CUT) representative Jose Ortiz said the days of Patagonia.
"That means stop condemning 15,000 people to have no income at all. All you can do is move back to the field. Or go out and steal. I do not know. They have to live on something. "Ortiz was one of several labor leaders who traveled to Santiago on the week to increase awareness of just how critical the situation is in southern Chile's salmon-dependent - specifically in regions X and XI. Joining her were representatives of several industry associations, including the national federation of workers in the fishing industry (FETRAINPES) and the federation of workers Quellón (FETRAQ). Ortiz and colleagues describe the direction of the state government has been nothing more than a Band-Aid approach. Participants in training programs much-touted, for example, must survive the daily stipend of 3,000 pesos (U.S. $ 5.55), half for transport and half for lunch, President Ricardo explained FETAINPES Homes.
The "whole families are trying to live on that money," he said. Training programs also offer no guarantee of future employment. Employees "graduating" only to find still unemployed, according to Casas. Not all government jobs also will salmon workers, he said. The global financial crisis has pushed Chile's economy into recession together, meaning salmon employees laid-off now find yourself to compete not only with other workers in the industry, but with thousands of other job seekers as well. "For Of course we agree that government should help others as well, but when they promise to offer jobs to workers in the salmon, this work should really be for workers in the salmon, "said Casas. "When you go into the neighborhoods, when you talk to workers, you realize that the plan is working salmon horribly." Southern City Quellón Chiloé is an example, the Labor leaders explained. Where unemployment now stands at a staggering 50 percent, according to Mayor Ivan Haro Quellón. Desperate for some kind of government intervention, residents took the isolated fishing community May streets, blocking the Pan-American highway and demanding an audience with senior government officials (PT, June 11). "As the authorities do not count for anything," said Marco Mansilla, an artisan fishermen who participated in the demonstration on 20 May. "It seems that the only way to pay attention to our problems is if we use force. Instead of progress through dialogue, we turned in early. We had to grab rocks and sticks to negotiate. "Primitive or not, the technique proved effective. Economy
Minisite Hugo Lavados soon traveled to Chiloé, where he made a long list of promises that least for the time, which helped ease tension. Two-and-a-half months later, however, these promises now sound hollow, said FETRAQ representative Mauricio Lopez. "Washed promised to build a laboratory and Quellón Melinka. That has not happened. He promised 300 new jobs. That has not happened. He promised that would train people and bring back to work at a salary of up to 190,000 pesos (U.S. $ 350 per month). It never happened, "said Lopez. "I could go on to provide examples of how Hugo Lavados lied minister of the economy." Criticism of government López also include the "law of Sandoval," a state-moved hacia atrás la cuenta de reforma de color salmón de la industria que está haciendo actualmente su manera a través de congreso. A principios de 2008, las autoridades respondieron a la diapositiva de color salmón organizando a un grupo de trabajo de la emergencia. Llevado por Fisheries Undersecretary Felipe Sandoval, el equipo subió con una serie de recomendaciones.
Con la entrada de las cabezas de la industria y de las instituciones de crédito, el grupo de trabajo organizó eventual sus ideas en una cuenta - la ley de Sandoval - que propone varias modificaciones dominantes a las industrias pesqueras generales de Chile y a la ley de la acuacultura. La pieza central de la legislación es un plan para crear “áreas de la gerencia health "or" neighborhoods, "because they have been bent. The concept is essentially organize the coastal waters of Chile in a few areas of production that would be more environmentally friendly and easier to monitor state (PT, June 16). Critics, however, say that the account comes with a catch. FETRAQ, FETRAINPES and the CUT are part of a long list of organizations convinced the law is a wolf in sheep's clothing. While the promise of environmental improve surface condition, the law, they say, is indeed a "monumental drawing" will benefit the private banks at the expense of taxpayers Chileans. The bill, caution, allow companies to use their grants of aquaculture as collateral against bank loans. If you go up the belly companies, ie banks assume ownership of the concessions. Lending institutions would then have the option to sell or negotiate concessions, creating a market not dissimilar to that which already exists for the rights of freshwater Chile (PT, May 20). "We are talking really about how the government is handling this situation," said Andres Godoy, a union leader Dalcahue Marine Crops, Chiloé. "We know that nothing will improve, perhaps. We are aware of that. But as once someone is told, there are two ways of going down: giving up your neck you like a lamb, or whining to the point like a pig. I'd rather go out screaming. Especially in the face of this situation, when they are trying to privatize or sea, and when children go hungry. I'm not going to just keep my mouth shut. "Translation by altavista
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