the mayor of cannelloni and candidate for Broad Front (FA), Yamandu Orsi, was in favor of a Reduction of the working day, an issue that is increasingly addressed by countries in search of a new work paradigm; although he considered that the priority in Uruguay are wages and employment.
His comments were in the framework of an act in Pando for the 40 years from May 1, 1983and pointed out that it was necessary to study the cases that are being promoted in Europe and more recently in Chili, that lower the number of weekly hours that workers do in their jobs.
“The Western world has been analyzing the issue of the possibility of reducing the working day,” commented the mayor, and considered that “we must attend to it because in the face of a world that is coming to us, it would seem that there is going to be a surplus population, of discard, where the redundancy of large masses of workers and workers is there on the horizon, we must look for alternatives so that work of course continues to dignify and be the engine of growth and development”, he added.
Orsi’s comments also came at a time when the social security reform It is going through its final stretch in Parliament, and it is just days away from achieving its final approval.
Wages, employment and new technologies, urgent issues
In any case, the first confirmed Frente Amplio candidate stressed that the main issue that workers have to fight for today is “the pay cut”. In his opinion, you have tofight for salary and jobs, both things at the same time, in an economy that is shrinking worldwide, there is an economic policy that sacrificed wages for the sake of containing spending. The working class, fairly and with the right, has to fight for each job and so that wages do not fall.
Another concern in world of work have to do with “the technology, innovation and artificial intelligence They are here to stay, you have it from the supermarket checkout to agricultural production, it is a reality that you have to accept and see how we shape that so that our gurisada, those that are being formed, are formed in other things different from the that we formed ourselves”.
In this sense, Orsi stressed that “it will always be necessary to human Intelligence, the arms and legs of the workers, there is no way, the issue is what is the fair time, what is the fair remuneration. I think it changes our heads, it triggers some of the things that we had installed as truths, which are now much more relative”.
“Now there is a truth that is very clear: without the labor force, without the people, and if we do not solve the livelihoods and income of our people well, there is no economy that can endure”, he pointed out.
Source: Ambito
