Yolanda Díaz
There’s no more powerful force than the workers of the world. We have to speak to workers — and an increasingly complex world of work.
A true oligarchy is developing: that of a few multinationals acting in an absolutely undemocratic way, paying hardly any taxes, appropriating and dispossessing the world’s citizens of our data, which is crucial today. The debate today is about replacing the Washington Consensus with the Silicon Valley consensus. But it is exactly the same thing. The far right uses its far-right positions but has a shared agenda: to do away with class unions, to do away with workers’ rights. It means doing away with the tool that workers have for advancing their demands, which is the strike.
There’s no more powerful force than the workers of the world. We have to speak to workers — and an increasingly complex world of work.
The right to strike is being discussed right now at the International Labour Organization (ILO). The 113th Session of the ILO in June is going to be key in this regard. Around the world, we see the destruction of the rights won through the accumulated struggle of all these years, in favor of near-slavery.
So I believe that it makes more sense than ever to fight for and encourage the world of work. But work is very complex today. There was the twentieth-century world of Fordist work, what we think of as industrial workers in overalls. Now there is a brutal range of different realities: unionized workers, domestic workers, young interns. Still, workers are the social majority, and what first needs doing is to demonstrate this. I humbly believe that this is what we have done in Spain.
In this country, there have been fifty-two labor reforms. The last two, one from the PSOE and one from the [conservative] Partido Popular, were practically identical. They were the same throughout Europe: they…
Auteur: Yolanda Díaz
