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UGT-Canarias expresses its "utmost caution" regarding the unemployment data registered in July in the Canary Islands, with 1,554 fewer unemployed, which, although "positive for the Canary Islands", "do not improve the year-on-year data" and also, "the employment that is created is, for the most part, of low quality, unstable and insecure".
According to the union, on the one hand it is noted that, every time there is an improvement in the unemployment data in the Canary Islands, an improvement that UGT describes as "casual", in the national average and with the same parameters "this data has improved substantially in relative terms". Thus, UGT clarifies that while the year-on-year data in the Canary Islands increases by 1.59 percent, in the national average, it decreases by 4.2 percent.
In this sense, UGT-Canarias insists that employment policies in the Archipelago "are bogged down and without any sign of remedy, if the Government of the Islands continues without respecting and materializing the measures agreed upon in the Social Dialogue Table".
The union assures that the Canarian Government should "do the opposite of what it has been doing in recent years, that is, commit to developing the active employment policies contemplated in the Strategic Employment Plan for the Canary Islands (PEEC)". However, UGT-Canarias criticizes that "until now its implementation has not been seen with defined facts".
The trade union organization also denounces that the public resources destined to the promotion and creation of activity and the consequent generation of employment "are not having a real impact, since, either they are not used adequately, or they are simply not used and, a part of them have to be returned to the European Union".
In the same sense, UGT-Canarias maintains that a significant part of the responsibility for the high unemployment rate suffered by this community falls on employers, since "little or nothing of their surplus income is reinvested in the creation of more activity and less employment, as well as in job stability".
