Your structural and old-fashioned violence

Alicia Mujica Dorta Your government, with a simple command, has just approved a Labor Reform that reduces the right to lactation, allows a flagrant violation of the right to reconcile family and professional life, the most serious since ...

March 9 2012 (15:51 WET)
Alicia Mujica Dorta
Your government, with a simple command, has just approved a Labor Reform that reduces the right to lactation, allows a flagrant violation of the right to reconcile family and professional life, the most serious since ...

Your government, with a simple command, has just approved a Labor Reform that reduces the right to lactation, allows a flagrant violation of the right to reconcile family and professional life, the most serious since the first law that allowed it was approved, Law 39/99, almost thirteen years ago.

Your government of empowered classists, with a first female Minister of Labor, has just revoked the bonus that companies received for reincorporating women after maternity periods, a measure that was applied after the Law of Effective Equality of Women and Men.

Your government has just allowed women, the most enslaved workers in many sectors with part-time contracts, to have lost the limitation on overtime hours, generating several channels for employers to impose an irregular and capricious distribution of their working day without further ado, giving employers the possibility of squeezing and extorting the already precarious labor situation.

Your government has just allowed any working woman at any time in her life to suffer a reduction in salary, or be simply dismissed, or her working day can be fractioned or the performance system that the company applies to her can change, always to adjust to production needs.

Your government abuses people, allows children and young students to be mistreated in the street by the police, tries to humiliate the producing class of this country, avoids any measure that would moderate the financial weight of loans on families who cannot pay.

Your old-fashioned government fills the lives of many families with sorrow, fills the lives of all working women with stupor and shame.

Your politics and your dialectic about our intimacy, about our sexuality, about our right to choose whether or not to put our pitcher into operation to create lives, give immense disgust to many women, and much more when after this terrible attack against the rights of workers, against the rights of this humanity that we represent, you try to be condescending and seductive.

Your government is pure violence, structural, political, economic, it is pure social violence generating more polarization and general impoverishment of the working class, and a general deterioration of the conditions of a decent life for people. We are guarantors, women, of our respect, of our life, of our freedom, so keep your hands off our affective and reproductive rights, apart from the only structural violence that worries us: the one you represent, Gallardón.

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