Last Saturday, deputy Rui Tavares defended the creation of a law for the self-government of workers, but also the creation of a National Agency for Artificial Intelligence, measures he presented in his speech at the “re-entry” of Livre.
In the closing speech of a day of debate on ideas, at Inatel in Setúbal, Rui Tavares recalled the insecurity in which many workers live, “false green incomes, people exploited without rules, people who do not have the right to go abroad to go”. the shower when he needs it, who doesn’t have a lunch or dinner break for it, who comes home exhausted and wants to organize his life in a different way.”
According to Rui Tavares, it is “possible” for these workers to organize their lives in a different way and “it is desirable to give strength and mobilization capacity to this precarious majority”.
Livre’s spokesperson announced that Livre will work in this direction over the next seven months, especially since the road has already been covered.
“In the context of the constitutional review we are undertaking, Article 51 says that the Portuguese state recognizes the right to self-government of workers, in accordance with the law. What is happening? The terms of the law were never written. No law has ever been made for employee self-management,” he said.
To this end, he called for the mobilization of those currently involved in the ‘Os Setembristas’ initiative: “I challenge you to write together this law of self-management, until the 50th anniversary of the 25th of the 20th century. April and updating this idea for the 21st century”.
The idea, he explained, is to “look for legal, economic and working forms” that make it possible “to empower this insecure majority, to give them power, so that they are not always between bad choices in their economic lives ‘. and terrible choices”.
The solution could involve the creation of “cooperative enterprises” or “self-cooperatives that are quickly established, that do not require social capital, and that are easy to join or leave from a bureaucratic point of view.”
The idea is on the one hand to facilitate participation in projects, to share services and costs, but also to ensure that “the self-employed person does not have to be his own accountant, lawyer or collection agency, but does what he is good at”.
Another of the proposals unveiled concerns artificial intelligence (AI). Rui Tavares began by warning of the risk that AI would end up in the hands of a small group of multi-billionaires and become a tool “in which the public sector is most absent”.
That is why Livre will defend the creation of a National Agency for AI and a European AI Agency at the next European elections.
The European Green Left party has also not forgotten the issue of the environment and, with the aim of including it in the next State Budget (OE), will present a measure to combat air pollution.
“We will present proposals in the OE for the obligation to monitor and set stricter air quality requirements than those already set out in the European Union (EU) directives,” revealed Rui Tavares, without specifying maximum values.
Housing was also discussed, with Livre arguing that to make a “better city” more buildings needed to be restored, such as barracks, former courts and former prisons.
“This is a battle that we must start winning now, otherwise someone will come and sell it at the best price for real estate investment,” he warned, realizing that “it is nothing new”: “The Assembly of the Republic was once a monastery,” recalled.
In his speech of almost half an hour, Rui Tavares recalled that Livre represents the European Green Left, but “it is not like other leftists (…) from a single man who wrote a Bible and that you have to consult to see what it is taking what is in the Bible and then adapting it with political proposals.”
Source: DN
