The General Secretary of the PCP, Paulo Raimundo, in Ovar, Aveiro, advised those asking for the stabilization of labor laws to live the experience of precarious work so that they understand the instability to which workers are condemned.
In his speech at a lunch that brought together several hundred activists in Ovar, the communist leader sharpened the party’s demands on those who “question the improvement of working conditions in Portugal.”
“For those who think it is necessary to enforce labor laws as they are, we challenge them all: go to work by the hour, by the day, with fake green vouchers, on digital platforms or in contact centers, in shifts, go to to work today without knowing if they will have a job tomorrow, they will work on Sundays, they will work 40, 50 and 60 hours a week, they will have two or three different jobs to survive.”
And he continued: “They will leave their children at daycare at 7am and pick them up at 7pm. They will work, work and without being able to pay the bills, they will work five, six and sometimes seven days a week. work every month during this increasingly longer month and earn less than a thousand euros gross salary per month. They will work without being appreciated, without being respected, without having a career or profession. They will have this experience, which is the experience of millions and millions of workers in our country.”
Concluding his intervention on this point, Paulo Raimundo said: “Go and see that your request for stability of labor laws is an insult to the daily instability of millions and millions who live and work here.”
In an intervention that was always in a very critical tone, the PCP leader also pointed out that “what happened with the approval of the 2024 state budget once again revealed that today there are too many deputies in the Assembly of the Republic who serve the bank.” and the service of economic groups and there are fewer deputies who serve the workers, the people, the country, those who live and those who work here, but this will change with the strengthening of the PCP parliamentary group and the CDU deputies ”.
When asked to comment on the accusations of the PSD leader, Luís Montenegro, that the “device is still going on”, Paulo Raimundo finally replied that “it is the so-called flight forward, which sends to others what he don’t want. political solution.”
“This is to entertain us during the Christmas period,” joked the PCP leader, who, regarding a new commitment to the left, emphasized that “the problem is not in the form, but in the content,” recalling what “the PS did. in the past two years” to justify the “unclear”.
When asked what the PCP’s demands were for a post-election commitment, he replied: “for example, they were all demands that were contrary to the demands approved in this state budget”.
“With us they don’t talk about the form, only about the content,” explains Paulo Raimundo.
Source: DN
