Labor costs in opposition to Garamendi: “He is closer to Milei, Trump and Vox than to the interests of companies” | Economy | EUROtoday

Relations between the employers’ affiliation and the Ministry of Labor are usually not going by their finest second, however this Thursday the confrontation has intensified if attainable. The Secretary of State for Labor, Joaquín Pérez Rey, quantity two within the Ministry of Labor and right-hand man of the second vice chairman, Yolanda Díaz, has harshly attacked the president of CEOE, Antonio Garamendi, whom he blames for the absence of enterprise organizations within the negotiation to articulate the participation of staff in corporations. After holding the primary assembly of this social dialogue desk solely with the unions, and after CEOE-Cepyme introduced on Monday that they’d not attend, Pérez Rey has indicated that, together with his absence and the way in which through which he has justified it, the employers reveal “enormous radicalism and that Garamendi is closer to [el presidente de Argentina, Javier] Mercy, by [el presidente de EE UU, Donald] Trump and Vox than the interests of the companies they represent.”

In a very critical intervention, the Secretary of State for Labor has reproached the employers’ associations for the decision that “for the primary time in six years they would depart their chairs empty on the social dialogue desk.” Immediately afterwards, Pérez Rey regretted that CEOE and Cepyme informed Labor, through a press release “with justifications that cannot withstand an assault”, that they were giving up negotiating the law to articulate the participation of workers in the boards of directors and ownership of the companies.

In stated observe, launched to the media on Monday, Pérez Rey believes that the businessmen had been holding “real savagery,” resembling desirous to develop article 129 of the Constitution to democratize corporations was typical of authoritarian fashions. “It is as if they had pointed out that countries like Holland or Germany [dos de los 19 Estados de la UE que regulan la cuestión]which are benchmarks of productivity throughout the world, were regimes that do not respect democratic guarantees and freedom of enterprise.” That said, this is when Pérez Rey equated Garamendi with Milei and Trump.

The number two of Labor has insisted that with the abandonment of dialogue the employers renounce being a social interlocutor, when according to Pérez Rey “it has very few tasks other than dialogue to improve the productive system.” That is why he has asked business organizations to “dedicate themselves to what they know, or knew how to do: negotiate measures for the workers of their companies; and to leave politics and ideology aside.” And he has gone further by demanding CEOE and Cepyme “to get out of the radicalism in which they have entered and return to the path of democracy, the commitment to social dialogue and, even, to return to the constitutional path.”

“I’m not saying that [la patronal] “Mr. Garamendi would do properly to cut back his epithets and enhance his work.”