President Gustavo Petro responded on Sunday, June 30, via his X account (formerly Twitter) to the former president’s previously expressed criticism Alvaro Uribe Velez in return for reform work that processes the Government in Congress.
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Petro started his extensive message on the social network by saying that the labor reform he proposes is “not a labor market reform” impulse“, contradicting the leader of the Democratic Centerwho said in a statement that “the reform does not create allowances, but increases the existing ones. Everything would seem like a whim, a vanity to repeal regulations created in the government presided over by a ‘so-and-so’.”
A path to improve the quality of employment, other than harmful labor reform. pic.twitter.com/XfBL3LzLGZ
— Álvaro Uribe Vélez (@AlvaroUribeVel) June 30, 2024
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In response, the head of state pointed out that “in the Uribe and previous governments it was thought that the businessman’s profits increased if the working day was extended, the holiday disappeared and the relative salary deteriorated. That is, if he was exploited, absolutely, more for the worker, according to theories from the 19th century”.
“In modern societies, exploitation takes place through an increase in the quality of the means of production; according to this concept, the worker, if organized, can generate high salaries, fewer hours of work and a higher quality of life, without reducing the profit of the employee-entrepreneur; on the contrary, it increases significantly thanks to high productivity,” he added.
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Petro believed that “the economic clumsiness and social selfishness of our economic and political elites” are the reasons why Colombia has become the poorest country in the OECD, the country with the longest weekly working day and the country with the lowest productivity.
“I want to change that and put Colombia on the path of productivity. It is not a fad, the country has the capacity and a national pact about productivity and not the gross exploitation of the people, it could do it. the Democratic Center and Radical Change groups that want an end to public education, the expansion of which is the basis of productivity and prosperity in the 21st century,” the president concluded.
Labor reform is not a fad. In the Uribe government and before, it was thought that the businessman’s profits increased as the working day was extended, the holiday disappeared and the relative salary deteriorated. That is, if the worker was exploited, absolutely more,… https://t.co/roCdP3WdKe
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) June 30, 2024
Source: El Heraldo
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