Monday, September 13, 2010

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The employee participation in profits, Ariadna Somoza Zanuy

Capital Federal (Paco Urondo Agency, Buenos Aires Economico published 09/10/2010)

In the last week initiated a debate that the major media missed something unseen and yet is large scale national life, especially for the lives of workers and building a national and popular.

MP Héctor Recalde the CGT, one of the few representatives who are employees in the legislative body, announced the development and presentation of a draft law regulating the provisions of the Constitution in respect of employee participation in profits companies. This generated a series of injunctions between him and Julio Piumato, Human Rights Secretary of the CGT on the one hand, with the head of the UIA, Hector Mendez, and the owner of Fiat Argentina, Cristiano Rattazzi, on the other. However, something went unnoticed even more is the political stance on the issue that made the national government from the said Deputy Minister of Labour, Noemí Rial, in an interview published in Time last Sunday Argentino.
Rial
As stated in the interview, the issue of employee participation in profits is provided in the Constitution, in Article 14 bis of the revised Constitution in 1957 under the military dictatorship that came to overthrow the government Perón and thus the victories won by the workers during this political process. It is clear that the constitutional reform came to wipe out the Constitution of '49, which stated in Articles 38, 39 and 40: "The social function of property, capital and activity economy. "

This constitution was annulled under the criteria of being punished in the context of an authoritarian government that failed to meet basic standards for institutional reform that have the necessary legitimacy. Again, the question of how to cover the discussion of content: what was trying to cover was the social function of capital and not how it was sanctioned, as it is incomprehensible how today is in effect a revised Constitution under a dictatorship shot as the Liberating.

is important to note that to understand the context: we are talking about employee participation in profits, which established by the Constitution amended in 1957, and not the social function of capital entered in the Peronist Constitution of '49. For 61 years the floor for discussion is another, yet the initiative was branded cubanizante by the owner of the UIA.

Recalde The draft is then based on the provisions of the Constitution in article 14 bis, which states that "workers are entitled to the share of the profits of the company, with production control and collaboration in the direction. " It is also contemplated in the Employment Contracts Act, which establishes the presentation of a social balance that workers to know about the future of the company and therefore own, and also have information on the earnings of the company and to sit down and negotiate their salaries and their participation in those.

The importance of this information is indispensable for workers. This is evidenced by the increase of 32% obtained by the guild of food, an increase of knowledge gained from the balance sheets of companies in the industry and its share price.

Today only 20% of firms comply with the obligation to present the Social workers with a copy to the Ministry of Labour, which obligation are under the signatures of more than 300 employees. Among the main items that meet find the telephone, banking and petroleum, commodities precisely where workers have greater economic power in terms of pay. The only way to increase that percentage, said Rial, is the joint action of trade unions and the state.

Specifically, the draft Recalde contemplates the formation of a tripartite body between employers, the CGT and the State, through which it is implemented. The central and most important idea is the use of the concept of profit, as its relevance is what defines what is the participation of workers and not the size or quantity workers. By taxing the gain, it may be small but highly technical facilities that generate high profits, or it could be large groups. In turn, the profit will be removing the possibility of argument by the employer that the initiative creates disinvestment, and reinvestment of profits that will not be counted for the purpose of participation. This, then, generate the opposite effect and encourage reinvestment.

What is the novelty of this discussion? They start to discuss earnings. Why workers' wages should be discussed with the state and joint employers, and employers do not profit discussed with anyone? Discuss how much of the cake is the capital is a major breakthrough in this process. Is to discuss, again, what is the participation of workers in relation to the capital in output in the country, the wealth that our country produces.

But with employee participation in profits is not discussing it only in terms of wages, but after much discussion of the capital gain may be appropriate as well. Not to mention if we could start discussing, as stated in the Constitution, on the participation of workers in the control and direction of the production process.

The Rattazzi said Mendez and are very expressive little national awareness of some of our manufacturers. Subsumed in the dominant idea that development comes only if we can export our products before now only agricultural and industrial products, always put aside the development and quality of life of the domestic market, made by workers in the first place. From this perspective, the industrial sector is doing well if it manages to export, an issue that is currently well below the most recent data on exports of the sector showing record numbers. They are trying to hide under this argument is that they are willing to discuss distribution of wealth. That is why our country compared to Cuba, nothing more, nothing less.

However, in this country there is no profit, because it is a country with a socialist economic system in which the property is social and the state has majority stake in companies. In this case it is worth comparing with other countries within the capitalist system and the region, including political signs are different, however, already have legislation and enforcement regimes of employee participation in profits, although different ways. These countries are Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador and Venezuela.

These examples show that the real issue is not whether we move ever closer to Cuba, but within the framework of the capitalist system there are countries in which workers are participating in gains without government be socialist or communist . What I do not want to discuss the UIA holders and FIAT, say for example, is that capitalism can exist where not everything alive is a pit, where workers will become increasingly participating in the distribution of wealth and thus achieve the desired 50% -50% that some time we managed to win.

Discussion about Cuba, Venezuela, socialism, capitalism, is a discussion of the popular, to which we can tell that Rattazzi Méndez and let us us. What they do know is that as we move through measures such as employee participation in profits, for example, the more they empower workers, whether employed or unemployed, more people are empowered to define the field the directions of the national project and popular.

Car train is sociologist The Study Group of National Economy and Popular (GEENaP) www.geenap.com.ar (Paco Agency Urondo)

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