Such confidence shown coordinator IU-Greens in Cieza after analyzing the newly adopted Common Agricultural Policy for the period 2014-2020, which qualifies as a "PAC take that completely ignores the social and labor aspects of the agricultural sector."
The coordinator of IU-Greens in Cieza, Francisco Saorín, has been very critical of the current CAP, because in his opinion "is untenable because not guarantee remunerative farm incomes, for what should go for public intervention, and because , today, is not designed to approach the desired food sovereignty. "
So, through a press release, Saorín denounced the cuts in the funding of the CAP and the EU budget reduction while criticized false solutions proposed in the CAP reform adopted in November.
These noted the definition of active farmer "entirely inadequate, empty, not being designed to give a boost to professional farmers but to allow the continued existence of parasites of aid as the central role of workers is ignored employees in agriculture. "
Moreover, Saorín denounced the lack of social dialogue in Spain because "the Ministry of Agriculture makes a partial and narrow reading of the actors involved in the food chain and in agriculture."
Also, the coordinator considers indispensable ciezanos ecosocialistas CAP "dignify and professionalize the work of employees in the field, ending employment discrimination suffered by more than 800,000 workers agricultural workers in Spain."
"From IU-Greens believe that labor issues should be central to the CAP and thus, once and for all, stop and ignore invisible in European policies to workers in the field," says Saorín, "since the food production would not be possible without the active participation of farm laborers for others, so it is imperative that employees be included with farmers as beneficiaries of aid and assurance systems. "
Finally, Saorín said that "proposals for socio-labor PAC to aid conditionality, generating stable and quality employment, wage and decent working conditions, respect for the rules of occupational risk prevention and social modulation are needed aid CAP, as key elements, challenges and key criteria for achieving a more just and social PAC. "
Source: IU-verdes Cieza