2023-04-28 08:41:08
And with the approach of May 1, the proposal of Conner Rousseau (Vooruit) made the PS cringe. The president of the Flemish Socialist Party proposes that the long-term unemployed (2 years) will have to accept “a basic job” on pain of saying goodbye to their allowances. What does the PTB ? Pour Raoul Hedebouw : “if the Liberals had started this, I would have understood. But that a socialist swings this on May 1st, it’s incomprehensible“.
The president of the PTB believes that it is “truly symbolic of a Blairist form of socialism“, a reference to a third way that Tony Blair (Labour), former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom had opened, he says. “A kind of liberal socialism“. “He’s going to shoot himself three times in the foot..”
We see that these new jobs that are created replace stable jobs
In the equation, remember that we have on the one hand the long-term unemployed who for the most part have not worked for 5 years. And on the other hand, a number large number of job vacancies that remain unanswered, particularly in Flanders. How to solve this equation?
Raoul Hedebouw dissects the proposal of the President of the Flemish Socialist Party. “This less well paid community service is implemented in the Netherlands. We see that these new jobs that are created replace stable jobs, fixed-term contracts and paid 300 or 400 euros less.” What for him is equivalent to an internal social dumping.”
A positive way to solve the equation, explains the president of the PTB, would be to make all shortage occupations attractive. And he takes as an example, the profession of nurse and nurse where we see that many people leave the profession. With schedules that are not obvious, a high number of patients, poor working conditions, “this is what needs to be solved“. Another example, the trade of mason: “how do you want to ask a mason to work until he is 67?“
Let’s go back to the Vooruit proposals, the Flemish Socialist Party offers support from the first day of unemployment, in particular training in the digital field to create a CV. “But in fact, all this already exists“, recalls the president of the PTB. “It’s complete rubbish. You have to go look at the VDAB and the FOREM. When you are unemployed, you are immediately activated.”
It’s always down that we hit
For Raoul Hedebouw, the purpose of this proposal “is to stigmatize“. “The goal is to say, the economic problem we have is because of the unemployed, the long-term sick, the Walloons when you’re Flemish, the Flemish when you’re Walloon. It is always downwards that we type. That’s Conner Rousseau’s problem. He thinks that by running after the right, he will go and look for votes. Well no, when we run after the right, we lose as a left party. This is why we must put real values of the left forward, certainly on May 1.”
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