“We will promote a more effective participation of workers and workers in the field of their respective companies.” To the citizens, specified in the Government Program of the Parties, has advanced this Thursday at the Ministry of Labor. The second and responsible vice president of the department, Yolanda Díaz, has presented the Commission of Experts that will prepare a proposal on how to develop this commitment through a new law of “Democracy in companies”. The key point is how to ensure in the advice of the companies, an idea that already received in Congress last year, with the rejection of the right -wing parties to an initiative to add.
Díaz has defended this project in a long speech, in which he has linked the task of these experts and the purpose of the future norm with democratic values, given the progress of the extreme right and “the technological oligarchy.” “There are examples of autocratic corporations, with authoritarian cultures outside the democracy and the efficiency of the digital age,” Diaz criticized, before adding: “But also examples of corporations that do the opposite, which go in the right direction. That are resilient and that incorporate talent into decision making. ”
The second vice president has stressed that the participation of unions in the direction of companies is “usual” in other European countries, “such as Germany, the Netherlands or the Scandinavians.” And he recalled that the Spanish Constitution already introduces this idea, although it has not had enough subsequent concretion. , which says: “The public authorities will effectively promote the various forms of participation in the company and will promote, through adequate legislation, cooperative societies. They will also establish the means that facilitate the access of workers to the property of the means of production ”.
“There is nothing,” said Diaz after reading this article. “There are those who want to reduce the Spanish Constitution to a simple framework of political and institutional rules. I military to the opposite. The Constitution is a democratic program in all its materiality. ” Díaz believes that the future norm is important to “modernize Spain” and to “Europeanize companies.”
This idea already in Congress in April last year, when the Labor Commission rejected to adopt measures that improve democratization in companies. PP, Vox, Juns and PNV prevented the approval of the initiative.
“It is a matter of time”
The Job Manager has highlighted the importance of this law for the current context, before the increasing and greater, the growing power of some large companies () and before the collapse of the scheme of. “It is a matter of time. We need democracy to enter into economic matters. Strong states are in check. An abyss has been opened between the exponential profits of shareholders and frozen wages of working people, or devalued in many parts of the world. It is essential that citizens govern and not the businesses of a few. The key is that it is democracy that chooses economic planning, not markets. ”
He added that there is democracy in the associations of mothers and fathers of schools, in universities or in neighboring communities, there must be in companies. “Do we want to be companies low cost or based on innovation? Does production oriented to speculation? Despotic or democratic companies? They are models and you have to decide, ”he concludes, before ensuring that he will respect the conclusions of the experts,” we like it or not. “
International experts
The Commission will be chaired by the Belgian sociologist Isabelle Ferreras, a specialist at the University of Leuven It is even more current today than 50 years ago to deal with the challenges facing Spain, Europe and the world. We can all see that the confrontation between capitalism and democracy reaches its climax. Right now the United States clearly shows what a democracy collapses before the capitalist project. The alternative is facing us and us. ”
They also participate in the Jeremias Adams-Prassl (Oxford University), Julie Battilana (Harvard Business School), Antonio Baylos (University of Castilla-La Mancha), Benjamin Braun (The London School of Economics and Political Science), Isabel-Gemma Fajardo (University of Valencia), Sergio González (University of Oviedo), Francisca María Ferrando (University of Murcia), Daniel Innerarity (University of the Basque Country), Sara Lafuente (European Trade Union Institute), Erinch Sahan (Doughnut Economics Lab), Vicente Salas (University of Zaragoza) and Edurne Terradillos (University of the Basque Country ).
