The priest (Ciudad Real, 30,600 inhabitants) and known in social networks for their direct homilies and, sometimes, controversial, denounced at the Mass on Sunday the abuses suffered by the workers of the countryside and made a call to the fact that “no one should take advantage of the weak.” Montes’s words have been very shared in social networks in recent hours, where they have generated a debate about them.
Montes assured during his Sunday homily that although in the situation it is “less serious”, there are municipalities in the area where the storms suffer from labor abuses for the extensive hours of work and the low wages they perceive. The priest asked the faithful to be aware: “If the wage is eight hours, it is eight hours, there are no 12. And if there are 12, the extra hours are paid,” he said from the altar on Sunday, days before the harvest begins in this area, which is
“I will not take advantage of you, even in the hours,” insisted the priest, who stressed that the economic precariousness of these workers cannot justify unfair remuneration. The priest listed three basic principles that, in his opinion, must guide the treatment of the storms, and that are fair wages, decent housing and guaranteed labor rights: “If I have to give you housing, I will give it to you in a place where I can also live. I do not say the Hilton hotel, but neither a place where I would not live or my children,” said the pastor, who recalled that the workers of the field are dignity”.
He also referred to the need for stoths to be discharged in Social Security: “They are discharged and these people have their social rights. If we are not clear, although then we give us chest blows, God does not forget it, because it is to take advantage of the weakest.” Montes asked his parishioners to know cases of abuse, do not tolerate him or justify him: “You had to fall as shame. No one should take advantage of the weak, and this must be clear, not only for being Christians, but for dignity,” he warned.
