Vieira da Silva, Minister of Economy
Dictatorial tendencies are more and more evident
with the new government of António Costa.
Before coming to power, Costa pledged that winning or losing the elections,
HE WOULD BE PRIME MINISTER.
After a parliamentary coup d'etat;
the unelected Costa, immediately started inverting all reforms,
investments or laws made by the previous government.
TAP, the national airline, which was sold, with Pedro Passo Coelho
still the legitimatedly elected and imposed PM,
António Costa said that he vowed during the election campaign
to revert the sale of TAP, taking 51% of its assests for the State
and although the new owners said they would stuck with their sales contract,
having injected already 180 million euro
necessary for salaries and maintance of aircraft
Costa threatened that the State
would take possession of 51% of TAP assets,
"with or without" the owners' agreement.
During the night, the new government sold the Banif Bank to Santander,
with a possible burden of 3,825 million euros for the taxpayers.
The State will injection be another 1,766 million euros.
Did anyone ask the taxpayers for their opinion or permission
to use the taxpayers´ hard-earned taxes for this operation?
Of course the previous government is to blame,
although at least 8 attempts of restructing the bank
were turned down in Brussels.
On the subject of the rise of the minimum wage,
the government has decided,
"with or without agreement" with the employers´associations,
to rise the minimum wage, at the demand of the communist trade unions.
The president of the Business Confederation of Portugal, António Saraiva,
used a proverb to describe the negotiations:
"What is born crooked, will never be straightened".
Then he criticized the fact that the government has left "no leeway"
for another scenario, than that of the proposed 530 euros per month.
He himself, even recognized that the minimum wage "is low,"
but argued, that it must only be increased, through improvements in productivity,
the state of the economy and according to the inflation rate.
Agreeing in principal, the president of the Farmers Confederation, João Machado,
called the new amount "a substantial increase,
especially compared to last year's increase,"
while João Vieira Lopes, representative of Trade and Services,
said that the amount does not not have any "adequate economic justification".
Sectors like Hotelary, Catering and Agriculture
are among those who have more workers with minimal pay.
Without any increase in productivity,
with the fragile economic situation of the country,
and all the millions of millions already promised for every sector,
but only increasing pensioners by 0,67 cents per month,
it is a sure way of derailing the country's fragile economy,
and within months to have the public deficit out of control again!
According to Armenian Carlos,
the leader of the communist CGTP trade union,
who again wielded the argument,
that this measure would cause the Social Security System
or the State Budget to foot the new minimum salary increment.
"There are all conditions for employers to increase the minimum wage," he said.
On the other hand, the socialist UGT trade union, Carlos Silva,
regretted the absence of an agreement.
"This agreement was not possible, but not because of us," he said,
noting that the outcome of the negotiations is "a disappointment"
for the "enhancement of social dialogue".
WITH OR WITHOUT AN AGREEMENT ONCE AGAIN!!
CUBAN OR VENEZUELAN STYLE??
to use the taxpayers´ hard-earned taxes for this operation?
Of course the previous government is to blame,
although at least 8 attempts of restructing the bank
were turned down in Brussels.
On the subject of the rise of the minimum wage,
the government has decided,
"with or without agreement" with the employers´associations,
to rise the minimum wage, at the demand of the communist trade unions.
The president of the Business Confederation of Portugal, António Saraiva,
used a proverb to describe the negotiations:
"What is born crooked, will never be straightened".
Then he criticized the fact that the government has left "no leeway"
for another scenario, than that of the proposed 530 euros per month.
He himself, even recognized that the minimum wage "is low,"
but argued, that it must only be increased, through improvements in productivity,
the state of the economy and according to the inflation rate.
Agreeing in principal, the president of the Farmers Confederation, João Machado,
called the new amount "a substantial increase,
especially compared to last year's increase,"
while João Vieira Lopes, representative of Trade and Services,
said that the amount does not not have any "adequate economic justification".
Sectors like Hotelary, Catering and Agriculture
are among those who have more workers with minimal pay.
Without any increase in productivity,
with the fragile economic situation of the country,
and all the millions of millions already promised for every sector,
but only increasing pensioners by 0,67 cents per month,
it is a sure way of derailing the country's fragile economy,
and within months to have the public deficit out of control again!
According to Armenian Carlos,
the leader of the communist CGTP trade union,
who again wielded the argument,
that this measure would cause the Social Security System
or the State Budget to foot the new minimum salary increment.
"There are all conditions for employers to increase the minimum wage," he said.
On the other hand, the socialist UGT trade union, Carlos Silva,
regretted the absence of an agreement.
"This agreement was not possible, but not because of us," he said,
noting that the outcome of the negotiations is "a disappointment"
for the "enhancement of social dialogue".
WITH OR WITHOUT AN AGREEMENT ONCE AGAIN!!
CUBAN OR VENEZUELAN STYLE??
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