WORLD WORLDWIDE SPAIN MADRID News Journal Update - (en) Spain, Madrid, FAI: Facing work accidents and job insecurity (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 This past Wednesday, May 3, a worker died electrocuted in the assembly of the

booths of the San Isidro festivities in Madrid. It has been made public that the
worker carried out this work precariously, without an employment contract and
possibly without being registered with Social Security. ---- This is not an
isolated case, only in the Community of Madrid in 2022 there were 2,267
registered work accidents, according to data provided by the Community of Madrid
and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. ---- The fear that
workers suffer from unemployment, the uncertainty created by the deregulation of
work, an increasingly competitive economic system, or the dismantling of social
protection and public health, makes us accept any job "of shit" in order to
support ourselves and protect and help those close to us.

The workers are devoted to the machinery of salaried work and its miseries to
survive. For this reason we have to be aware that our lives and our dignity are
worth much more than the earnings of any businessman, landlord, public
administration or any other parasite of the work of others.

Employers take advantage of our ignorance of occupational risk prevention
measures and many do not give their workers the corresponding individual
protection equipment (PPE) for the performance of their work. Teasing workers
with PPE is job insecurity. Creating precarious work environments through fear,
without any type of prevention or planning for the employer to save on costs, is
employer terrorism.

We cannot forget about occupational diseases. It is very common for employers or
the public administration to refuse to recognize the occupational diseases that
the performance of our work creates for us. In addition, it is common for there
to be a lack of coordination between the institutions that participate in the
detection of diseases, and deficiencies on the part of employers or the
administration when it comes to monitoring, preventing or planning these
circumstances.

For this reason, it is vital and necessary to be informed of the risks that exist
in our jobs, to demand from employers and public administrations both PPE and
labor rights and improvements. And it is vital that workers organize for the
defense and promotion of our class interests.

https://federacionanarquistaiberica.wordpress.com/2023/05/09/madrid-frente-a-los-accidentes-de-trabajo-y-la-precariedad-laboral/
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