#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #SPAIN #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Spaine: CNT nº 430: Health and Mutual: incompatible letters - SINDICAL / Vitoria (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Adila does clean fish, and she sells it. The boxes have left their mark over

time: she started having punctures and pain in her back and one day she was half
bent over. She went to the mutual that her boss told her and they did some test
to arrive at the diagnosis: lumbago. Lumbago as a common disease, because they
say that before working in the fish market she had already had a similar episode.
---- Benicio works with a truck collecting glass containers for recycling. The
pick-up mechanism broke down and Benicio, when leaving the cabin to try to fix
it, sprained his foot. At first he thought it would be something temporary, a
minor sprain that he would get better in no time. When he arrived at the base,
his foot did not improve and he told the manager: "you will know, but if you go
to the emergency room, do not say that you have been working because then they do
not attend to you". Benicio, who has not been seen in another, pays attention to
the manager, goes to the emergency room and when they ask him what is wrong, he
explains that he had sprained his foot on the stairs of his house. It wasn't a
sprain, he had broken a bone. He calls the company and the same person in charge
as before tells him that he has to go to the insurance company. He goes to her
and when they see the emergency report they send him to her family doctor to get
her sick leave. Before leaving, he explains to them the truth of what happened
three times, but the mutual do not attend to any reason other than the emergency
report and do not want to know anything. There are two cases that have come to
the union.

Companies make increasingly precarious contracts for increasingly fragile people.

But in recent times there have been more: a person who for eight hours a day
makes the same movement with his hand until it annoys it, another who is
discharged half-healed, or who does not operate because it is already It will
heal with time and it's better that way...

The current power of mutuals
There was a time when the INSS decided what was an accident or an occupational
disease. It was before the union companies -yes, those that are dedicated to
telling us how much they defend the public sector- signed one of the many reforms
that have fried us. Now in practice it is the mutuals that have the upper hand.
The law has been able to define mutuals as non-profit associations. Only that
would be enough for us not to believe anything that comes behind (and ahead). The
reality is that mutual insurance companies are set up by the same companies. That
is to say, it is the companies that rule in the mutuals, they are theirs. From
there we can better understand everything that happens when a worker has an
accident or occupational disease. Companies have only one objective, profit.
Therefore, mutuals directly or indirectly have the function of benefiting the
companies that have set them up and not the people who have had a health problem
at work.

It is estimated that half of occupational diseases are not diagnosed as such
because it is very difficult to demonstrate and relate cause and effect. The
percentage even rises when it comes to recognizing small accidents at work.
Mutual insurance doctors are specialists in always finding a way to skip their
responsibilities. That the health and life of the patient should be their first
concerns does not go with them. And conscience and dignity, I don't even tell you.

What has been proven is the relationship between precariousness and poor health.
Companies make increasingly precarious contracts for people who are more and more
fragile every day. If they fall in accidents or sick... there is no problem, the
insurance company goes into action, I order and command. If a list of priorities
of approaches to struggle were made, ending the power that mutuals have should be
very high. Although little can be done if each one goes their own way. In this
matter we also note that injustice is well assembled and to face the situations
it generates we can only get together, organize ourselves, join the CNT.

https://www.cnt.es/noticias/salud-y-mutuas-letras-incompatibles/
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