The former president Álvaro Uribe The marches of the labor day 2025. The politician mentioned the eight actions that the government would be exercising against workers and the alternatives of his political party.
Uribe’s statements occur after President Gustavo Petro settled the popular consultation for labor reform in the Senate of the Republic.
According to the former president, “the insecurity, drug trafficking and aggressive official discourse“It is one of the actions against workers.
The former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez is pronounced during Labor Day. Photo:Private archive
Actions against workers, according to Uribe
- “The insecurity, drug trafficking and the official aggressive discourse demotivate the creation of formal employment”: according to the former president, the informality It continues to grow and “government reforms boost it even more.”
- “More than 2 million people have abandoned the country. More than half in working age. Many are young”: Álvaro Uribe said that the Young Colombians “are sentenced to choose between two options: either to leave the country or link to illegal activities“In addition, he added that the number of young people who recruit for microtrafficking is” growing. They distribute drugs and have a percentage for their expenses. And in microtrafficking development they go to other crimes. ”
- “The Health destruction To impose a state monopoly “: the politician said that” he is already depriving workers access to medicines and services, who have to pay from their pocket, or transfer them to the businessman who cannot always. ”
- “The pension law Remove the possibility of young workers to build a high pension. It leaves them subject to that defined by the State “: according to the former president, the Pension Law increases by 150 weeks, the minimum contribution time.” The Government tries, through regulatory decrees, extract resources from the public fund to finance budget expenses. They intend to compensate for public waste with workers’ pension funds, “Uribe said in his video.
- “The Social Housing Paralysis It leaves workers without the possibility of having their own home “: the politician also referred to the leases, which” are increasing for increased demand. “
- “The lack of natural gas will produce an increase in the price of this essential service.”
- “The decrease in mining-energy activitythreatens the salaries of the best paid workers, who largely voted for President Petro “
- “He Government payroll increase in more than 30 thousand people is unsustainable. It is an electoral deception to those appointed or hired, “he concluded.
The politician mentioned the alternatives of his political party. Photo:EFE
The alternatives to these actions
The former president Álvaro Uribe, among the alternatives of his political party, mentioned that they reduced from “48 to 42 hours a week the work daywithout reducing the worker’s income, “he said in the video.
In addition, he said that “they have proposed that new ventures such as platforms guarantee social security to their operators, but not suffocate them with the Labor Code.”
Mentioned insisting “in a additional benefit for workers When companies have important growth. ”
“Colombia needs alternative education of short, cumulative cycles, with simultaneous possibilities of decent employment. With comprehensive support to the entrepreneurship of young people. We make the fund to undertake that we create in SENA a possibility for all young people,” he added.
Labor Day marches in Bogotá in the Plaza de Bolívar. Photo:@MilTondiazfoto / El Tiempo
In addition, he added that the country needs “Less taxes, better work remuneration, small state, fraternal economy, support for workers and entrepreneurs“.
‘That Bolívar’s sword reminds us that the Liberator welled it to the service of freedom’: Uribe
To finish his speech, the politician mentioned Bolívar’s sword, which was exhibited on May 1 by President Gustavo Petro in the Plaza de Bolívar.
“That Bolívar’s sword reminds us that the Liberator welled it to the service of freedom. Chávez distorted her and put her at the service of the dictatorship, with a speech of good modulation that hid the ignorance about the thought of Bolívar, who was convinced of private entrepreneurship and not the communism that he wanted to co -opt it. Chávez also used eloquence to cover the poverty he multiplied, “he said.
The former president Álvaro Uribe mentioned the sword of Simón Bolívar. Photo:Democratic Center Press
On the other hand, he mentioned total peace. “Colombia has many young people, workers, entrepreneurs, teachers, intellectuals, brave women, fighting a democratic and fraternal path in 2026. And also in this fight we ask for quota people like me, age and old militancy, with successes and mistakes of good faith, in all the disposition of a homeland with the tricolor of freedom, Without the flags of violence with which they want to cover the territory of the country, turned into a common grave that simulate with total peace“He concluded.
Geraldine Bajonero Vásquez
