The Union of Associations of Autonomous Workers and Entrepreneurs (UATAE) and the Autonomous for Equality (Axi), within the framework of the International Workers Day, which is held this May 1, have claimed an “urgent and transformative” agenda that contemplates key reforms to improve the labor rights of self -employed workers.
These improvements have asked that “go on the path of advancing in a price for real income that is progressive and adapted to the reality of the group’s group.” They have also demanded subsidies and unemployment and disease benefits that protect the self -employed as the rest of workers and workers.
In addition, they have demanded specific measures of co -responsibility and conciliation including maternity aid, effective casualties and care services.
“Autonomous work cannot remain synonymous with loneliness, insecurity and institutional abandonment, today is May 1 and the streets cry out rights, self -employed must also be on that agenda,” said UATAE General Secretary, María José Landaburu.
Inequality against workers’
In a joint statement this Thursday, both organizations have wanted to raise their voice to remember that self -employment remains “in many cases” the great forgotten of the labor system.
Thus, they have claimed the right to work without precariousness, to have fair social protection and to live in decent conditions, with special attention to the situation that thousands of autonomous women live.
“Although the autonomous work represents more than 3 million people in the country, the reality is that it still does not enjoy rights comparable to those of salaried employment,” they denounced.
Access to casualties due to disease, recognition of unemployment (cessation of activity), insufficient pensions or the lack of real conciliation tools make undertake an act of survival rather than vocation, as they have argued.
This May 1, UATAE and Axi under the motto ‘Less lonely heroes, more collective rights’, are added to mobilizations throughout the country with the message of moving towards a new model where self -employed “are not treated as exceptions, but as workers and workers with rights.”
