The PCP considered this Friday that reaching the "historic maximum" of unemployment levels in the Algarve "reinforces the need to intensify the struggle for the resignation of the government and a change in policy."
In a press release, the Direction of the Regional Organization of the Algarve (DORAL) of the communists appealed to the workers to join the protest that the CGTP-IN scheduled for tomorrow, February 16th in Faro, Portimão and Vila Real de Santo António.
At issue are the data released on Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics referring to the Employment Survey for the 4th quarter of 2012, which “confirm the trend of worsening unemployment and destruction of employment in recent years and especially after the signing of the Aggression Pact that PS, PSD and CDS assumed with the European Union and the IMF».
“In the 4th quarter of 2012, unemployment in the narrow sense reached 923 workers (200 percent) and in the broad sense – a number closer to reality – 16,9 workers (1 percent). The Algarve region, in this context, is the area of the country where unemployment is highest, with a rate in the narrow sense of 443 percent and in the broad sense close to 900 percent, that is, more than 25,3 thousand workers in this situation» , illustrated the PCP/Algarve.
In addition to the unemployment figures, which reveal that "in the last 18 months 361 jobs were destroyed in Portugal", the communists consider impressive "the fact that the youth unemployment rate, despite their activity rate being much lower than the of the other age groups, it reached 200 percent and the fact that 40 percent of the unemployed have been unemployed for more than a year».
"The data now released proves that this Government and the right-wing policy are a machine for destroying jobs, creating unemployment and driving thousands and thousands of workers and families to misery and poverty," defended the PCP's DORAL.
The communists fear that the numbers will continue to slip and give examples of what can help to increase unemployment: «the set of redundancies already identified by local authorities – PS and PSD – as a result of agreements made with the Government; the vertiginous drop in public and private investment with impacts on Civil Construction; the closure of hundreds of small businesses – catering; hospitality; local market; car repair'.
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