Pedro Filipe Soares, leader of the parliamentary bench of the Left Bloc, will be in Faro this Friday, November 4th, at 21 pm, for a public session at Club Farense on the State Budget (OE) for 30 and its impact on the Algarve region.
The session was also attended by João Vasconcelos, deputy elected by the Algarve, and José Moreira, member of the Municipal Assembly of Faro, elected by BE.
With this public session, the Left Block opens the debate, started at the National Conference on October 22 in Lisbon, about the State Budget for 2017, to the entire population.
Claiming to assume «the limits of the parliamentary majority agreement to stop impoverishment», the Left Bloc says it recognizes «the achievements made and the importance of continuing the path that has been started».
According to BE, the agreement signed in 2015 "provided for measures to be implemented in the State Budgets for 2016 and 2017" and, for the Bloc, "the priority is to comply with the agreement, from the outset in urgent measures to recover income from work and pensions: relief of the tax burden on impoverished workers, through the increase of progressivity in the income tax brackets; thawing of the Social Support Index (IAS) as foreseen in the 2016 budget, to avoid its devaluation due to the effect of inflation; recovery of the value of the lowest pensions'.
The Bloc also defends that "the revision of privilege contracts and excessive rents, signed against the public interest in sectors such as health and energy, is central to guaranteeing the strengthening of the Welfare State and the reduction of energy costs for families."
On the other hand, according to the blocistas, «the precariousness of work in Portugal lowers wages, evades rights and exacerbates inequalities», defending, therefore, that «there is no sustained recovery of income from work without combating precariousness».
Hence, the Bloc considers that «compliance with the agreement to stop impoverishment requires measures beyond the strict sphere of the OE».
“A year ago, Bloco and PS established the starting points for the annual update of the National Minimum Wage (SMN), on its way to 600 euros in the course of the legislature. Thus, in January 2017, the SMN will not be below 557 euros».
This measure, stress the blocists, “must be accompanied by the reactivation of collective contracting, the enhancement of professions, careers and salaries, and the fight against permissiveness in the face of employer impunity that made abuse the norm. The passage of the law against forced labor must be continued, making companies responsible, limiting sub-contracting and the use of temporary work».
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