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Colombia, Congress reopened debate on Labor Reform
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10/18/2024
*Farmer’s organizations assured they will appeal to international bodies
*Citizens feel the country’s most vulnerable populations are being turned away
*Reform managed to advance in the second debate, although two debates are still pending
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In Colombia, the Congress reopened the debate on the labor reform as the opposition party
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succeeded in eliminating articles considered key, especially for the farmers.
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Let's see the details with our correspondent, Hernan Tovar.
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The opposition sectors in the Colombian Congress, represented by the right-wing party's Democratic
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Center and Radical Change, plus some members of the Green and traditional parties, were
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happy and celebrated the majority vote.
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They obtained to eliminate key articles of the labor reform that guarantees decent conditions
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for farmers.
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Some congressmen expressed their rejection of this attitude and the setback for Colombian
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farmers and their labor rights.
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It was a totally petty decision.
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There was a difference of seven votes.
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By seven votes, we lost so that the farmers could have the guarantee of an agricultural
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contract for a decent agricultural day's wage and the right to rural housing.
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We have lost the struggle that we have been fighting for a long time.
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This is the feudal thinking of those who want to keep rural workers in subhuman conditions
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in order to protect the interests of large landowners and large industrialists who have
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taken advantage of the land and agricultural labor in our country.
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The articles eliminated were related to the guarantee of social benefits and an employment
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contract backed by a legal minimum wage, in addition to having decent conditions for their
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daily performance.
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The peasant organizations have already assured that they will resort to international bodies
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to ensure and respect these rights that the opposition sectors and large associated unions
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want to disregard.
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We are going to denounce this to the International Labor Organization because it is really an
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alarming situation in the Colombian case.
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The levels of poverty in the countryside and this denial of these three fundamental rights
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of the three Articles 31, 32, 33 will further aggravate the life situations of rural workers.
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In the street, the opinion of citizens does not differ with respect to the rejection generated
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by the actions of the opposition in the Congress, considering that the most vulnerable populations
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of the country are being turned away.
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Young people are leaving the countryside because there are no guarantees, and now that
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a guarantee was sought with this reform, there was none.
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So there will be migration of young people to the cities, and we will have more criminality.
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We must base the right to work, which is an inalienable right at international level.
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Despite this context, the reform finally managed to advance in the second debate in
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the House of Representatives, although two more debates are still pending in the Senate.
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For their part, the congressmen who are the rapporteurs hope that these points can be
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taken up again in the discussion and keep them alive for the remainder of the Colombian
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legislature.
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